Example sentences of "[adj] to have [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hindsight may show this to have been a pivotal meeting . |
| 2 | It ca n't have been easy to have been a good Muslim in Cheltenham , thought Robert ! |
| 3 | ‘ Atropine is confirmed , and far too much to have been a slight slip of the deadly nightshade . |
| 4 | She was a national leader in the W.C.T.U. ( Women 's Christian Temperance Union ) but in spite of her reputation for being austere , dogmatic and old-fashioned , I considered myself fortunate to have been a personal friend of Nellie McClung . |
| 5 | Indeed in the circumstances in which he found the community there is likely to have been a good deal of disorder . |
| 6 | Akrotiri was built in about 1550 BC ( Late Minoan IA ) and is likely to have been a Minoan foundation . |
| 7 | Family restriction , by cutting down on labour costs , accelerated middle-class living standards , and this seems likely to have been a major contributory factor to decisions to limit family size . |
| 8 | It appears that severity of illness or disability is likely to have been a critical variable , and in cases of severe disability , health would have been an overriding consideration . |
| 9 | The hand-loom weaver on the eve of his long decline was much more likely to have been a Methodist than was the mule spinner of the new generation proletariat . |
| 10 | Nor is this likely to have been a novel feature of the tenth and eleventh centuries , whose rulers were building on traditions of public authority already old . |
| 11 | It is just as likely to have been a Turkish Cypriot farmer moving too far south . |
| 12 | Abimelech , the Philistine king ( 26:1 ) : the name is probably a family or throne-name , this is therefore likely to have been a later king than the one Abraham encountered ( 20–21 ) . |
| 13 | Deprived after Nechtansmere of the land and tribute from the Picts and Irish which probably underlay such power , Northumbria is likely to have been a poorer as well as a less dominant kingdom . |
| 14 | Faint praise for what was supposed to have been a serious scientific work ! |
| 15 | Predictably , the survey showed 1992 to have been a flat year for the UK 's information technology businesses . |
| 16 | This reflects the fact that the commodities boom was highly generalized , and therefore unlikely to have been a freak coincidence of very different developments in different markets . |
| 17 | They conclude that there must be less than 5 x unc monopoles per sq.cm per steradian per second in the vicinity of the Earth , and that ‘ the Cabrera candidate is unlikely to have been a true monopole -induced event . ’ |
| 18 | On the debit side , there is unlikely to have been a significant shift of travel in such a small town from cars towards public transport or indeed towards the bicycle . |
| 19 | My next book was due to have been a literary novel but that 's been put back in the top drawer . |
| 20 | The presence of a very occasional lesser white-fronted goose from Scandinavia on the reclaimed land of the Severn is well-known to have been a crucial factor in Sir Peter Scott 's choice of site for the new wildfowl refuge and research station he had dreamed of creating during the War . |