Example sentences of "[adj] to have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It ca n't have been easy to have been a good Muslim in Cheltenham , thought Robert ! |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Indeed in the circumstances in which he found the community there is likely to have been a good deal of disorder . |
4 | Akrotiri was built in about 1550 BC ( Late Minoan IA ) and is likely to have been a Minoan foundation . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | It is just as likely to have been a Turkish Cypriot farmer moving too far south . |
10 | 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 ) . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | But the massive post-election bomb in London is likely to have been an each-way bet planned well in advance . |
13 | In the two volunteers reported to have HLA-B35 this octamer is likely to have been the minimal epitope . |
14 | In the context of the current study the relevant distractor items are likely to have been the other exemplars of a particular junction . |
15 | This is likely to have been the lower valve , and fossils are sometimes found in ‘ life position ’ , which confirms this . |
16 | Dornford Lane is much more likely to have been the former main road into Woodstock from Banbury which developed after 1154–74 , when Woodstock was founded as a royal town by Henry II . |
17 | Although the combination of recession and high interest rates is likely to have been the main cause of this rise in defaults , the much more moderate increase in company failures and mortgage arrears which accompanied the more severe downturn and higher interest rates of 1980–81 period suggests that other factors may also have been important . |
18 | If the criminal was the same in each case , was not the motive likely to have been the same ? |
19 | I consider myself highly privileged to have been the first Minister for consumer protection in a completely independent consumer protection Department . |
20 | Faint praise for what was supposed to have been a serious scientific work ! |
21 | It is believed that long before it became a market town , serving a largely agricultural community , it was the ancient Roman port of Vannona , which was supposed to have been the principal harbour on this coast . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . ’ |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Atrophic gastritis was found in three of our patients and is therefore unlikely to have been an important factor in our study . |
26 | ‘ The alleyway is so remote that it is unlikely to have been an opportunist crime , ’ Chief Inspetor Graham said . |
27 | Whoever they were , Ulf and Eglaf are unlikely to have been the prime movers in the attack on Cnut . |
28 | These are unlikely to have been the only offices in the gift of the chief steward and the total may have been substantial . |
29 | The aim of the measure may also have been financial , because the Crown was empowered to distrain for half of the profits resulting from the enclosure ; it was not , however , an easy way to raise money , so it is unlikely to have been the only reason for the Act . |
30 | These are unlikely to have been the only offices in the gift of the chief steward and the total may have been substantial . |