Example sentences of "[verb] to have be [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curtis was staring at the bloodstained shirt , ‘ I suppose it has to have been a firearm , sir ? ’ |
| 2 | What one needs and has to have is a reaction . |
| 3 | This was considered to have been a miracle , and the statue of Our Lady of Monte now stands in the centre of the high altar of the church in Monte . |
| 4 | The exercise was reported to have been a success , with 12,000,000 people registering , and voting for party officials and delegates in more than 5,000 local ward elections took place on May 26 , using an open ballot system . |
| 5 | Subsequently he is reported to have been a pupil of his cousin George Wilfred Anthony , a drawing master in Manchester , later a landscape painter and art critic ( as ‘ Gabriel Tinto ’ ) for the Manchester Guardian . |
| 6 | In other words , X was deemed to have been a buyer ‘ in possession ’ and deemed to have delivered the car to the innocent purchaser . |
| 7 | The date specified in the affidavit will be the date deemed to have been the date of service unless the court otherwise orders . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In this respect the article would appear to have been a success . |
| 10 | The development would appear to have been a success and for the winter timetable an early morning Aberystwyth to Birmingham train will run daily . |
| 11 | Lack of academic training does not appear to have been a handicap for Roddick . |
| 12 | I am sorry to say this , but there would appear to have been a number of houses in recent times , some of the highest pedigree , which have tended to take a competitive attitude towards each other and have not been above ‘ showing off ’ to guests a butler 's mastery of such trivial accomplishments . |
| 13 | He said there did not appear to have been a break-in . |
| 14 | There does not appear to have been an account taken of the of the factors that may reduce traffic on the A sixty one er and ways of ameliorating the current problems on the road which are not just a question of the volumes , but in fact the timescale it takes in fact to clear that road in the mornings . |
| 15 | The earliest place of worship would appear to have been the chantry , constructed , it is said , as early as 1332 and rumoured to have had a secret passage running to Mere House . |
| 16 | Although the case of a limitation upon , or condition precedent to a right to serve a notice to quit , does not appear to have been the subject of judicial decision , his principle that , if a covenant affects a landlord qua landlord , it must necessarily run with the reversion , appears to me a sound criterion … |
| 17 | Although Bracton alleged that the rape of non-virgins was also punishable , this does not appear to have been the practice of the courts . |
| 18 | First commissions could be obtained through political interest , and this would appear to have been the situation of Philip Hay , whom Admiral Lord Keith managed to place in the 11th Foot as an ensign on the strength of imaginary past service , though his patron remarked that ‘ if his father can not get at old General Grant or Lady Sutherland he may not be confirmed . |
| 19 | This in fact repeats more generally what was stated with regard to environmental competence by Article 130R(4) of the EEC Treaty , inserted by the Single European Act , under which ‘ the Community shall take action relating to the environment to the extent to which the objectives … can be attained better at Community level than at the level of the individual Member States ’ , a provision which does not yet appear to have been the object of scrutiny by the European Court of Justice . |
| 20 | It seemed to have been a place of school and tennis , of clubs and tennis . |
| 21 | On Radio Warsaw in December 1952 WIN was revealed to have been a puppet of the KGB since it was revived in 1948 . |
| 22 | The environment is said to have been a lagoon , and the ‘ shrimp band ’ is thought to represent an episode of sudden flooding by the sea . |
| 23 | The main London to Exeter ‘ road ’ was said to have been a quarter of a mile wide by the end of the winter where it crossed — or rather plunged through — the sticky morass of the chalk on Salisbury Plain . |
| 24 | Moore is said to have been a pioneer in producing a periodical for seamen , the Mariners ' Journal , which was published briefly between 185I and 1854 , and to have advocated the first system of paid shore based officials to look after the interests of their members while they were at sea . |
| 25 | Donationes mortis causa may be said to have been an anomaly in our law , both for their immunity to the Statute of Frauds 1677 and the Wills Act 1837 and as exceptions to the rule that equity will not perfect an imperfect gift . |
| 26 | Strongly associated with industry and growth , his gift to the people was said to have been the pick-axe , and his likeness was often placed by a new roadway or building . |
| 27 | Adam is said to have been the herald of the Taurean Age ( the age of the bull which gives life ) , while Abraham began the Age of Aries ( sacrificing the ram instead of his son ) . |
| 28 | This is said to have been the scene of the Faroese legend of the eagle and the baby . |
| 29 | Stein is often said to have been the inventor of the escapement for the German action . |
| 30 | In a field on the north side of the A758 Ayr/Mauchline road , about a mile west of Failford , there is the site of a tumulus that is said to have been the burial place of King Coilus . |