Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [noun sg] [vb mod] [vb infin] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A trip to Lombok , the next island along , gives a taste of what Bali might have been like before tourism . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | D c c could you have visualized any way in which production could have been controlled apart from his down about a certain amount ? |
| 5 | It has no cellars in which material could have been stored for safety , and it is not known how much had been removed elsewhere . |
| 6 | However , we can say that even historic cost accounting , in times of rising prices , does provide some indication of the extent to which capital might have been eroded or maintained , which as we have suggested earlier is potentially useful information . |