Example sentences of "[adv] to have been a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She was n't clean enough to have been a harem girl . |
| 2 | And Ann , till the very end , seems somehow to have been a member of no chapel and yet of every chapel ; here she was , being afforded a burial service by courtesy of the Badcox congregation , yet being laid claim to at the same time by a neighbouring Dissenting church : Sheppards Barton Baptist Chapel registers include the entry : ‘ Anne Titford . |
| 3 | In one important sense , however , it is questionable whether they yet constituted a distinct class of medreses in this period , namely that teaching in one or another of them appears not to have been a prerequisite for the holding of the highest mevleviyets . |
| 4 | One of his mills was probably the largest in the country by the 1880s , though it seems not to have been a paper-mill when he acquired it . |
| 5 | The twelve paintings are remarkable for being executed on canvas when normally such representations were in fresco , but Ribera is known not to have been a fresco painter . |
| 6 | Ceolred is said not to have been a son of Osthryth , so that if he were the son of Aethelred by a subsequent marriage after Osthryth 's death , he would have been aged only about 10 or 11 at his accession . |
| 7 | As already noted the Car Dike , north of Peterborough is now known not to have been a canal but a Roman catch-water drain . |
| 8 | He seems also to have been a Zadokite — but does this mean that the Nazareans and the Zadokites were one and the same ? |
| 9 | He was not necessarily landless : he seems often to have been a smallholder , with land insufficient of itself to support him . |
| 10 | What may look like a straightforward affirmation of harmony between Christianity and science may turn out to have been a counter in a dialogue between new and entrenched religious positions . |
| 11 | This appears simply to have been a trick on the part of the attorney , and not evidence that Rothbury was known to have been corrupt . |
| 12 | But Fermi requires there to have been a change of sign . |
| 13 | I mean that Christianity proclaims there to have been a revelation of God in history . |
| 14 | A person 's membership of the committee is automatically terminated : ( i ) if he becomes bankrupt ( his trustee replaces him ) or he compounds with his creditors ; ( ii ) if he is not present or represented at three consecutive meetings ( unless at the third meeting it is resolved that this rule will not apply ) ; and ( iii ) if he ceases to be or is found never to have been a creditor ( r 6.158 ) . |