Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [verb] been [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that a patio of ample size will be needed , which could use a combination of pre-cast slabs and new brick paving , or , of you are lucky , some old bricks that may have been in the garden already . |
| 2 | Too many Whitehall battles were fought because , for example , tourism had to stay with trade , with the result that a whole series of issues that should have been in the consumer department were not . |
| 3 | He jumped up from the chair he was sitting on and knocked something on to the floor , something that must have been on the arm . |
| 4 | But er that was , that was very much er clutching at things that might have been at the last moment . |
| 5 | On occasion , strong political interest could push a young man forward much more rapidly than could have been for the good of the service . |
| 6 | So th let's look then back at this illustration for a moment , this incident , Jesus then gets er a few of his disciples and they go out , in the boat , and there are others who follow him , they get into their boats quite likely , quite possibly that many of the others would have been followers of Jesus , some of his other disciples , it 's unlikely in these very small little er lakeside fishing boats that many of disciples would have got in , there might have been four or five of them that would have been about the lot and so the others would have got into some of the other boats which were nearby and , and others are the people that had been listening to Jesus , they too get into boats , and they pull out following him , wanting to hear if he 's got anything more to say , wanting to witness anything else that he 's gon na do , they wan na be there to see and to hear what Jesus has to say and is going to do . |
| 7 | And er as I 've said before , I have n't seen a a barrel of oil burning and the heat and smoke that comes off that you consider the amount of oil that would have been in the separators on the platform at the time , I think it would have still have caused an awful lot of heat and an awful lot of smoke and fire , and er just shutting off the oil coming back to the platform maybe would n't have helped that much . |
| 8 | Yeah I know if you 'd have moved round to the other side that would have been in the shadow so you would n't have got those nice bright colours . |
| 9 | So far , I have discussed the hunting economy purely as an immediate-return one , and such indeed it is in central Australia and must have been in the case of the first hunters . |
| 10 | It was tucked into a corner of Bulak and must have been near the river , for once Owen caught a glimpse of ship masts at the end of a street . |
| 11 | But the Pharisees would have provided him with some of his most loyal and fervent followers , and would have been among the first to regard him as the Messiah . |
| 12 | Though Lancashire are far below full strength , Grayson has earned his place on merit having captained the powerful North Under-21s to the ADT divisional age-group title and would have been in the side even had the Orrell contingent been available , Martin Strett being ineligible having represented the Northern Division in October . |
| 13 | Top seed Seles , who has three Grand Slam titles among her nine tournament victories this year , finished off the 14th-ranked Tauziat in 50 minutes , and would have been in the locker room even sooner but for a lapse in concentration during the second set . |