Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] to have [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cool-headed and light-hearted about life , Zeelenberg is not the sort of man to have been worried by the doubters . |
| 2 | Although it seems in actuality to have been common enough , the empty hearth or inadequate smoking fuel , like Alice Wilson 's ‘ damp coals , and half-green sticks ’ , is a poignant symbol in the novel , suggestive of every kind of deprivation . |
| 3 | The voting seems in fact to have been orderly , though claims made about the plan were plainly false . |
| 4 | There would seem in retrospect to have been two primary reasons . |
| 5 | From the earliest weeks , euphoria about military success was quickly dissipated by the economic restrictions and the material impact on daily life , even though , compared with the later years of the war , these appear in retrospect to have been minor forms of interference . |