Example sentences of "[vb infin] been the [noun] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Æthelweard , who was of the finest English stock , and may well have been the man of that name executed by Cnut in 1017 ( see above ) , dissembled by undertaking what he had no intention of performing , and the Chronicle records the ætheling 's eventual banishment in 1017 . |
| 2 | This being the case , people will feel able to hold smaller money balances in relation to their planned spending than would have been the case without such substitutes . |
| 3 | Matters would have been made that much simpler had the guild clerk also been the parish clerk and it might well have been the case in some instances . |
| 4 | The starting point for each of them is to ascertain from the appropriate table of retail price indices covering the period between service of writ and trial what would have been the equivalent of those damages in the money of the day at the date of service of writ , reckoned in pounds sterling at the higher value that they then stood at at the very beginning of the period for which simple interest is to be given . |
| 5 | Presumably it had once housed families of civilian workers at the army camp , but before that it might have been the home of some isolated community of wild-fowlers or oyster-dredgers , with smuggling , probably , as their main source of livelihood . |
| 6 | Few if any of the matters on which these parents commented would have been the subject of any explicit policy statement in a school . |
| 7 | His predecessor as leader of China 's billion people , Mao Zedong , may have been the maker of many of those revolutions , but Mr Deng was the one who often cleaned up the debris and put China back on its feet . |
| 8 | Even the wild surmise occurred to me that Leslie might have lost his memory ; but commonsense reasserted itself , and I realised that this could not have been the fate of all his men . |
| 9 | It could have been the assurance of that privacy and , perhaps , the promise of food which had persuaded him in from the cold . |
| 10 | That could have been the cause of all the trouble , I suppose . |
| 11 | Whatever may have been the cause of that allegiance to the ‘ gods ’ of their beliefs , does not really matter , for the teachings of all of them contain items aide wisdom which are available to all humanity , and can be used to provide further units of ‘ goodness ’ for the minds of men to assign to the store which is the Created God . |
| 12 | It would be unwise for the hon. and learned Gentleman or for anyone else to draw conclusions about what might have been the cause of this accident . |
| 13 | The ‘ oohs ’ and ‘ ahs ’ of reverence which greeted this would have been the envy of any priest or preacher . |
| 14 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 15 | Hence an important tool of management whose common usefulness could be judged by the essential partners to collaboration failed to provide what had appeared to be promised — and one says " appeared " because it may have been the wish of some college managers not to allow information by which their efficiency might be judged to become available to other parties . |
| 16 | That summer evening referred to by Miss Kenton in her letter came very soon after that encounter — indeed , it may have been the evening of that same day . |
| 17 | As he declined the invitation it is unnecessary to consider further what would have been the effect of such a joinder . |
| 18 | As he declined the invitation , it was therefore unnecessary to consider further what would have been the effect of such a joinder . |
| 19 | As he declined the invitation it is unnecessary to consider further what would have been the effect of such a joinder . |
| 20 | Even more revealing , had I been asking the questions now ( the year of the miners ' strike ) , would have been the reaction to this one , suggested by Griffiths and Howson . |
| 21 | It was during the filming of the opening titles for the last ‘ Marti ’ series for the B.B.C. Dressed in a red chiffon evening gown , high heels and lead-weighted knickers , I had to sit on a rock at the bottom of a tank full of sharks , smiling and brushing my hair , while Duncan swam past with a plywood plaice bearing the immortal words ‘ End of Part One ’ ( it could have been the end of several parts ! ) . |
| 22 | Our parents may not have been Christian , or even if they were they could have been the victims of some erroneous ideas or traditions . |
| 23 | It may well have been the desire of many , perhaps a majority , of the Cabinet and the Conservative backbenchers . |
| 24 | In passing it may be observed that journeymen and apprentices were seldom specified , although this must have been the status of many of the servants that were listed . |
| 25 | Ideally , she knew , Brian should have been the recipient of all this intellectual and spiritual outpouring , but he was not interested , and her therapist , who should have been the other option , merely picked all the meat off her perceptions and left her with a meaningless pile of bones . |
| 26 | ‘ That would have been the arrival of those humans . |
| 27 | So pre-programmed did their behaviours seem , that they themselves might have been the subjects of some meta-experiment and the pallor of their laboratory coats a function of their caged confinement . |