Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She said : " I felt at an earlier stage there were enough moderate Africans who could have taken their place alongside whites in government and there would have been much more evolution towards African leadership than the revolution that came about in the end . |
| 32 | Ca n't have been much of a life . |
| 33 | I would n't have been much competition by the side of sexy George , but still , a man has his pride . |
| 34 | Do n't forget , I have lived here three months , and although I know the family to be close-fisted there can not have been much more than that . ’ |
| 35 | If at any stage in the discussions on Monday , or in all the other discussions that I have attended in the past two years , it had been a question of majority vote , there would have been much less agreement , and to the extent that decisions had been imposed by a majority , they would have been much less effective . |
| 36 | Nevertheless , I do not believe for one moment — I made this point on enough occasions to the hon. Member for Antrim , East ( Mr. Beggs ) — that , if we had not given potential investors the opportunity to buy a power station that could be converted to gas , there would have been much hope of bringing a gas pipeline to Northern Ireland . |
| 37 | The Belfry PGA officials say profit from the match is around £800,000 although they admit this could have been much more if they had allowed in a greater volume of spectators for this , the first ever all-ticket clash . |
| 38 | Before the meeting , you know at the moment John Major is in Moscow , erm before that meeting there 'll have been much work done by the officials on briefing papers , on trying to identify the potential issues that are going to come up in the meeting , there 'll have been a lot of background work that would be similar er to patterns of relationships between various departments erm in any process of decision making . |
| 39 | ‘ He ca n't have been much fun to live with ; his wife would n't necessarily have been heartbroken , ’ Guy commented drily , finally releasing her and going in search of a large box of tissues . |
| 40 | Erm that would have been much much quicker if they 'd bothered and organized them but they had n't organized anything . |
| 41 | ‘ He must have been all of 40 , 50 … at least 60 yards out . ’ |
| 42 | He thought of sitting down to wait for a break in the storm but that could have been all night so he struggled on downhill , angling a little to the left , until he met the treeline at the bottom of the meadow . |
| 43 | If it had said 22.000 KM. it would have been all the same to me . |
| 44 | Perhaps his initial success should n't have been all that surprising for he comes of good rugby stock . |
| 45 | There 's a sort of cosy sentimental glow coming over everyone who 's talking about , it ca n't have been all that wonderful , all the time somehow ! |
| 46 | Must have been all those flowers . |
| 47 | Think it must have been all the cleaning and dusting I did . " |
| 48 | Rachaela could imagine Emma would have been all congratulations and the joys of womanhood . |
| 49 | I can remember it well , it was lit by gas e even in these days you know it would have been all electric light but it was gas and er we had erm , I would go for engineering drawing and maths probably I think . |
| 50 | It was n't , it definitely was n't the tablets because i if , if it had done that to you , it would have been all day . |
| 51 | ‘ But that noise need n't have been a retch — could have been all sorts of things . ’ |
| 52 | Frankly , I do not believe that there should have been all this talk about a little bit of majority voting on foreign policy . |
| 53 | But by then he had taken refuge in the church , and the service must have been little more than a conversation between him and old MacDiarmid , because not another soul had dared to run the gauntlet and go inside when the clock struck three . |
| 54 | Nevertheless , the saving of water this system would have produced as compared with normal lockage would have been little more than 50 per cent , a benefit that would hardly justify the installation of the lift if water saving was the main object . |
| 55 | If MI5 had obeyed the 1952 Maxwell Fyfe guidelines then there would have been little cause for complaint about its activities over the past 35 years . |
| 56 | ‘ And there would have been little risk , if they had bothered to ask at Snow Hill what time the beat constable was due to pass by . |
| 57 | There would have been little room to work or store on the gallery , but it could have been a convenient place to display finished work for the approval of the merchants riding round the countryside in search of stock , as the main road passes nearby and upon which the main flow of riders would have travelled . |
| 58 | If young people posed no threat in terms of allegiance , there would have been little need of so many reform programmes . |
| 59 | For example , there may have been little point in devising an ‘ inner area ’ and allocating resources to it . |
| 60 | On foot there would have been little danger for a man alone ; even on horseback not much . |