Example sentences of "to have [been] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 685–6 when the pagan Caedwalla came to power , and the southern Saxons under a Christian king , Aethelwealh , but still otherwise largely a pagan people , appear to have been beyond the range of Theodore 's metropolitan power . |
| 2 | She had planted some runner beans in the patch of the old vegetable garden he had dug earlier ; they were flowering energetically and seemed to have been worth the trouble . |
| 3 | His face was so familiar that he seemed to have been with the production for weeks . |
| 4 | The gunman is thought by detectives to have been under the influence of ‘ crack ’ cocaine . |
| 5 | Designated children had to fall within the age ranges 3–4 years or 16–18 years and to have been under the care or formal supervision of the local authority for at least six months . |
| 6 | The bloody fools seem to have been under the impression that they had performed rather well . |
| 7 | This angered several readers , who seem to have been under the impression that in publishing it , I condone and support abortion . |
| 8 | Vamplew ( 1979:2f ) states that , of the five types of disorder classified by Mann and Pearce , ‘ all but remonstrance can be found at soccer grounds in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , though the majority of incidents appear to have been of the frustration or confrontation varieties ’ . |
| 9 | On the other hand , in R. v. Secretary of State for the Environment , ex parte Rose Theatre Trust Co. the judge appears to have been of the view that an applicant could have standing only on the basis of a personal interest and not on the basis of representing the interests of others . |
| 10 | A Kashmiri Muslim , she claimed to have been to the Doon School ( the Indian Eton ) and to have completed a Master 's degree in English at Bombay University . |
| 11 | He 'd completely forgotten he was supposed to have been to the library . |
| 12 | This explains , says the professor , why all Archer 's characters seem never to have been through the growing-up process . |
| 13 | Miss Harrison , of North Green , Staindrop , is thought to have been on the way home from a riverside barbecue when the accident happened just before 11 pm . |
| 14 | 14 October , 1969 TONY BENN records in his diary : ‘ In the evening Caroline and I went to Number 10 for a dinner for the American astronauts , the first three men to have been on the moon . |
| 15 | The two main issues thought to have been on the agenda for Li 's visit were South Korea 's intention to apply for separate membership of the UN ( North Korea favoured the two Korean states sharing a single UN seat ) , and the growing pressure for the North Korean government to allow international inspection of its nuclear facilities , an issue at the heart of the current normalization talks between North Korea and Japan [ see below ] . |
| 16 | Collecting rubbish , he thought , would remind him of how fortunate he was even to have been on the circuit . |
| 17 | In many ways they seemed to have been on the verge of civilisation , as they kept pigs , and cultivated the land for millet . |
| 18 | It was so useful to have been on the road myself and to have experienced cold-calling , setting up new accounts , or merchandising accounts that did n't want to see you at that particular moment . |
| 19 | The official definition of long-term unemployment is more than twelve months without work , although employment training , which is designed for the long term unemployed , requires entrants to have been on the register for more than six months . |
| 20 | The writing would have appeared to have been on the wall from the moment Lincolnshire 's Sarah Bentley ( now representing Surrey ) , let slip a 5–1 opening set lead in the first rubber , a lead that included a missed set point . |
| 21 | I would have been quite happy just to have been on the bench for the entire championship but , as it turned out , I had another big incentive in that as Gary might not play for the rest of the Five Nations there would be four internationals available if I proved good enough ’ . |
| 22 | The only item in the Christie 's sale to have been on the ship at the moment of sinking , it was written by Mrs Esther Hart and tucked into her husband 's jacket . |
| 23 | She ought to have been on the job , she thought , ferreting out facts about Hereward and Amy . |
| 24 | Anyone who could put on such an outrageous act — and get away with it — quite clearly ought to have been on the stage ! |
| 25 | While life expectancy has extended , it appears to have been at the price of a longer period and a greater proportion of life being spent in chronic sickness . |
| 26 | His involvement with the practicalities of such development seems to have been at the level of experience as well as theory . |
| 27 | Yet it is remarkable , on the other hand , how morally unmoved the British hierarchy in India seems to have been at the time by civil disobedience : if British officials found it morally painful to see Indians breaking the law and suffering for it , by and large they succeeded in keeping the fact to themselves . |
| 28 | We seem to have been at the end of its reach on this occasion . |
| 29 | Indeed , religious tensions appear to have been at the root of the party divide — not the sole cause , it should be stressed ( indeed , much of this book has been concerned with documenting the complex ways constitutional and religious issues interacted ) , but perhaps the most potent source of conflict , with attitudes towards Dissent ( whether one was sympathetic or hostile to Protestant Nonconformists ) being one of the strongest predictors of partisan allegiance . |
| 30 | SULTRY : Carla is said to have been at the chateau |