Example sentences of "[vb pp] to have be a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was considered to have been a miracle , and the statue of Our Lady of Monte now stands in the centre of the high altar of the church in Monte . |
| 2 | The exercise was reported to have been a success , with 12,000,000 people registering , and voting for party officials and delegates in more than 5,000 local ward elections took place on May 26 , using an open ballot system . |
| 3 | Subsequently he is reported to have been a pupil of his cousin George Wilfred Anthony , a drawing master in Manchester , later a landscape painter and art critic ( as ‘ Gabriel Tinto ’ ) for the Manchester Guardian . |
| 4 | In other words , X was deemed to have been a buyer ‘ in possession ’ and deemed to have delivered the car to the innocent purchaser . |
| 5 | On Radio Warsaw in December 1952 WIN was revealed to have been a puppet of the KGB since it was revived in 1948 . |
| 6 | The environment is said to have been a lagoon , and the ‘ shrimp band ’ is thought to represent an episode of sudden flooding by the sea . |
| 7 | The main London to Exeter ‘ road ’ was said to have been a quarter of a mile wide by the end of the winter where it crossed — or rather plunged through — the sticky morass of the chalk on Salisbury Plain . |
| 8 | Moore is said to have been a pioneer in producing a periodical for seamen , the Mariners ' Journal , which was published briefly between 185I and 1854 , and to have advocated the first system of paid shore based officials to look after the interests of their members while they were at sea . |
| 9 | The great reason for the Church of England 's perishing , if it does , will be seen to have been a lack of such a vision . |
| 10 | The massive trend , from 1965 to 1980 , towards diversification is now largely seen to have been a mistake . |
| 11 | Mr Greene claimed that in Britain campaigns aimed at the population as a whole had been shown to have been a waste of money and there had been a change of policy to target the high-risk groups such as homosexuals and intravenous drug users . |
| 12 | A 1.8-metre-square platform in the south-east corner is thought to have been a bed . |
| 13 | It is thought to have been a spout , or larger body of water , which , by the lightening incessantly rarifying the air , broke at once on the tops of the mountains , and descended upon the valley below , which is about three miles long , half a mile broad , and lies nearly east and west , being closed on the south and north sides with prodigious high , steep , and rocky mountains … ’ |
| 14 | THE body of a French charity worker killed in the shooting down of a Medicins sans Frontieres ( MSF ) plane in southern Sudan nine days ago exploded at Khartoum airport in what is thought to have been a booby-trap . |
| 15 | Below the rear central lamp , which shone into the interior , is the curved transverse tambour ; once erroneously thought to have been a sword-case , it opened only at the left hand end , outside the carriage , and its true purpose is obscure . |
| 16 | Hardly earth-shattering stuff , but it was thought to have been a gaffe , and interviewers clock up politicians ' gaffes the way fur-traders hang up the tails of skunks . |
| 17 | The human rights organization Amnesty International had called for a full investigation of the incident , thought to have been a reprisal for recent attacks by the rebel Popular Front for the Liberation of Azawad , which marked the collapse of a peace agreement signed in January 1991 [ see p. 37947 ] . |
| 18 | Last summer the crew of a Britannia Airways Boeing 737 inbound to Gatwick filed an airmiss report claiming that a small black lozenge-shaped object , thought to have been a balloon , had passed within 100 yards of the airliner at FL140 over Surrey . |
| 19 | The statue is known to have been in Florence from the sixteenth century onwards and is documented as being in the Uffizi from 1676 , but was always thought to have been a copy of a Greek original . |
| 20 | Believed to have crashed in October 1942 after a dogfight with a Luftwaffe fighter over occupied Normandy , the pilot is thought to have been a Fleet Air Arm Lieutenant . |
| 21 | Rhun is thought to have been a son of Urien of Rheged ( see above , p. 78 ) , and Oswiu 's marriage to Riemmelth may have cemented an alliance with the north British principality of Rheged as another important strand in the web of alliances which conspired to overthrow Eadwine . |
| 22 | This is variously thought to have been a half-man , a half-beast , or a deformed child of one of the Earls of Strathmore . |
| 23 | In contrast , by the time we get to the division over the standing army in 1699 — normally thought to have been a Court–Country rather than a party issue — there were only 36 Whigs out of a total of 221 on the Country side . |
| 24 | John Tennant ( 1725–1810 ) , the father of the family , is thought to have been a witness to the baptism of Robert Burns , and it was he who joined the poet 's father , William Burness , in hiring a young school teacher for their sons at Alloway . |
| 25 | A package containing what 's now known to have been a bomb was discovered hidden under a shelf in the Reject Shop in Cornmarket= It was found after an extensive search by sniffer dogs and army bomb disposal experts . |
| 26 | In seven cases there was acknowledged to have been a deterioration in the dependant 's condition , so that the principal carer accepted or had even requested institutional care . |
| 27 | The statement was believed to have been a reference to a letter written by Hurd on Aug. 1 to the British Conservative MP , Sir Peter Blaker , underlining the UK government 's respect for Islam and adding that " we understand that the novel , The Satanic Verses , was found deeply offensive by people of the Islamic faith " . |
| 28 | In at least one such area where it did eventually intrude , the original ‘ rotten apple ’ is believed to have been a government agent . |
| 29 | The dead man is believed to have been a student . |
| 30 | Gunners striker Paul Merson is believed to have been a witness to the incident . |