Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] been [adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the Committee 's proposals on buggery , this would have meant that a man who procured a woman 's submission to anal intercourse by threats other than of violence would not necessarily have been guilty of any offence . |
| 2 | However , they would not necessarily have been conscious of this if they were in an ordinary environment with normal background sounds . |
| 3 | Mehmed el-Fenari ; and he not unnaturally concludes that Molla Fenari must still have been alive at that date . |
| 4 | Carew 's bleak diagnosis can hardly have been uninfluenced by several decades of mounting concern at the impermanence of non-agricultural employment compared with the stability of farmers fully occupied tending their land , and men continuously employed as servants in husbandry engaged for a year at a time . |
| 5 | Although the chemistry of modern Earth-bound life is all carbon-chemistry , this may not be true all over the universe , and it may not always have been true on this Earth . |
| 6 | Er my Lord er the second observation I make about erm Mr opinion erm and the facts upon which it is based is that his opinion is hotly disputed er , not least because of what it would be submitted is the highly speculative nature of this enterprise er , when you are being asked to consider with the benefit of hindsight , whether or not a business entered into some eighty years ago , was likely to have failed and er it is also an exercise which in my submission is entirely irrelevant if your Lordship would find the basis of compensation which I contend for is the one because the logic of not having to become involved in any investigation of whether or not this business would probably have been unsuccessful in any event . |
| 7 | If a property is insufficiently furnished for full habitation , it may also have been unoccupied for some length of time . |
| 8 | This problem must also have been worse for some people because , even though I 'm only 16 , I am 5ft 8ins . |
| 9 | A little-known Darlington firm might also have been active in this early phase . |
| 10 | A lot of our discussion so far has been concerned with this kind of " saying " , but I have purposely avoided introducing any of the technical jargon of semiotics ( the theory of signs ) and this is now leading me into difficulty because the ordinary use of words in social anthropological discourse is crudely imprecise . |
| 11 | She may well have been right about this . |
| 12 | For Gordon might well have been one of this newspaper 's very first journalists . |
| 13 | The Ariadne carried an immense and , to the uninitiated , quite bewildering variety of looking and listening instruments that may well have been unmatched by any naval ship afloat . |
| 14 | ‘ I expect you 've heard the rumours about us seeking further investment for the station — you might even have been privy to some inside information . ’ |
| 15 | Although we have been playing teams which have been going through crap periods , I think this has worked against us as all the opposition players and fans etc have been desperate for some sort of result . |
| 16 | The dominance of London may partly reflect the decline of other centres , particularly in the South and South-east , and indeed London merchants may sometimes have been responsible for this . |
| 17 | The flapping of their wings and the strange cries they make would indeed have been eerie for those who Mew nothing of bird migration . |
| 18 | Bismarck must indeed have been impressed by this example of family loyalty . |
| 19 | While individual officers may indeed have been aware of this work , consideration of it did not form part of the policy-making . |
| 20 | This too has been conspicuous in all the areas of business which we have examined ; but never before when when he was likely to be confronted with so much debate and such a variety of decisions . |
| 21 | He could never have been one of those charismatic men and women who inspire and enthuse ; equally , he could never have achieved an indifferent acceptance of failure . |
| 22 | Discussion in the staff meeting should have taken place before any proposal affecting school policy is presented to the governors and a class teacher should certainly have been involved in any submission about an individual pupil . |