Example sentences of "to have been [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first glance the easiest solution to the difficulty which the eager candidates for the collectorship had created would appear to have been to take the advice which was being so strongly urged , and install Craigbarnet to share the office with Kirkton , for Craigbarnet would certainly have been willing to accept even a small fraction of the emoluments in his desperate need . |
| 2 | Nine of the 28 subjects were found to have been exceeding the speed limit on at least one of the four occasions . |
| 3 | I seem to have been given the freedom |
| 4 | And I am certain he would love to have been given the chance to impress the NIBA selectors as they prepare to pick the side for next month 's senior championship in Dublin . |
| 5 | ( 9 ) For the purpose of ensuring that a transfer of Shares is duly authorised hereunder or that no circumstances have arisen whereby the Directors are empowered to require that a Transfer Notice be given or to resolve that a Transfer Notice be deemed to have been given the Directors may from time to time require any Member or past Member or the legal personal representatives , trustee in bankruptcy , liquidator , administrator or administrative receiver of any Member or any person named as transferee in any instrument of transfer lodged for registration to furnish to the Company such information and evidence as the Directors may think fit regarding any matter which they may deem relevant to such purpose . |
| 6 | ( 9 ) For the purpose of ensuring that a transfer of Shares is duly authorised hereunder or that no circumstances have arisen whereby the Directors are empowered to require that a Transfer Notice be given or to resolve that a Transfer Notice be deemed to have been given the Directors may from time to time require any Member or past Member or the legal personal representatives , trustee in bankruptcy , liquidator , administrator or administrative receiver of any Member or any person named as transferee in any instrument of transfer lodged for registration to furnish to the Company such information and evidence as the Directors may think fit regarding any matter which they may deem relevant to such purpose . |
| 7 | ‘ I feel deeply honoured to have been given the opportunity of continuing the work I 've started in the last 16 months , ’ he said . |
| 8 | All told , I regard myself as incredibly lucky to have been given the opportunity of being Chairman of the National Gallery , and I could n't have enjoyed it more . |
| 9 | He was a young lawyer of about thirty in his first year in Parliament , who had sufficiently impressed someone in Government to have been given the job of Junior Minister at the Trade office . |
| 10 | It is not the only contentious matter to have been exercising the lady 's mind . |
| 11 | I would like to have been watching the expression on his face , having put the question to him so bluntly , but just at that moment I had to slam on my brakes for two gaudily painted trucks , one of them with La Resurrección elaborately painted in red . |
| 12 | Nicole looked quite thrilled to have been asked the question , and she haltingly explained that her son was at a party and that they would be collecting him later that morning . |
| 13 | The result is in line with Roberts , and is consistent with the decision if not the reasoning in Spratt , where the court seems to have been discussing the nature of recklessness , not whether there had to be mens rea as to the occasioning of actual bodily harm . |
| 14 | House broker Smith New Court is said to have been promoting the stock to its clients . |
| 15 | Recently , the Treuhandanstalt , the government department responsible for selling off East German industry , was at the centre of a scandal as its officials were found to have been pocketing the proceeds . |
| 16 | We are delighted to have been awarded the contract . ’ |
| 17 | Historically , the standard of diligence set by the courts has been comically low , as can be seen from the cases concerning failure to supervise fellow directors and managers who turn out to have been defrauding the company . |
| 18 | Mr Kinnock appears to have been preparing the ground for a possible arrangement with the Liberal Democrats by stressing his party 's commitment to proportional representation in a Scottish assembly , and to involve other parties in a review of alternative voting systems for the House of Commons . |
| 19 | The idea of palaeokarst landforms seems to have been attracting the attention of European geomorphologists in recent years and possible examples of various ages have been described from different places , e.g. Belgium and Poland ( Sparks , |
| 20 | ‘ It really is a bit strange to have been arguing the merits of ERM membership in academic abstraction , when the practical effects are there for all to see . |
| 21 | Rule 3(7) is re-enacted in the Supreme Court Act 1981 s. 31(3) , and the main effect of the rule seems to have been to equip the court with a flexible and unpredictable tool for controlling access to judicial review . |
| 22 | Koty was said to have been planning the insurrection through contacts with people in several towns , and had fled , taking with him a number of dissident troops . |
| 23 | No , he 's more likely to have been driving the Custom Shop totally insane for about two years straight , telephoning at obscure hours to tell them about his change of heart concerning the exact height of the fret-wire . |
| 24 | HP is known to have been casing the industry for new directions — a process witnessed by the winding down of its New Wave interface efforts — and is now thought to be closing in for a piece of Taligent Inc ( UX No 417 ) , the Apple Computer Inc/IBM Corp joint venture on object-oriented operating system technology . |
| 25 | ‘ Like most of the estate staff who were supposed to have been keeping the place straight . |
| 26 | Traders are reported to have been stockpiling the horns in the hope of higher prices should rhinos become extinct . |
| 27 | It is understood that he would have liked to have been offered the post of Leader of the House . |