Example sentences of "[verb] have [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | One of the most beautiful water-spirits known , Lorelei is said to have been a German girl who was unlucky in love and drowned herself as a result . |
| 32 | Even the most innovatory feature of the Declaration — the proviso against keeping a standing army in peace-time without Parliamentary consent — can be seen to have been a Tory concern in James 's reign . |
| 33 | Naturally , the manager had more details to offer : the car hired had been a red Cavalier , Registration H 106 XMT ; it had been hired at 1.45 p.m. and returned at some time after the offices had closed at 6.30 p.m. , with the keys pushed through the special letter-box , as requested . |
| 34 | The quickness with which smut has reappeared has been a sobering experience for many agriculturalists and serves as a warning that problems which have apparently disappeared may still lie just below the surface . |
| 35 | I can not claim to have been a close friend , but I had occasional encounters with him and , as with most people , it would be more accurate to describe them as occasional brushes . |
| 36 | He can honestly claim to have been a righteous servant of God ; in verse 16 he writes of his service being like that of a priest , who bridges the gap between God and man , and who presents a sacrifice to God as part of the priest 's duties and privileges . |
| 37 | He is alleged to have been a key figure in virtually all aspects of the Guinness affair . |
| 38 | This factor was thought to have been a key reason for Souter 's nomination , as Bush was eager to avoid repeating the divisive — and ultimately unsuccessful — struggle for Senate endorsement which had marked Reagan 's 1987 attempt to appoint the conservative Robert Bork [ see p. 35701 ] . |
| 39 | An expensive colour photocopier is believed to have been used by the forgers to copy what is thought to have been a genuine blank MOT form . |
| 40 | The care which bereaved Minoans sometimes lavished on their dead suggests a belief in the AFTERLIFE , and the idea of an Elysium , a pleasant Heaven awaiting people at the end of their earthly lives , is thought to have been a Minoan creation . |
| 41 | The popular response to Luchembe 's broadcasts , however , was thought to have been a severe personal blow to Kaunda , the " father of the nation " . |
| 42 | However , what is thought to have been a discarded movement , a Gavotte in B flat major , K.300 , survives in autograph ( PLATE V ) . |
| 43 | I happen to have been a keen supporter of the way of Margaret Thatcher 's attitude to Europe , highly sceptical . |
| 44 | If one takes the views of the architects explicitly asked this question in the AMERG survey then the reforms seem to have been a mixed blessing ( 42 per cent thinking them to be beneficial and 29 per cent not to be ) . |
| 45 | Trading forecasts On this there does not , at least , seem to have been a great internal dispute . |
| 46 | ‘ Your interviews seem to have been a great success , ’ said Melissa casually as she helped herself to cheese . |
| 47 | Naturally , he took a great interest in horse-shoeing , and horseshoes seem to have been a main interest in his continental journeys– He had a great fondness for the application of setons , particularly in cases of lameness — a curious lapse for such a humane man . |
| 48 | On Aug. 3 police in south-west France arrested Stanislao Villanueva Herrera ( also known as Txapu ) whom the authorities claimed had been a leading figure in ETA since the arrests of other leaders in March [ see p. 38823-24 ] . |
| 49 | And of all the single ticks that have come in , there 's bound to have been a decent one among them . |
| 50 | A Deputy Prime Minister from 1969 to 1973 and leading francophone socialist , Cools had been a major force in Belgian politics in the 1960s and 1970s , helping to shape the decentralization of the country 's state structure . |
| 51 | But by and large you feel his career has been a gentle cruise . |
| 52 | The very minimum I think these justices should have had was a psychiatric report from one of the psychiatrists who were attached to the secure unit . |
| 53 | In the year preceding School F's invitation to participate , the head led a campaign to improve the physical environment in what appears to have been a concerted effort to convince the local authority of the high priority given by the school to its library . |
| 54 | There appears to have been a general feeling among them that there was no real problem on this score . |
| 55 | In the first few years of the informal concordat under the RAC , there appears to have been a tacit agreement that in Cambridgeshire the WEA attempted to provide few courses , largely it is thought because of its financial problems . |
| 56 | There appears to have been a greater interest in orthogenesis in the earlier part of this century and writers such as Berg considered the subject in some depth . |
| 57 | These civil service pension arrangements were in due course copied , with modifications , by other public and private sector employers , though up to World War I it appears to have been a small minority of mainly the more prestigious employers who developed such formal occupational pension provision . |
| 58 | They coincided with what appears to have been a sharp last-minute swing to the Tories — a swing of between 2 and 4 per cent in the final week of the campaign . |
| 59 | There appears to have been a colonnaded pronaos in front with a wide intercolumniation . |
| 60 | Sympathisers of the Mujahideen , who are denounced as ‘ hypocrites ’ by Teheran for their attempt to weld Marxist and Islamic ideology , later rampaged through several Iranian embassies in what appears to have been a co-ordinated raid . |