Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [vb pp] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the game against the All Blacks was entertaining , the flaws in the Boks line-up were evident to see and changes should have been made for the following encounter with the World Champions . |
| 2 | The government 's Countryside Commission argued that the licence should only have been renewed for a few years during a thorough review of military land requirements . |
| 3 | Recent scholarship suggests that the tactic of anonymity may have been employed for the best of reasons . |
| 4 | The main advantage of panels is that they provide feedback over a period of time , which increases the reliability of their responses compared with people who may have been stopped for a brief interview outside their local supermarket , for example . |
| 5 | You would have been forgiven for a knowing smile then , but now acid rain is no laughing matter . |
| 6 | McKoy , having already been called back for one false start , would have been disqualified for a second offence — but he took full advantage of his head-start to pip Jackson for the gold . |
| 7 | It is not known where the Gospel was written but it must have been written for a Jewish Christian community . |
| 8 | The cycle might have been written for the celebrated dramatic powers of Maria Ewing . |
| 9 | Any one of them might have been used for an unlawful occasion , but , if so , the most diligent inquiries failed to bring it to light . |
| 10 | This has the appearance of an emergency military operation which may not apply to the other civil defences , but these too must have been commissioned for a specific occasion , but where the emergency may not have been too critical . |
| 11 | Some ore was so intermixed with gangue however , that the concentration by hand was extremely laborious and the mill must have been needed for a long time . |
| 12 | He says that moral is low , with workers now waiting to see who have been chosen for the latest redundancies . |
| 13 | Like the rest of the staff , he wore a burgundy-coloured uniform although , apart from his name tag , it could have been taken for a regular formal suit . |
| 14 | If what he says in the scum book is true then how could we let that happen , surely Blackburn could have been squeezed for a goodly 3 squiddlys . |
| 15 | If it was , then the theatre score could just as easily have been copied for the first run as for the revival . |