Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [been] [verb] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enough has been said in this paragraph to indicate that the justification of telescopic observations was no simple , straightforward matter . |
| 2 | But the cost of his doing so has been revealed in all its starkness in the unseemly scramble for the succession that has followed his departure . |
| 3 | They may , however , not be exactly what the author would have preferred , as a colour plate which is readily available ( perhaps having been used in another publication ) is much cheaper to use than a new plate which has to be commissioned . |
| 4 | Many Libyans especially in the smaller towns had been able to move out of the path of oncoming measures of social justice : many would not have been affected in any case ; some had no doubt been caught . |
| 5 | To say nothing of the fact that ‘ charity ’ should not have been invoked in this issue , the fact was that the excruciating passion levels broke all records on this outing , bust all guts . |
| 6 | This information has proved invaluable and could not have been gathered in any other way . |
| 7 | It seemed that for reasons of his own he wanted to make quite sure that the woman knew how things stood , and really she could not have been left in any doubt , Maggie thought . |
| 8 | John Aubrey records how Thomas Hobbes , the philosopher , was ‘ put into a Woollen shroud ’ at his death in 1679 , arguing that had Hobbes received the £100 per annum pension granted by Charles II in 1660 — ‘ At the Restoration , Charles II awarded him a pension of £100 a year — which , however , His Majesty forgot to pay ’ — then he might not have been buried in such a common shift . |
| 9 | The first sign that you are making real progress in learning to fly is that such mishaps become rarer and , eventually , uncommon despite the model not having been changed in any way . |
| 10 | She knew she was lucky not to have been cut in half by a razor-edged cardoor playing frisbee . |
| 11 | More traditional home grown ways of alleviating unemployment meanwhile have been outlined in each of the major parties ' manifestoes . |
| 12 | Fluid flow turbulence , in contrast , is far too pervasive ever to have been regarded in this way . |
| 13 | This decision was made by the patients ' doctors ; neither patient responded , but both have been included in this analysis . |
| 14 | On the other hand , if Coridon and Mopsa had originally been written in F major , for a soprano , it could perfectly well have been left in that key for Pate to sing ( an octave lower , of course ) , because it would go no lower than f . |
| 15 | The link record is usually not redundant , that is , it contains useful information in itself ( in the relational model , it may well have been specified in any case , as a separate relation formed from a relationship in the data analysis phase ) . |
| 16 | It could even have been disguised in that box I sent . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , ’ said the Archdeacon , ‘ he would n't have been assessed in any very formal sense . |
| 18 | He ca n't have been so crap otherwise he would n't have been picked in such a brilliant side but the mistakes I 've seen were just appalling , and in the most important games e.g. the first Chelsea 70 Cup Final game when the ball went right under his body . |
| 19 | The distinctive deep chin cowling , a feature of the PR.XI , along with the enlarged oil tank beneath has been retained in this faithful rebuild and just about the only non-authentic concession made in the rebuild has been the fitting of a standard armour plated framed windscreen instead of the one piece wrap-around frameless example , the latter giving the pilot a somewhat distorted view from the cockpit . |
| 20 | Waiting to see how the social fund would be administered in practice would leave advisers unsure and the issue should ideally have been included in any training on the new social security regulations . |
| 21 | Channel 4 said the three illustrations which caused all the upset would never have been transmitted in any case without further editing . |
| 22 | The trouble was , it should never have been parked in that corner in the first place , so there was n't much the owner could say , apart from making the air blue for half an hour or so . |