Example sentences of "to have [been] [vb pp] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above all , there seemed to be little recognition of the special needs of people who were destined to spend very long periods behind bars : the long-termers were treated not very differently from the short-termers , and relatively little thought seemed to have been given to the risk of mental deterioration in an environment without stimulus . |
| 2 | He believed the woman to have been connected to the attainted Deveril family ; the motto on the dog collar could not be dismissed as a coincidence . |
| 3 | Indeed , Eanwulf 's connections with Hwiccian territory appear to have been considerable , for he founded the monastery of Bredon in Worcestershire , of which Offa was subsequently a patron ( CS 234 , 847 : S 117 ; CS 236 : S 116 ) but Offa 's family is not certainly known to have been related to the princes of the Hwicce . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've taken scrapings of those areas where the Scapegoat appears to have been secured to the frame . |
| 5 | A mortgage by Bishop Eadnoth of Crediton from 1018 ( S 1387 ) is said to have been declared to the borough meetings of Exeter , Totnes , Lydford and Barnstaple . |
| 6 | At least 100,000 million yen were alleged to have been diverted to the Inagawa-kai , the second largest crime syndicate in Japan . |
| 7 | The sudden influx of sugar also caused some temporary problems : ‘ Russian storage facilities for Cuba 's raw sugar appear to have been strained to the point that some sugar spoiled . |
| 8 | Dr Kinlen says children in densely populated urban areas are likely to have been exposed to the infectious agent and built up an immunity to it . |
| 9 | As there is only one fixing point , this being on the base , it would have had to have been fastened to a stable item , such as furniture . |
| 10 | In this connection , she was reported to have been co-opted to the Judicial Studies Board . |
| 11 | The only member of the former Board of Guardians to have been appointed to the committee was William Lansberry , who had been its chairman , and he was immediately put on a sub-committee to appoint a Public Assistance Officer . |
| 12 | If it is that the Court of Appeal should have relisted his case , then his application would have to have been made to the Commission by March 1991 . |
| 13 | The attempt then appears to have been transferred to the Daily Mail . |
| 14 | Ellwood et al. ( 1980 ) , however , argued that when the maximum depth of burial ( estimated at 12 km ) and age are taken into account , the sediments underlying the Piedmont , though not as altered as the surface rocks , are likely to have been raised to the greenschist phase of metamorphism and so presumably have little remaining hydrocarbon potential . |
| 15 | a legendary monster said to have been born to a wealthy lady who had referred to a beggar 's child as a nasty pig . |
| 16 | The earlier and well-known technique of framing up a loose panel appears to have been sacrificed to the whimsy of fashion . |
| 17 | But if today Georgia O'Keeffe is one of the few women to have been admitted to the art historical canon under the banner of ‘ greatness ’ , in her day she never won the critical acclaim she sought . |
| 18 | The other potential problem was what would happen to Gloucester 's authority after the young king 's coronation , but even this seems to have been settled to the duke 's advantage and John Russell , in his draft speech for the opening of parliament , assumed that Gloucester would remain in overall control — although he clearly also felt that this was a departure from precedent which needed to be justified . |
| 19 | The other potential problem was what would happen to Gloucester 's authority after the young king 's coronation , but even this seems to have been settled to the duke 's advantage and John Russell , in his draft speech for the opening of parliament , assumed that Gloucester would remain in overall control — although he clearly also felt that this was a departure from precedent which needed to be justified . |
| 20 | One can hardly put it stronger than that , because a certain imprecision appears to have been attached to the word from the beginning . |
| 21 | Whether this device would , in a crisis , have served to drive people away or draw them to the spot seems not to have been put to the test . |
| 22 | Boeing components are alleged to have been sold to the Iranians by the London-based Aer Lingus controlled spares company Alpex , which has since been wound up . |
| 23 | After the initial failure to sell Austin Rover and Leyland Vehicles the government continued to negotiate for the sale of Leyland Bus , which was to have been sold to the Laird Group , the second largest UK bus manufacturer . |
| 24 | This aircraft is reported to have been shipped to an East Coast workshop where work is currently under way with a view to making it fly again . |
| 25 | At most , the prosecution witness is obliged to testify that there was a person present or in the vicinity who was likely to have been subjected to the sensations described . |
| 26 | She sang very seldom during these years — an occasional Butterfly or Violetta and at the end of the war a superb Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte — and considered her repertory career to have been brought to an early end . |
| 27 | The ‘ right ’ of orgasm for women ( as well as for men ) seemed to have been added to the list of the ‘ natural rights of man ’ which the fathers of the Enlightenment seemed to have overlooked ! |
| 28 | In these same excavations a square external tower was also examined ; it was thought to have been added to the wall at a later date . |
| 29 | The attack was believed to have been linked to the second anniversary on Dec. 9 of the Palestinian intifada in the occupied territories . |
| 30 | Little heed seems to have been paid to the argument that before stepping into an airliner everyone knows a slight risk is involved . |