Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] been [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the Nuclear Installations Act 1965 no person other than the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority shall use any site for the operation of nuclear plant unless a licence to do so has been granted in respect of that site by the Minister of Power . |
| 2 | As a child , this pride type would perhaps have been beaten in order to subject their will to the adult and break their pride , but without success . |
| 3 | On the ground in front of the simple headstone were several dark splashes , which could only have been made by blood . |
| 4 | And his young wife accompanied him with a sensitive mastery that could only have been born of love . |
| 5 | Such a performance can only have been intended for entertainment in a programme of venationes and gladiatorial combats . |
| 6 | Subject to planning permission , it could sensibly have been used for development and perhaps for a number of other purposes … |
| 7 | Only part of this extensive cloth and flock mill remains , much having been destroyed by fire . |
| 8 | A prime minister , so the argument went , who was the subject of such a massive loss of confidence among both the political élite and the public at large would swiftly have been removed from office . |
| 9 | With the decline in the herring fishing , followed by a complete ban on all herring catching in an endeavour to build up stocks again , the pelagic catchers turned their attentions to mackerel which hitherto had been despised as food in the North of Scotland . |
| 10 | However , the SPO 's electoral prospects apparently had been damaged by Draskovic 's earlier calls , much toned down during the campaign , for redrawing Serbia 's borders to include parts of Bosnia-Hercegovina and Croatia : many voters were frightened away by what sounded like a call for civil war . |
| 11 | The capability of a breakdown of gliadin peptides by the intestinal brush border enzymes alone have been studied in detail by Bruce et al when it was shown that brush border from coeliac patients and controls were able to hydrolyse gliadin completely in vitro . |
| 12 | For decades after , Walsall remained the famous name in giant-killing folklore , a kind of perverse tribute to Arsenal 's greatness , but with other , more recent , spectacular Cup exits , notably that of Leeds United at the hands of Colchester in 1971 , the Walsall ghost may finally have been laid to rest . |
| 13 | No data are available to show how long fluid persists in severe cases that would normally have been listed for surgery . |
| 14 | Though it was Edwardian England and though Harriet was the sort of upper-class child who would normally have been corseted with convention , Mrs Buckingham 's resolve collapsed after her husband 's death . |
| 15 | After much investigation , he discovered that it was n't a British resident at all , but a Russian bird that must somehow have been blown off course from its migratory route during the hurricane-force storms of the previous year — the storms that had immediately preceded its arrival in our village car park . |
| 16 | These directories should already have been created in Section 1.1 . |
| 17 | Some of those homes may already have been hocked by granny to pay for care in her declining years ; and house prices may be depressed as inheritors who already own their homes sell those they inherit . |
| 18 | The wider interests of disabled people could not easily have been taken into account in that case but they were undoubtedly relevant . |
| 19 | A decision had to be made ; or maybe it already had been made by Copper , because if he had decided to lie down before I could get back to him his leg would have been broken irreparably . |
| 20 | Cuts in temporary nurses and overtime have been agreed by West Lambeth health authority , London , after its running deficit tripled to £1.5 million in a month . |
| 21 | Matches againts Battyburn and Villa away have been scheduled for Sky . |
| 22 | As far as is known , no disease ever has been transmitted with cocoa material distributed from Kew , but the danger is real , and without such quarantine facilities the spread of such diseases as witches ' broom would be almost impossible to prevent . |
| 23 | ‘ And in case you do n't believe me I would n't still have been covered in snow when I came in if I had ’ |
| 24 | One has to concede that successive Conservative Governments have accepted rulings from Brussels on , for example , social policy , the regulation of working practices and the straight-forward geographical reallocation of wealth which it would be hard to imagine ever having been proposed as part of a domestic Conservative programme . |
| 25 | This decision was plainly absurd : all confidentiality in the information had evaporated with overseas publication , and no additional damage to the national interest could possibly have been done by re-publication of the contents of the book in the British press . |
| 26 | 7.6.1.2 the payment of the insurance money is not refused in whole or in part by reason of any act or default of the Tenant or anyone at the Premises expressly or by implication with the Tenant 's authority [ and under the Tenant 's control ] the Landlord shall use [ its ] best endeavours to obtain all planning permissions or other permits and consents that may be required under the Planning Acts or other statutes ( if any ) to enable the Landlord to rebuild and reinstate ( " Permissions " ) The insured risks referred to in 7.6.1.1 will hopefully have been specified in clause 2.8 or in the policy details supplied to the tenant from time to time pursuant to clause 7.9.1 |
| 27 | Lamb 's statement of intent will nonetheless have been tinged with disappointment on a communal level . |
| 28 | The dewar is the largest ever to have been flown in space , although smaller devices operate successfully . |
| 29 | Keepers there gave them a bijou penthouse , an extensive garden and pretty soon they 'd sealed their union with a cub : one of very few ever to have been born in captivity . |
| 30 | Perhaps the most famous incumbent of Stanton Lacy is poor Robert Foulkes , who was one of the very few clergymen ever to have been executed for murder . |