Example sentences of "to have [been] [adv] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she had come to dislike Dr McNab , believing him to have been indirectly responsible for her father 's death , she remained constantly at his side , helping him to care for the sick and wounded . |
| 2 | Beatrice saw him reading Les Liaisons Dangéreuses and slated that too , claiming that it was a steamy romance seized upon by the mothers of France ‘ and said to have been largely responsible for the modern severity towards young daughters ’ . |
| 3 | As Central Committee Secretary for Agriculture between 1978–85 , Gorbachev was bound to have been largely responsible for the limited measures undertaken in support of private plots . |
| 4 | But it seems to have been equally rare for young couples in the poorer classes to help their ageing parents by providing them with houseroom . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the pattern appears to have been broadly similar for finance , transport , oil refining and distribution . |
| 6 | Nothing else about me seems to have been very important for the past four years ! ’ |
| 7 | In 1905 A. Edgar Beresford joined Scott 's office ; he appears to have been chiefly responsible for the technical and financial success of the practice . |
| 8 | Biological anthropology in the present context considers infants and their care within an evolutionary perspective , arguing that over the millions of years it has taken for humans to evolve , infant-parent contact was likely to have been virtually constant for at least the first year of life . |
| 9 | As for Philip , the prospect of seeing the man who was supposed to marry his sister go off on crusade for an indefinite period seems to have been too much for him . |
| 10 | Connected to the pool is a large anteroom with a sophisticated architectural design and the elaborate bath-house would appear to have been too large for the modest size of ‘ house ’ . |
| 11 | Tom Gower from Southport , though , seemed to have been as anxious for reassurance as he was to express solidarity . |