Example sentences of "[adv] to have be [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew she was lucky not to have been cut in half by a razor-edged cardoor playing frisbee . |
| 2 | Our room appeared not to have been inhabited in living memory . |
| 3 | Consequently , sociological positivism can be criticized for giving the impression of setting out to demonstrate scientifically the truth of an approach which seemed already to have been assumed in the way the terms were defined . |
| 4 | You 'd 've been better off to have been booked in here for a good night 's sleep and then driven up the next day but then you 're virtually sort of getting up there turning round and coming back are n't you ? |
| 5 | The dewar is the largest ever to have been flown in space , although smaller devices operate successfully . |
| 6 | Drake , on the other hand , the piratical darling of Good Queen Bess , returned from a transglobal raiding adventure with a holdful of Indonesian spices , and paraded through the streets with his crew bedecked in the captured finery of the most astounding oriental silks and damasks ever to have been seen in England . |
| 7 | Fluid flow turbulence , in contrast , is far too pervasive ever to have been regarded in this way . |
| 8 | Keepers there gave them a bijou penthouse , an extensive garden and pretty soon they 'd sealed their union with a cub : one of very few ever to have been born in captivity . |
| 9 | I can still remember the intense excitement of ‘ listening in ’ to pre-war Nationals on Friday afternoons that , many years later , seem always to have been bathed in bright spring sunshine . |
| 10 | A total of seven people were reported so far to have been killed in similar circumstances . |
| 11 | For example , it included costs which ought more properly to have been included in their bill relating to the divorce proceedings , in which they were acting for the father . |
| 12 | Weinberger was the highest-ranking former official yet to have been indicted in connection with the Iran-contra affair . |
| 13 | Earlier in the month Meese , a senior member of the campaign team , had issued the most comprehensive denial yet to have been made in connection with the affair . |