Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if it did , it was apparently to have been a big affair — no mere helicopter-borne ‘ surgical strike ’ — in which sheer weight of numbers and firepower could have been expected to guarantee ultimate success . |
| 2 | The tapered-sided gable-lidded coffin was being challenged by the new single-break flat-lidded shell , though it appears only to have been the middle classes who focused attention on style . |
| 3 | Even though it seems only to have been conditional independence the terms were so alarming to General Valluy that he flew back to Paris to warn the French Government and the outcome was a special cabinet meeting at which hardly anyone supported the Bollaert initiative . |
| 4 | Essentially , it appears only to have been willing to investigate the necessity for Community legislation to the extent that it has been alleged that the existing law already complied with the objectives of that legislation , i.e. to determine whether the Community legislation was redundant . |
| 5 | Yet the collapse of the Taurus settlements system project , at massive cost , turns out only to have been the latest in a line . |
| 6 | Just off Highway 83 north of Wellington , Texas , he came across the abandoned house of Mr and Mrs Sam Pritchard , who were unlucky enough to have been at home when the gangsters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker paid a call after their car had plunged off the road . |
| 7 | If the girl had been killed locally , she is small enough to have been carried through the alleys — perhaps even by a woman . ’ |
| 8 | As a matter of interest , I once met a forensic scientist fortunate enough to have been present during a research experiment in which a mummy was unwrapped . |
| 9 | Some members were housed in an annexe , but they were fortunate enough to have been allocated the spartan , but adequate rooms in the main building . |
| 10 | As the minutes ticked away to the dinner , excitement was rising among the European leaders lucky enough to have been invited . |
| 11 | Perhaps he knew D'Arcy well enough to have been expecting it . |
| 12 | Jitters had been splashed with some of the liquid fire from the grenade , but he was lucky enough to have been blown through a hole in the wall by the blast . |
| 13 | A young man stood a pace behind him , young enough to have been his son , and his breath played the sweet stale smell of the cigarette smoker 's mouth across the Major 's nostrils . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's nothing to do with whether I 'm good , whether I 'm lucky enough to have been given more talent than you , the rest of you … ’ |
| 15 | Second , the area was not fortunate enough to have been chosen for a government-supported demonstration project , despite the key issues of homelessness and health in the inner London areas served . |
| 16 | Those of my readers who are young enough to have been exposed to " modern mathematics ' at school , and for whom it " took " , will be familiar already with the essentials of this rather sophisticated notion . |
| 17 | Not only that ; we would be breaking the law if we ‘ interfered ’ with him in any way ; the sand lizard is considered rare enough to have been designated a ‘ protected species ’ ( Wildlife and Countryside Act , 1981 ) . |
| 18 | The emergence of the satire movement in the early sixties ‘ marked a new stage in the social revolution ’ : ‘ Like the pop artists ( and the pop singers yet to come ) the satirists formed part of a new generation coming to the surface in English life , one young enough to have been moulded by the garish , anarchic and youth-conscious atmosphere of the late fifties … . ’ |
| 19 | I could n't remember her ever having been any different , and even Lili could n't have known her as a young woman , for Syl 's mother was old enough to have been his grandmother . |
| 20 | The departures from a spherically symmetrical gravitational field are so big that J 2 is large enough to have been measured very accurately , and for the same reason this is also the case for the next gravitational coefficient in the series , J 4 ( jay-four ) . |
| 21 | In a pool of 30 WFS countries ( see Table 10 ) , the mortality of infants born less than 24 months after the preceding birth was found to be 80 per cent higher than that of infants fortunate enough to have been born after an interval of 24 to 47 months . |
| 22 | Nevertheless the technique is attractive enough to have been the subject of further development work ( Bakhuizen , 1979 ; Hair , 1983 ) and commercial exploitation ( Kuo and Butts , 1982 ) . |
| 23 | ‘ She was n't clean enough to have been a harem girl . |
| 24 | For those of us old enough to have been around at the time of the birth of rock ‘ n ’ roll , the idea of an advanced course in the music which made both us and our parents jump ( but in opposite directions ) may be hard to accommodate . |
| 25 | To her grandfather , admittedly , a man who must have been old enough to have been her father , but still surely nothing to get in such a stew over . |
| 26 | Eleven days ago these sides contrived to conjure up one of the really memorable Croke Park finals that wo n't be easily forgotten by those fortunate enough to have been present . |
| 27 | It was an unforgettable night for the challenger and those fortunate enough to have been at ringside . |
| 28 | At the big bang itself , the universe is thought to have had zero size , and so to have been infinitely hot . |
| 29 | In 1983/4 , estimates of the numbers of lone-parent families seem consistently and wrongly to have been based upon early tabulations from the 1981 Census , which identified 414 298 households in Great Britain containing one or more children aged under 16 living with only one adult . |
| 30 | Victory over the disintegrating Manchu dynasty was perhaps to have been expected ; victory over Imperial Russia was quite sensational . |