Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] been [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The way he wears you down , the way he bleeds you white — if his name were Julian Barnes , he would have long been known as the Glacier . |
| 2 | However , what is most interesting is that a deliberate attempt was made to sell it as a concept rather than as what might have hitherto been seen as a package of infrastructural measures . |
| 3 | Hypotheses , then , help us to refine theory by bringing more details into consideration in areas of research which may previously have only been explored in a rather sketchy way . |
| 4 | But whatever satisfaction Scott may have gained from the debate and the fact that he had been given six months to prepare a new design , it must have soon been dispelled by the public press and the action of some of his professional colleagues . |
| 5 | Some of the work for a museum catalogue may have already been done before the acquisition of a picture . |
| 6 | On the subject of local histories — especially town histories — it is very possible that the ground will have already been explored by a previous researcher and the results of the study published . |
| 7 | First approaches to Adult Education Authorities should have already been made for the Autumn term but it is still worth getting on their lists . |
| 8 | However , this may have largely been caused by the difficulty of the actual recall task . |
| 9 | Such a transfer will be appropriate whether the property was held by the husband and wife as beneficial joint tenants or as tenants in common : in the latter case , as the transfer to the husband and wife will not have contained a declaration to the effect that the survivor of them could give a good receipt for capital monies , a restriction will have automatically been entered on the register to the effect that no disposition by a sole proprietor of the land ( not being a trust corporation ) under which capital money arises is to be registered except under an order of the registrar or of the court ( Land Registration Act 1925 , s58(3) and Land Registration Rules 1925 , r213 as amended by Land Registration Rules 1989 ( SI No 801 ) ) . |
| 10 | The Briton would presumably have also been issued with a name-badge but with a British horror of self-advertisement had taken it off the moment he could . |
| 11 | If the Pritchetts had n't taken me in , I 'd have probably been put in an orphanage and never had the educational advantages or been given the opportunities that have come my way . ’ |
| 12 | The concept of flux cutting could have equally been used in the calculations involving static flux . |
| 13 | In time the Pomeranian Poles would have undoubtedly been absorbed into the German-language community as their forbears had been in previous centuries . |
| 14 | As far as social policy is concerned , four main ways of different importance and popularity have been cited : expenditure on the social services has used up labour and capital which would have otherwise been employed in the wealth-creating manufacturing industries — this is the de-industrialisation thesis . |
| 15 | These changes were aimed at speeding up trials and saving government expenditure by allowing some cases which would have previously been tried in the Supreme Court moved to district courts , and by having other cases tried by police courts instead of district courts . |
| 16 | Such stories would have never been published in the United Kingdom , for instance , where public officials can hide behind punitive laws of libel and press freedom is less assiduously protected . |