Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] been [vb pp] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wrote : ‘ But it is when we examine the zoology of these countries that we find what we most require — evidence of a very striking character that these great islands must once have formed a part of the continent , and could only have been separated at a very recent geological epoch . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The evolution of such a plant could not have been achieved at a single stroke . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Others were part of basic research on living tissue , and their benefits could not have been realised at the time . |
| 6 | The defect in any case may not have been known at the time of the sale . |
| 7 | The large steersman 's oar , which must always have been located at the stern , is the only clear indication of the vessel 's orientation . |
| 8 | Change in firm 's circumstances Where the circumstances of the firm have changed in some material respect which could not reasonably have been foreseen at the date of the agreement . |
| 9 | The education of the Master himself would probably have been gained at a grammar school of a similar sort . |
| 10 | Either the C scribe or one of his predecessors added to the 1017 entry that the ætheling Eadwig was afterwards killed , and ( perhaps inadvertently ) omitted from it the expulsion of Eadwig king of the ceorls , which appears under 1020 ; the information in 1030 that Olaf " was afterwards holy " ( i.e. regarded as a saint ) must also have been included at a fairly late stage in C 's composition . |
| 11 | It was first published in 1650 in the first edition of dances collected by John Playford and would certainly have been danced at the court of King Charles II . |
| 12 | Philip Leapor may therefore have been orphaned at the age of eight . |
| 13 | It is dated December 1959 , and may therefore have been written at the time that Take a girl like you was being completed . |
| 14 | The goods must actually have been stolen at the time of the offence . |