Example sentences of "to have [be] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Constructionally , I did n't make the tables easy for myself , but the detailing seems to have been worth the extra time spent . |
| 2 | Its last rebuilding is believed to have been during the first quarter of the 19th century . |
| 3 | There now occurred something , that in retrospect , I believe to have been of the greatest significance to this journey . |
| 4 | In one respect the change seems to me to have been for the worse . |
| 5 | ( This is not the present ladies ' room but is believed to have been on the first floor of the main clubhouse where it was known to be in the 1940 's at least ) . |
| 6 | The Kitchings ' workplace which is believed to have been on the grassed wasteland in front of North Road museum became known as Hopetown Foundry . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't think it does anyone any good to have been on the same patch of ground for five hundred years . |
| 8 | Not only does the battered town seem to have been on the receiving end of a good deal of good , honest , no-nonsense coppering , but it gives the impression that a higher authority , God , must have passed over it in the Fifties , blasting it at close range with His celestial hair-drier , to judge from the universally blistered and leprous paintwork on all the buildings . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's supposed to have been at the Versorelli Institute in Geneva from the fourth to the fourteenth of November . |
| 10 | Anthony Morris , QC , told Manchester Crown Court that Mr Foster died because he had the ‘ misfortune ’ to have been at the same secondary school as the gunman and had known him well for four years . |
| 11 | Leftwich seems to have been amongst the first to realize that the widespread use of ice for preserving food would be both highly beneficial and immensely profitable . |
| 12 | The graves contained the bodies of up to 200 policemen , many of whom had been blindfolded and shot in the back of the head , who were presumed to have been amongst the 600 captured by the LTTE on June 11 [ see above ; pp. 37529-30 ] . |
| 13 | Little information has survived about the scale of the pilgrimages , usually at their greatest on the Saint 's Day , 3 April , but it seems to have been in the usual boisterous medieval tradition , both sacred and profane . |
| 14 | The golden period of manufacture seems to me to have been in the late 1950s and early 1960s when both manufacturers were making superbly engineered , fully adjustable machines . |
| 15 | It seems to have been in the Eastern seaports of colonial America that the fruit acquired its association with hospitality . |
| 16 | It is no longer , as it were , a global political programme , as it may be said to have been in the 19th and earlier 20th centuries . |
| 17 | Thirdly , it is often impossible to tell from the inventory whether a person was poor or whether he was living in comfortable retirement , having already passed on most of his estate to his children ; a yeoman with very few possessions is likely to have been in the latter category . |
| 18 | I I simply do n't know but the paperwork I 've seen says that erm it is as likely in the next four or five years that major inward investors could be in the B one office type of employment as they happen to have been in the last couple of years in the manufacturing class . |
| 19 | Plants like these are very likely to have been among the earliest forms to colonise the moist margins of the land , but so far no fossil relics of undoubted mosses have been discovered from this early period . |
| 20 | The hey-day of sport in our village seems to have been from the late 19th century up to the 1914 war , with a short revival between the wars but although attempts have been made at intervals the same enthusiasm does n't seem to prevail . |
| 21 | According to contemporary writers , and repeated regularly ever since then , Piper had already gained fame as the first European to have been behind the Great Wall of China . |