Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] been [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They 'll not have been the first tourists to be fed to the sharks and they wo n't be the last . ’ |
| 3 | There would always have been a few men who had been dancing barechested all the evening , dancing with the fierce attention of the tango , or the apache ; these were the ones who stayed on late . |
| 4 | It may also have been the political considerations involved which led both the WJEC and the University of Wales to remain silent throughout the argument . |
| 5 | He was only a few miles away but for him it might as well have been a million miles . |
| 6 | But it might as well have been a million miles away . |
| 7 | Yet he sensed that those next few minutes , after Ashenden had finished speaking with Kemp , might well have been the crucial ones in that concatenation of events which had finally led to murder ; and he questioned Ashenden further . |
| 8 | A striking record of Elizabethan Christmas anthems by Red Byrd and the Rose Consort of Viols explores what may well have been the raw sonorities of Tudor vocal timbre ( Amon Ra CD-SAR 46 ) . |
| 9 | It might as well have been the last rites . |
| 10 | One reason doctors take temperatures is to cover themselves against negligence claims , although doctors ' legal defence bodies say there have been no such cases . |
| 11 | Yesterday police questioned worshippers at a nearby church , but say there have been no new leads . |
| 12 | Working with one set of tattered plans there have been a few problems along the way . |
| 13 | What then have been the main criticisms ? |
| 14 | It can be assumed then that by 1910 the age range ran from 14 to 43 for certain , and there will most likely have been a few women in their late forties or early fifties . |