Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] [vb mod] [vb infin] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is where this fallacy about their squad would have been completely exposed . |
| 2 | While Viscount Althorp , the late Earl Spencer , may have been proud of his new daughter — Diana was very much the apple of his eye — his remarks about her health could have been chosen more diplomatically . |
| 3 | One of the most important components of the legal framework created by parliament for their protection will have been rendered ineffectual for them . |
| 4 | In a piece of fancy footwork of which Gekko would have been proud , America 's fat cats have capped a record year by undermining President-Elect Bill Clinton 's plans to soak the rich , before he has even set foot in the White House . |
| 5 | Acoustically , the Takamine has a fairly flat response , with no boomy bass or tinny treble tendencies at all , though the evenness of its tone may have been achieved at the expense of some character . |
| 6 | Rapturous as the circumstances of its conception may have been , the genesis as a whole could only , in retrospect , seem an extraordinarily painful business , as he intimated to Rohde shortly after the book was out : " No one has any idea how such a book comes into being : the trouble and torment it is to keep oneself as clear as this of other ideas pressing in from all sides ; the courage needed to conceive of it and the honesty needed to carry it through ; and above all , perhaps , my tremendous task vis-à-vis Wagner , which has certainly been the cause of many heavy clouds in my heart " the task of being independent even here , of taking up an , as it were , alienated stance . " |
| 7 | ‘ Of course , ’ he said , ‘ she has only come in to die , but I think that had she been removed before , much of her suffering would have been saved . ’ |
| 8 | However , that part of his brain may have been damaged and unable to give an accurate reading . |
| 9 | The chief effect of his Bill would have been the banning of almost all images of homosexuality from the small screen . |
| 10 | In the Sandleford warren no rabbit of his age would have been asked to tell a story , except perhaps to a few friends alone . |
| 11 | Within a week the big machines had moved in , and that corner of his parish could have been one of thousands of others in modern England — any place , anywhere . |
| 12 | A trip to Lombok , the next island along , gives a taste of what Bali might have been like before tourism . |
| 13 | Stop , we will of course continue to put the varieties into unofficial trials , bracket and will pay the fees in full close brackets , in good faith on the understanding that when the varieties are to go into U K official trials , the position of your company will have been resolved and you will then be in a position to offer us the excrusive , exclusive rights at that time . |
| 14 | Even the row with her husband could have been provoked . |
| 15 | One of the reasons for Champneys 's move to Holland with his apprentice may have been his bankruptcy in 1766 . |
| 16 | The wealth and power he clearly possesses by the time he is reunited with his brother would have been regarded by the writer and the first hearers of the story as clear signs of God 's blessing . |
| 17 | Both Offa 's dislike of the men of Kent and the extent of the territory now coming under his control may have been factors in the situation in the late 780s , but in 798 Coenwulf and Leo were deploying these arguments selectively and in a way which compromises their validity as single explanations of what was probably a complex situation . |
| 18 | Is it possible that bolt in my arm should have been through my heart ? ’ |
| 19 | However , Schäuble said that any refugee who had arrived via a third country in which asylum could have been requested would be sent back , and that reciprocal expulsion arrangements with Poland and Czechoslovakia would be renegotiated to reduce the numbers of asylum-seekers . |
| 20 | D c c could you have visualized any way in which production could have been controlled apart from his down about a certain amount ? |
| 21 | It has no cellars in which material could have been stored for safety , and it is not known how much had been removed elsewhere . |
| 22 | With over a thousand delegates from thirty three countries to choose from her impact must have been pretty powerful . |
| 23 | On the corner of the Square in his day would have been St Michael 's Church . |
| 24 | He had expected that any change in his routine would have been of his own making , not hers . |
| 25 | The anti-realist holds that our understanding of the sentences in our language must have been acquired in situations which we learnt to take as warranting the use of those sentences ; situations in which those sentences are to count as true . |
| 26 | To have gone without a nightdress in our house would have been heresy . |
| 27 | You could n't keep bulls for long or the strain in your herd would have been weakened by in-breeding , so there was a regular turnover , and quite often farms would loan out their bulls around the Dales before selling them out of the area . |
| 28 | You would think that , I think that the people in in your hospice would have been just as happy to see somebody from Eastenders and you would n't have to pay for |
| 29 | That is not to say that without them growth would have been seriously less . |
| 30 | In the olden days , with no contraception to speak of , there were probably masses of women , especially the poor ones , to whom child-bearing must have been a penance which they were forced to endure because there was no way out . |