Example sentences of "to have be a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All we are left with are a few opening chapters ( published as Coots in the North , edited by Hugh Brogan ) , and notes towards an encounter between two sets of pirates , the Death and Glories and the Amazons , which promised to have been a battle royal . |
| 2 | The environment is said to have been a lagoon , and the ‘ shrimp band ’ is thought to represent an episode of sudden flooding by the sea . |
| 3 | Hardly earth-shattering stuff , but it was thought to have been a gaffe , and interviewers clock up politicians ' gaffes the way fur-traders hang up the tails of skunks . |
| 4 | ‘ You have to have been a variety artist or a dependant , ’ says Elliott , formerly a dancer and the late Dick Emery 's manager . |
| 5 | The main London to Exeter ‘ road ’ was said to have been a quarter of a mile wide by the end of the winter where it crossed — or rather plunged through — the sticky morass of the chalk on Salisbury Plain . |
| 6 | Er there seems to have been a rash of resignations recently , it all started with David Gower , then Graham Taylor and last week we heard that Mary Whitehouse is standing down now it 's Joan and thank you Joan for your sterling work as ticket subscription secretary Joan reorganized the system and I 'm sure that whoever takes over from Joan will start with an immaculate set of facts and figures . |
| 7 | ‘ Twenty years ago I would have liked to have been a cook elsewhere , ’ she admits . |
| 8 | She professed to have been a cook in a house where I was once governess . |
| 9 | Another of his favourites seems to have been a tomato jam ; this he uses for a sweet called Peaches Barbara with cream and kirschwasser and pistachio nuts . |
| 10 | In other words , X was deemed to have been a buyer ‘ in possession ’ and deemed to have delivered the car to the innocent purchaser . |
| 11 | And it would balance her table , thought Mair , although that was hardly likely to have been a consideration . |
| 12 | The massive trend , from 1965 to 1980 , towards diversification is now largely seen to have been a mistake . |
| 13 | If it proves to have been a mistake this entrepreneur himself will be under market pressure to abandon this line of production . |
| 14 | There appears to have been a return to narrative , with more titles published and more copies sold ( although it must always be borne in mind that the Italian literary market is a relatively small one ) . |
| 15 | But Fermi requires there to have been a change of sign . |
| 16 | I think L was very fortunate to have been a child in the days when children could roam in woods and fields , unafraid , and when doors could be left unlocked ; when there was less traffic , less noise and less hectic rush . |
| 17 | In those days , simply being British seems to have been a passport to the higher circles of whatever country the traveller set foot in . |
| 18 | Below the rear central lamp , which shone into the interior , is the curved transverse tambour ; once erroneously thought to have been a sword-case , it opened only at the left hand end , outside the carriage , and its true purpose is obscure . |
| 19 | There seems to have been a hierarchy of colours , ranging from grey , to red for the principal rooms . |
| 20 | The statement was believed to have been a reference to a letter written by Hurd on Aug. 1 to the British Conservative MP , Sir Peter Blaker , underlining the UK government 's respect for Islam and adding that " we understand that the novel , The Satanic Verses , was found deeply offensive by people of the Islamic faith " . |
| 21 | There would seem to have been a shortage of silver in Northumbria from the 790s on , certainly for minting purposes . |
| 22 | Ar are you saying that the defendant was , or ought to have been a conveyancing expert himself ? |
| 23 | THE body of a French charity worker killed in the shooting down of a Medicins sans Frontieres ( MSF ) plane in southern Sudan nine days ago exploded at Khartoum airport in what is thought to have been a booby-trap . |
| 24 | The twelve paintings are remarkable for being executed on canvas when normally such representations were in fresco , but Ribera is known not to have been a fresco painter . |
| 25 | The party was meant to have been a thank-you to the casino staff from the management . |
| 26 | The party was meant to have been a thank-you to the casino staff from the management . |
| 27 | How many women can claim to have been a Tiller Girl ? |
| 28 | He admitted to have been a virgin at twenty-two . |
| 29 | I should like to have been a parent , a real English Socialist , a stunning diver on the side , and a foppish dresser . |
| 30 | ‘ She was n't clean enough to have been a harem girl . |