Example sentences of "[vb past] to have be a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All we are left with are a few opening chapters ( published as Coots in the North , edited by Hugh Brogan ) , and notes towards an encounter between two sets of pirates , the Death and Glories and the Amazons , which promised to have been a battle royal . |
| 2 | It seemed to have been a place of school and tennis , of clubs and tennis . |
| 3 | Millett J had to deal with the argument that it would be a breach of the covenant if the defendant were during the remainder of the period of restraint , to solicit any business of any kind from any company which happened to have been a customer of the plaintiff company during the relevant period . |
| 4 | She professed to have been a cook in a house where I was once governess . |
| 5 | He admitted to have been a virgin at twenty-two . |
| 6 | There appeared to have been a possibility that , contrary to correct practice , financial information had passed between the two men . |
| 7 | Except that there appeared to have been a miscalculation — one which Rostov himself did not yet understand — so that the pod was now heading unscathed for the outer atmosphere of Tarvaras . |