Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [been] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision to carry out a Caesarian section should perhaps have been taken after the 4.30pm examination when the heartbeat was known to have decelerated , he said . |
| 2 | The entry into Jerusalem can only have been made with the calculated design of identifying himself , very specifically in the eyes of the populace , with the expected Messiah — in other words , with the rightful king , the ‘ anointed one ’ . |
| 3 | The recommendation can only have been based on the interests of cost-cutting , not of justice . |
| 4 | But this turnover is so extraordinarily slow that each grain could only have been exposed during the last 4600 Ma for a total time much less than a million years thus requiring considerably higher cosmic-ray intensities in the past , which though possible is thought by several scientists to be unlikely . |
| 5 | The requirement of establishment imposed by the West German rule could only have been justified by the need to protect policy-holders . |
| 6 | In fact , many of these images could only have been created with the aid of magnifying glasses . |
| 7 | However , the overwhelming " yes " vote could only have been achieved with the additional support of the larger of the republic 's minority groups such as the Armenians ( 9 per cent of the population ) , Azerbaijanis ( 5 per cent ) and even the Russians ( 7.4 per cent ) . |
| 8 | It could have been provided as an additional barrier to odour , but this could only have been achieved by the use of waxed paper — as seen in the Lethieullier vault at Little Ilford , Essex — between the top of the sides of the coffin and the lid . |
| 9 | Bronze moulds for elaborate axes of the late Bronze Age in Britain could only have been used in the lost-wax process . |
| 10 | The intact pellets collected from varying distances from the nest , however , could only have been left by the adults . |
| 11 | In the past this plant would only have been found on the better drained slopes leading to our moorland plateaux , but because of man 's interference in this environment , by digging drainage ditches and lowering the water table , the plant has been able to spread onto the plateaux themselves . |
| 12 | Oliver North to Iran , travelling on Irish passports , to organize the sale of TOW missiles and launchers to the Iranian government in exchange for the release of American hostages ; details of money transfers and bank accounts , with dates and places — most of it based on incidents and conversations that could only have been known to the Iranian or American negotiators . |
| 13 | Some of these diplomatic operations can only have been performed for the gratification of the Jews themselves . |
| 14 | The clumps and individual Lees we see today may only have been planted in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries as part of the general landscape revival , on the apparent whim of an individual farmer , but some clumps may have survived better than others because the energies were right , and this may have enabled some of them to have had a continued existence from more distant times . |
| 15 | In case ( a ) , it could be concluded that equilibrium in the balance of payments might only have been accomplished with the existing policies by accepting higher levels of unemployment . |
| 16 | On the basis of this , it is submitted that the question of subsidiarity is essentially a political question for the Council , and if the Council decided to act at the Community level it would not be possible to challenge what it did simply on the basis that it could better have been done at the level of the Member States ; rather , it would be necessary to show a manifest error , a misuse of power or a clear passing of the limits of discretion , and it is submitted that the occasions when this might be done will be rare . |
| 17 | If the auguries for Branwell Bronte were , at best , uncertain , the same could not have been said of the last leave-taking of one of his father 's predecessors at Haworth , the Rev. William Grimshaw ( 1508–63 ) , of whom John Wesley wrote : |
| 18 | It is a pity that the same could not have been said of the United Company of Undertakers and the Worshipful Company of Upholders . |
| 19 | But in spite of the multiplication of new basic research tools in the humanities , it is surprisingly difficult to point , in specific areas , to solid , uncontroverted gains to scholarship which could not have been achieved without the new technology . |
| 20 | ‘ Zero incidents would have been better , ’ said Malcolm Hartley , the site safety adviser , ‘ and this is our target for 1993 , but only one incident throughout the year is extremely good news and could not have been achieved without the strong commitment for safe working shared by the site 's work-force ’ . |
| 21 | This success could not have been achieved without the dedication of all the Chairmen , voluntary Officers , Committee members and teachers who have worked so hard for the Society during those years . |
| 22 | To qualify in this last category a dependant need not have been related to the deceased , and thus a mistress would be included . |
| 23 | The range and depth of learning and the sense of satisfaction and achievement gained by the students were of a level which could not have been reached in the classroom . |
| 24 | Even had the bid been financed mainly with borrowed cash , would it not have been referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ? |
| 25 | The aim of creating a sense of prime loyalty among members of the colony , which was small enough for them to know each other , did not constitute any kind of a threat to central authorities in 1922 , but it would not have been tolerated in the 1930s , when family members were encouraged to spy on one another in the state interest . |
| 26 | An individual term may be ineffective in law ; or the terms as a whole may not have been incorporated into the contract in question . |
| 27 | He had been ill for many months and his five-year term would not have been renewed at the National People 's Congress which starts on Monday . |
| 28 | The client is then able to rely on the fact that even if s65(6)– ( 9 ) applied the benefit will not have been received in the United Kingdom because the benefit will be used to repay the interest on the loan ( and not the capital ) . |
| 29 | The anxiety is often more to do with getting rid of people who have exhausted their gifts , lost their way or , not unheard-of , should not have been appointed in the first place . |
| 30 | As it is not recorded until the work of Hermann and Florence of Worcester , who states that the saint speared Swegen from his horse , it would not be impossible to consider this story a reaction to taxation by the Normans ; but if it did originate earlier it too conceivably had something to do with Edmund 's increasing popularity , and if Florence 's version was current in Cnut 's time he can not have been flattered by the notion that Edmund had disposed of his father in a similar way to that in which St Mercurius was believed to have killed the emperor Julian the Apostate . |