Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] [verb] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is very important that credit is given for any UK tax which may have been borne by an overseas trust . |
| 2 | This is slightly less than would have been obtained on an ordinary fixed deposit for 90 days at 10 per cent . |
| 3 | To constitute an offence under those sections the waste must have been deposited on an unlicensed site or in breach of the conditions in the licence , must amount to an ‘ environmental hazard ’ and must have been deposited in such circumstances or for such a period that whoever deposited it there may reasonably be assumed to have abandoned it there or to have brought it there for the purpose of its being disposed as waste . |
| 4 | I am happy to welcome that investment , and I imagine that it owes much to the climate and environment that the Government have created and which might have been threatened by an alternative settlement at Maastricht such as the Opposition would have supported and implemented if they were ever elected . |
| 5 | As silica is only mobilised in strongly alkaline environments and as gypsum and other soluble salts occur in the underlying zone of weathering , it is suggested that they may have been formed in an arid environment . |
| 6 | Mr Saunders goes on to admit that broadcasters are not entirely blameless in this respect : ‘ More should no doubt have been done at an earlier stage in development of RDS to give the receiver manufacturing industry some guidelines setting out the minimum levels of RDS performance that should be achieved ’ . |
| 7 | Things could have been done in an underhand way , but I insisted that Hibs ask for permission to speak to me . |
| 8 | Typically sparked off by what might have been seen as an unfair arrest or an arbitrary use of police power , resistance to arrest on this scale was such an entirely , common feature of working-class life before the Great War that it constitutes the most articulate demolition of the myths of deep-rooted popular respect for law and authority in England . |
| 9 | Parliament has introduced taxation of this ‘ perk ’ but upon a gradually increasing scale — still short of the true value of the use of the car — no doubt because to have introduced it at its full value would have been seen as an unfair and unacceptable increase in the burden of taxation in one year on those who enjoyed the ‘ perk ’ and of course the future of the British motor industry would be taken into account . |
| 10 | Later it may have been incorporated into an enormous palace compound covering a wide swath of the city |
| 11 | That scaffolding must itself have been built by an earlier form of cumulative selection , at whose nature we can only guess . |
| 12 | Land and buildings included at cost or valuation would have been stated on an historical cost basis at : |
| 13 | And Williamson suggests that this line of approach may have been influenced by an important letter sent to Baldwin , by W. Bridgeman , which stated : |
| 14 | Shadow health secretary David Blunkett protested that the ‘ record ’ 50p rise should have been announced in an oral statement to the House , giving members the chance to question it . |
| 15 | That could have been achieved by an international conference in which both sides ( and Bulgaria , which also has an interest ) would have been asked to swear their respect for existing frontiers . |
| 16 | At this moment she looked to Joe like a witch and her voice and words sounded as ominous as any that could have been uttered by an authentic witch , as she hissed at him , ‘ I am more concerned about what happens to you than what a lot of stupid men do in their aim to kill each other . |
| 17 | Candidates will have been ranked in an unalterable order of preference by the party , and the first five will be named on the ballot paper . |
| 18 | A luxurious yacht like that must have carried an engineer — we can find that out easily enough — and it 's a fair guess that the engines would have been maintained in an immaculate condition . |
| 19 | ‘ When he did so , he would have been holding to an instinctive belief that the signal behind him would inevitably have gone to red . |
| 20 | Over that time , it must have been cooked in an enormous variety of ways . |
| 21 | Rather than being sustained by a vibrant , developing , experimental tradition , the revolutions of modernism may simply have been absorbed by an engrained , infrangible , realist tradition which rarely does more than appropriate a few of the more alluring additions Joyce and others made to ‘ the international store of literary technique ’ . |
| 22 | Although based on research of lasting value , the draft Articles on service of documents rest overmuch on United States perceptions and would not have survived the sort of examination to which they would have been exposed at an international diplomatic conference . |
| 23 | Gould might have been disorientated — his record of dates , distances and directions are sometimes unreliable ; he might have exaggerated the achievements of his expedition — he would not have been the first explorer to do so ; or he might have been misquoted by an over-enthusiastic press . |
| 24 | It is the first occasion that Basquiat 's art will have been studied by an American institution and it comes at a time when David Ross , who replaced Thomas Armstrong as the Whitney 's director in bitter circumstances nearly two years ago , is under considerable pressure to ignite a new and visionary exhibition programme at the museum ( see The Art Newspaper No.6 , March 1991 , p.5 ) . |
| 25 | Given recent reductions in the rate of personal taxation , there is now little fiscal benefit to be obtainedthough in any case that should have been regarded as an incidental benefit and not a justification in itself for the establishment of such a company . |
| 26 | The very next scene must have been recorded from an imperial cruiser in orbit . |
| 27 | of which Orwell had derisively remarked in ‘ Inside the Whale ’ ( 1940 ) that it could only have been written by an innocent for whom murder is at most a word . |
| 28 | And the Ode to Duty , with its opening lines sounds as if it might have been written by an Old Testament Prophet . |
| 29 | Liver biopsy showed a predominantly T cell mononuclear cell infiltrate and although the possibility of lymphoma was raised it was considered that this may also have been caused by an inflammatory process . |
| 30 | The many occasions over the years when this summit has been short of water were thus inevitable unless the level of leakage could have been reduced to an absolute minimum . |