Example sentences of "[noun] to have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are enough good , specific reference sources available these days for the captions to have been a great deal more informative ; even at this very reasonable price the reader has a right to expect less of the hard work to be left up to him . |
| 2 | Professor Glanville Williams sees the reason for the extended rule to have been an early uncertainty as to the nature of a joint and several obligation : see Joint Obligations , p. 135 . |
| 3 | The point that the king was out hunting is not insignificant : hunting was an appropriate pastime for kings , and Guntram is known from Gregory to have been a keen huntsman . |
| 4 | In the 30-plus years since I started my CIT life as a student , I have found the many local and national meetings and lectures to have been a valuable way of giving and receiving information and help . |
| 5 | Constanza would have liked Simon to have been a conscientious objector . |
| 6 | For the US or Britain to have been the first to recognize Bao Dai would , said Acheson , have been to give him the kiss of death . |
| 7 | According to one commentator , the IS staff themselves appear to have considered their project-based approach to have been the only piece of real teaching going on . |
| 8 | Again , given the story 's setting and plot , it would have been easy for an insular national chauvinism to have been the prevailing tone . |
| 9 | His doubted claims to have been the greatest mountaineer of his generation have foundation in fact , despite the hostility which existed between him and the English Alpine Club . |
| 10 | Medical Officer for Brighton and later to the Local Government Board , where he championed statistical inquiries into infant mortality , Newsholme felt the evangelical revival of the late nineteenth century to have been a potent factor in the social hygiene movement . |
| 11 | Our daughter wanted me ( Dave ) to preach at the funeral because she said , ‘ I do n't want my brother 's death to have been a total loss . |
| 12 | In the late tenth century Sigeric archbishop of Canterbury went to Rome to receive his scarf of office , the pallium of lambs ' wool which was the mark of an archbishop ; and this seems at that time to have been an immemorial custom of very recent origin . |
| 13 | The resulting film , Royal Family ( or ‘ Corgi and Beth ’ as it was nicknamed ) , in which , among other things , the Queen was shown cooking the steaks at a barbecue , was revolutionary in its revelations , and considered inside the Palace to have been a public relations triumph . |