Example sentences of "[adj] to have be the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It seems that new recruits were likely to have been the spies of political opponents or officers of the Special Branch . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As we have said before ; horses high in aggression are more likely to have been the survivors during the processes of evolution . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I expect you know that November 1st is supposed to have been the start of the Celtic year . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This unrest is sometimes seen in terms of the class war , but strictly speaking this is unlikely to have been the case , since the rebels appear to have included dispossessed aristocrats . |
| 14 | But the portrait that has been drawn of respectable women rising from the marriage bed to insert the sponge or to draw the condom over the ‘ burning machine ’ , seems unlikely to have been the norm . |
| 15 | Catholicism is unlikely to have been the key to Clovis 's success . |
| 16 | The aerosol device is unlikely to have been the cause . |
| 17 | She was not proud to have been the cause of splitting her family up ; nor could she forget how her father 's love had turned to disgust ; and how could she easily reveal the shame which she had brought down on the Wards ? |
| 18 | It would have been nice to have been the mother of Ben 's child . |
| 19 | As for Lydia , she was satisfied to have been the centre of attention for one day in her life . |