Example sentences of "[vb past] to have [been] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | July nineteen eighty eight escape from prison at with one other a Mr believed to have been a white Mercedes lorry near the prison . |
| 2 | My mother-in-law 's death , seemed to have been a long , lingering and painful end , bravely borne . |
| 3 | There seemed to have been a real shift from the closed systems of resource allocation that tended to exist before devolution , systems where a person , usually the head , made all the decision about capitation . |
| 4 | The only thing that stuck out in a day that seemed to have been a hundred hours of confusion was that nun . |
| 5 | She seemed to have been a reasonable kind of mother to Jenny ; at least she had n't stimulated any of the strong resentments which seemed to lie uneasily dormant in most daughters , especially those very fond of their fathers . |
| 6 | And the spies all seemed to have been the clumsy types , exposed and expelled almost at once . |
| 7 | In the latest in a series of incidents , an animal grazing on Mithian Downs , near St Agnes , Cornwall , was wounded on its forehead by what appeared to have been a sharp instrument . |
| 8 | The small obstacle which he had feared appeared to have been a groundless worry . |
| 9 | The daughter told her mother and , said Mr Stevenson , that appeared to have been the last straw for her . |
| 10 | The embryonic plot appeared to have been an amateurish operation which did not pose a serious threat to the government . |
| 11 | This plan came to grief , however , when Waters , in an attempt to establish friendly relations , gave a prospective producer a copy of one of his books , which showed the idiosyncratic director palling up with one of Charles Manson 's gang — a gesture which was in even worse taste than it might sound , as the producer proved to have been a good friend of one of the gang 's victims . |
| 12 | Originally there was considerable variety among the cattle of Wales , which at one time included the Glamorgan , said to have been an ancient breed of doubtful origin , possibly partly Norman or from a Devon cross . |
| 13 | However unbelievable , it had to have been the little mestizo . |
| 14 | With his deeply ingrained Catholic convictions and his belief in his role as God 's warrior , Franco could not tolerate what he considered to have been a religious and moral , as well as a political , betrayal . |