Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] have been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope these problems wo n't discourage your company from continuing to run the service , which I hope has been a success this year . |
| 2 | I happen to have been a keen supporter of the way of Margaret Thatcher 's attitude to Europe , highly sceptical . |
| 3 | ‘ I seem to have been a shock to a number of people . |
| 4 | SEEKING information on Peter Roberts , who I believe to have been a bomber pilot during World War Two . |
| 5 | Personally , I sincerely hope that we will be able to continue with these open lectures , which I think have been a significant feature of the university 's life and of our relationships with the community . |
| 6 | That I did had been a 45 year fantasy come true . ’ |
| 7 | He , from the papers I found there , I deduced to have been an academic of some kind . |
| 8 | Clearly outlined was the oval shape of the perimeter of what I suspected had been a professionally-built concrete pool , now filled in — for what reason I ca n't imagine . |
| 9 | All we are left with are a few opening chapters ( published as Coots in the North , edited by Hugh Brogan ) , and notes towards an encounter between two sets of pirates , the Death and Glories and the Amazons , which promised to have been a battle royal . |
| 10 | Millett J had to deal with the argument that it would be a breach of the covenant if the defendant were during the remainder of the period of restraint , to solicit any business of any kind from any company which happened to have been a customer of the plaintiff company during the relevant period . |
| 11 | One prominent scholar of Italian paintings believes that the National Gallery was ill served by the loan which seems to have been a rather persuasive pre-sale exhibition for the benefit of Lady Cook . |
| 12 | Only from roughly the middle of the tenth/sixteenth century-perhaps coincidentally with the building of two other medreses which were to form part of the altmisli class , namely that attached to the mosque built by Suleyman for his son , Sehzade Mehmed ( the Sehzade medrese , completed in 954/1547 ) , and that built by the same sultan for his father , Selim I , apparently around 955/1548 — can one discern in the biographical sources the existence of a class of medreses , comprising these and others , one rank higher than the Sahn and normally carrying a salary of 60 akce , teaching in one of which seems to have been a generally recognized prerequisite for the holding of the highest learned offices . |
| 13 | From the evidence of the biographical sources , this would appear to be a nearly complete list of the mevleviyet kadiliks of the time ; the only surprising omission is the kadilik of Mecca , which seems to have been a mevleviyet for some years before 963 . |
| 14 | The list included the JONA 22 self-launching aircraft which appears to have been an Italian invention — did it ever get to the production or prototype stage ? |
| 15 | She seemed to have been a reasonable kind of mother to Jenny ; at least she had n't stimulated any of the strong resentments which seemed to lie uneasily dormant in most daughters , especially those very fond of their fathers . |
| 16 | There is also a European tradition that precedes the work of Tamm , associated with the name of Bogdanovskaya-Gienef ( 1926 ) who seems to have been a pupil of Sukatschev and to have influenced the reductionist approach to ecology later developed by Rabotnov , Uranov and their pupils in Russia . |
| 17 | Others were sent by servants to families ; this series was written in 1911–12 by George Comfort who seems to have been a gardener at Buscot Park in Oxfordshire in its heyday . |
| 18 | There is Barnabas , who used to be a rich , landowning Cypriot Levite : Symeon , called ‘ Swarthy ’ , who seems to have been a Negro ; Lucius of Cyrene , no doubt a Jew from the dispersion in North Africa ; Manaen , who was educated in court circles alongside Herod the tetrarch ; and Saul of Tarsus , the Jew from the Levant who had studied under Gamaliel . |
| 19 | If it is not , a claim could be made for his nephew , Richard Roos , esquire ( 1429– ? 1493 ) , a correspondent of the Pastons , who seems to have been a respected figure , but was never knighted . |
| 20 | Rolle died at the height of the plague , but his reputation as a loved spiritual counsellor survived him — probably furthered by his disciple William Stopes who seems to have been a young religious and acted as Rolle 's literary executor after his death . |
| 21 | Peter Shaffer has only the fondest memories of a performer who appears to have been a playwright 's delight . |
| 22 | She seems to have been a shrewd , sensible young woman , vivacious , quick-witted , with no illusions , no sentimentality , no dreams |
| 23 | She seems to have been a stern mother ( she was always a deeply reserved woman ) who mellowed when she became a grandmother . |
| 24 | She seems to have been a girl who drifted into relationships because she did n't like upsetting people . |
| 25 | She professed to have been a cook in a house where I was once governess . |
| 26 | ‘ You have to have been a variety artist or a dependant , ’ says Elliott , formerly a dancer and the late Dick Emery 's manager . |
| 27 | [ Ch 14 ] It is with a more elaborate example of this type of fanciful similitude that the impersonal " Dickens " introduces Mrs Rouncewell : She is a fine old lady , handsome , stately , wonderfully neat , and has such a back , and such a stomacher that if her stays should turn out when she dies to have been a broad old-fashioned family fire-grate , nobody who knows her would have cause to be surprised . |
| 28 | Heather and I had the large front room on the right of the entrance , which we understood had been a music room , and where Byron , in a temper had thrown an ink bottle at a maid . |
| 29 | There seemed to have been a real shift from the closed systems of resource allocation that tended to exist before devolution , systems where a person , usually the head , made all the decision about capitation . |
| 30 | The second Lady Deverill , having pulled her horse off Hullabaloo at the last minute , leaving herself just enough time to put him right at the ditch and hedge , did n't even bother to stop and admire her handiwork before riding on up the hill to rejoin the hunt and tell her husband that there seemed to have been a rather fearful accident . |