Example sentences of "[vb base] to have [been] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The small market town area ( see map ) is to the east of the parish , and this , together with the high ground south of the river and the tiny hamlets of Steeple and Dogbury Valent , all appear to have been the sites of pre-Conquest settlement . |
| 2 | As far as the kadiliks are concerned , the original mevleviyet kadiliks appear to have been the kadiliks of the three Ottoman capitals , Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa , this number being increased in the first Instance through the acquisition of other important cities by conquest or other means . |
| 3 | Some general stimuli seem to have been the persistence of higher birth rates in rural areas ( which meant pressure on land ) , the attractions of city life , better public transport , which made it easier for cities to recruit labour from a wider area , and , above all , the creation of employment as industry grew up near supplies of raw materials and important transport centres . |
| 4 | The fruit-eating primates of Africa seem to have been the origin of the human stock , one way or another , whether the immediate ancestors were derived from an Asiatic ‘ Homo erectus ’ or not . |
| 5 | Only Jean de Grilly ( seneschal 1266–8 ) and Thomas de Ippegrave , clerk of Edward 's household ( 1268–9 ) , seem to have been the results of Edward 's own personal choice . |
| 6 | Such times are unusual , yet they do occur ; with hindsight , they often seem to have been the result of the right combination of people , time and place . |
| 7 | To understand the meaning of the Investiture Contest for the men of the early twelfth century , prior to the pontificate of Innocent III and his successors , we have to remember that the issues were not settled in the way which we now know to have been the outcome . |
| 8 | Yet a casino is exactly what many bosses , politicians and pundits believe to have been the home of Anglo-American corporate finance in the past five years or more : a den of greed and chance in which the only way to win is to fix the roulette wheel . |