Example sentences of "to have [be] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Husameddin 's argument , moreover , ignores the facts that Shams al-Din is known to have been part of Molla Fenari 's name but not , so far as can be discovered , of that of his son and that the son was regularly referred to as Mehmed Sah whereas it is not known that Molla Fenari ever was .
2 ‘ What a pleasure it has been , and an honour to have been MP for Winchester for 13 years , ’ he said , thanking those who had supported him in the past year .
3 He was the son of and seems to have been co-ruler with King Cenred ( see Appendix , Fig. 3 ) , whose advice he acknowledges in his laws which date to the period before 693/4 ( when Eorcenwald , bishop of London , whose help he also acknowledges , died ) .
4 As we shall see , there seems to have been provocation from Normandy too .
5 If estoppel was to be relied on , it ought , I think , to have been estoppel by representation .
6 There also seems to have been trouble at Ramsey .
7 For whatever reason , Neil , who had almost looked forward to relieving his body 's urgent demands — he seemed to have been continent for years , and McAllister 's arrival in Vetch Street had most inconveniently revived his dormant senses — found that he was disgusted with himself most of all .
8 His source for this information is not given , but he does mention the existence of documents signed by a man of this name which show him to have been kadi of Cirmen and of Edirne .
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