Example sentences of "to have been [adv] in " in BNC.
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1 | The promulgation of this version seems to have been largely in the hands of Buckingham , who lectured the lords and the mayor and aldermen of London on the subject — the latter for a ‘ good half hour ’ according to the Great Chronicle . |
2 | The promulgation of this version seems to have been largely in the hands of Buckingham , who lectured the lords and the mayor and aldermen of London on the subject — the latter for a ‘ good half hour ’ according to the Great Chronicle . |
3 | This is in stark contrast with the Exclusion Crisis , when both the electorate and , at least initially , " the crowd " , appear to have been largely in favour of the Whigs . |
4 | Another witness of the charter to St Wandrille dated 1033 is King Henry I of France , who is known from other sources to have been briefly in exile with Robert at Fécamp , and according Edward the title " king of the English " would presumably have done Robert 's prestige no harm at all , as he would thus have been entertaining two exiled monarchs at the same time . |
5 | His tomb , said to have been originally in a Ravenna church , has a marble cover which bears a full-length portrait of the recumbent warrior decked out in his best battle-gear . |
6 | Patrick 's evangelical work is believed to have been chiefly in the north of the country , which was still largely pagan . |
7 | The man behind Shoom — a club that is now so legendary that if all the people who claim to have been there in its formative months really had attended , it would have been held in Wembley Stadium not in a sweaty south-east London basement — he resolutely refused to cash in on the boom that became known as acid . |
8 | On the edge of the gravel near the front door , Cameron and James Menzies conferred with Allan , Donald Stewart the blacksmith , and John Stewart the pedlar from Newbigging , who seemed to have been everywhere in the past twenty-four hours . |
9 | Napoleon is believed to have been warmly in favour even though the tunnel was not designed for military purposes . |