Example sentences of "[adj] to have be [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 799 Ealdorman Moll , whose name may have family associations , was killed by the urgent orders of King Eardwulf ; and Ealhmund , said by some to have been a son of King Alhred , was seized by Eardwulf 's men and put to death in 800 . |
| 2 | Passing the crag rats who were climbing Cave Route Right Hand , I climbed my own bit of grade E6 over the tufa and out past the block of stone with a hole eroded through that is said by some to have been the lip of a water chute when the chasm was a cave . |
| 3 | Dr Buchanan has shown this to have been the case with the Bath Turnpike Trust where it had become crucial by the end of the eighteenth century when the share of the landed interest had dropped below 10 per cent . |
| 4 | The second amount bore a twofold significance , since a statute of the previous century stipulated a minimum of £20 per annum for justices of the peace , while two of the sumptuary acts evidently assumed this to have been the minimum for any gentleman by defining a class ‘ under the degree of gentlemen ’ , including university graduates , having £10 a year in lands or £100 in goods — a clear reference , it would seem , to merchants . |
| 5 | Too unsettled to have been a torturer . |
| 6 | I think L was very fortunate to have been a child in the days when children could roam in woods and fields , unafraid , and when doors could be left unlocked ; when there was less traffic , less noise and less hectic rush . |
| 7 | Schools did lose staff but it seems more likely to have been a reflection of the generally low level of teachers ' pay at a time of full employment . |
| 8 | When she returned to Jedburgh that evening she was in great pain from what is likely to have been a haemorrhage , of which she had suffered several since her son 's birth . |
| 9 | And it would balance her table , thought Mair , although that was hardly likely to have been a consideration . |
| 10 | The erection of a large shrine as an imposing architectural feature is not unusual in the Roman world , although the only other example in Britain appears to be the extraordinary octagonal structure at Lufton , identified as a ‘ cold plunge ’ but more likely to have been a shrine associated with a water cult . |
| 11 | Well yes I mean it 's it 's it 's more likely to have been a muscle than anything else , with pain that comes and goes . |
| 12 | We can assume that Jacques not only played the oboe but was also likely to have been a woodwind maker , as was his brother , Jean , who is noted in the Livre commode ( 1692 ) as being among the most highly regarded master makers of woodwinds . |
| 13 | The laboratory 's opinion , though , is that the incident was more likely to have been an attempt to make the researchers there look a bit silly . |
| 14 | This is likely to have been the case with the final dinosaur group evolving from the small types such as Psittacosaurus , or the parrot-type reptiles such as the heavily built quadruped ceratopsians . |
| 15 | The major problems you will have encountered in preparing the consolidated profit and loss account are likely to have been the calculation of the unrealised profit provisions and the minority interest . |
| 16 | The occasion of Wulfhere 's intervention in Surrey is likely to have been the death of King Ecgberht , which appears to have been followed by an interregnum or at least a contested succession . |
| 17 | He went into the London Clinic for three weeks and after X-rays , blood tests and cardiographic treatment it was discovered that the disorder had no organic origin — its source was essentially a nervous one and seemed likely to have been the result of over-exertion and worry . |
| 18 | The very good performance of division reported in some cases ( Lum , Yuen and Dodd , Severance and Duhne ) , and relatively poor performance in others ( Kaimann ) , is likely to have been the result of few or many clashes of this kind . |
| 19 | A small islet at the other end of the loch is supposed to have been a prison . |
| 20 | This bayonet is supposed to have been a murder weapon . |
| 21 | This was supposed to have been the event where he at last assumed his rightful position at the summit of the athletics world following his nightmare at the Olympics . |
| 22 | The alluvial marsh was supposed to have been the site of an ancient royal swannery , and to have contributed the first syllable to the name Swanwic , mentioned in Domesday , though Old English ‘ swan ’ appears to derive from swineherd . |
| 23 | Brampton was supposed to have been the culprit but , due to chance and circumstances , we have ascertained he was innocent , and he , too , was murdered , though it was made to look like suicide . |
| 24 | I expect you know that November 1st is supposed to have been the start of the Celtic year . |
| 25 | The previous crime was supposed to have been an assault . ’ |
| 26 | Looking immaculate in a bright red suit she said : ‘ I have been looking forward to this moment for a long time and I am glad to have been a part of it . ’ |
| 27 | To have found no space for Scott , Kant , Gibbon , Pushkin , Copernicus , Boyle , Pope , Nietzsche and Racine will seem to many to have been an impertinence . |
| 28 | In the middle of a prime corn-growing district , Chichester is unlikely to have been a centre of putting out ; high wages there probably showed the influence of a craft-based manufacture , though on too small a scale to have any marked effect on the level and distribution of wealth . |
| 29 | Brown and Birley ( 1968 ) found 46 per cent of their sample of schizophrenic patients to have experienced an independent life event ( one unlikely to have been a consequence of the previous illness ) in the three weeks before onset , compared to 14 per cent of a comparison group of factory and office workers in the three weeks prior to their interview . |
| 30 | It is unlikely to have been the work of Asclepiodatus , who can scarcely have worked for Chlothar before 613 , given his association with Childebert II , and is equally unlikely to have been active after that date . |