Example sentences of "[vb infin] been the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he 'd been convinced , he would 've been the first to nab the Cap'n . |
| 2 | It must 've been the pipe . |
| 3 | To headline that , mate , would 've been the tops . |
| 4 | " Funny , I did n't think I 'd hit him , but I suppose I must have — must 've been the second shot . |
| 5 | But the other one I would 've er suggested would 've been the schools . |
| 6 | So if if the cadres had taken the law and 's speech there should n't 've been the sorts of problems that , that we came up against . |
| 7 | I do n't know if that would 've been the right thing to do there . |
| 8 | So it could 've been the feathers . |
| 9 | From a letter to Francesco Gonzaga , written in 1622 and published by A. Luzio , in which among others a self-portrait of Tintoretto is offered to him , Pittalunga argues that the Paris picture may have been the one mentioned and which formed part of Rubens 's estate . |
| 10 | A critic walking for the first time into a gallery may describe a colour in a picture as blue ; it will have been the scrupulous task of a conservator to have established that the particular colour in question was Prussian blue , and thus can not date before the eighteenth century . |
| 11 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 12 | Can this ever have been the trouble with Larkin ? |
| 13 | I have seen before and after your boasted strokes of policy ; and you were the same man , and would have been the same man to me and to yourself if you had never done them . |
| 14 | And the fact that you already have a good instinct for acting will probably have been the main reason why you passed your entrance audition for drama school . |
| 15 | Though opinion in the South gradually softened , there can be little doubt that the obverse would have been the case had the British government not changed tack and demurred at an openly repressive strategy . |
| 16 | What might have been the nature of the inner religious conflict ? |
| 17 | ‘ Well , if it was intended as a distraction , then that must have been the moment when he poisoned his wife . |
| 18 | Life would not have been the same without them , nor would it be now , considering the lasting impression they made in our minds . |
| 19 | It may not have been the origin of his interest in such people but clearly played a formative part in his development . |
| 20 | I wonder whether the umpire 's attitude would have been the same if the offender had been his opponent , the comparatively unknown Grant Connell . |
| 21 | In retrospect the most important event of 1986 may have been the conception of the new Networker train , filling a vital gap price and quality wise , at long last making it possible for NSE to plan systematic replacement of old EMUs . |
| 22 | Balanchine would have been the last person to break or contradict the thematic content and destroy the composer 's intentions . |
| 23 | There was nothing to suggest that had the evidence been excluded that result would necessarily have been the same . |
| 24 | Steve Cauthen , who rode Balla Cove , had earlier taken the other feature race on the card , the Godolphin Stakes , on Spritsail — a victory that should have been the subject of a stewards ' inquiry . |
| 25 | He should have been the principal suspect . ’ |
| 26 | Yet portions cling to the style of days gone by , when a salt beef sandwich might have been the single meal of the day . |
| 27 | It could just as well have been the 20th birthday of the Eden Gardens tea urn , and as far as the Indian government is concerned , there is nothing like an international cricket tournament for persuading the electorate that , with polling day just around the corner , Rajiv is the boy to vote for . |
| 28 | As he was found guilty of having intercourse with a girl of under 16 years of age , logic surely draws the conclusion that if she is unable to testify in court , she is unable to give informed consent to sexual intercourse ; in other words that the grounds on which the charge was dropped should have been the grounds on which rape was proven . |
| 29 | It could have been the opening sequence of any off-beat , low-budget American cop series , but closer attention to the soundtrack ( 'Green Onions ' would be an unusual choice for Florida Felony ) gave it away . |
| 30 | ‘ That might have been the case once , but now we produce perfectly good coaches ourselves , and I 'm concerned the incentive will disappear if administrators continue to look only to Australia . ’ |