Example sentences of "to have [be] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although everyone somehow seemed to have been looking the other way at the time , the young man 's explanation was accepted and written down in his file to make it true . |
| 2 | According to one report , he told a group of journalists that he believed he ought to have been given the interim presidency . |
| 3 | Few apart from servants and those running retailing shops would have expected to have been employed the whole year through . |
| 4 | At the same time he was busy courting his supporters amongst the Country Tories by playing on the theme of the " Church in Danger " , and his strategy appears to have been to unite the various dissident Tories behind him in order to oust Oxford from power , and then try to ensure that Tory political dominance was so unchallengeable that when George I became King he would be forced to work with them . |
| 5 | The sword appears to have been to defend the Holy Church , the sceptre to signify royal power and the rod to symbolize virtue and equity . |
| 6 | Some members were housed in an annexe , but they were fortunate enough to have been allocated the spartan , but adequate rooms in the main building . |
| 7 | Under RSC , Ord 65 , r 7 , if service is effected after 4 pm on a weekday or 12 noon on a Saturday , service is deemed to have been effected the next day or on Monday as the case may be . |
| 8 | The overall intention of the Minoan priestesses seems to have been to house the whole pantheon in the Labyrinth , luring deities from their various shrines and sanctuaries in outlying areas . |