Example sentences of "[adv] have [been] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when all has been considered the next and final step is the survey itself . |
| 2 | Very heavy Syrian casualties would apparently have been deemed a lesser price to pay than the probable failure of anything less than what the general 's men say was planned : a full-scale armoured and infantry assault involving 40,000 men on five main axes along a 50-kilometre front . |
| 3 | Some members were housed in an annexe , but they were fortunate enough to have been allocated the spartan , but adequate rooms in the main building . |
| 4 | The single women who hitherto had been considered a good influence on the girls were relegated to obscurity whilst the married heterosexual women were left to emerge as the ( acceptable and healthy ) role models . |
| 5 | It would just have been having a good time . |
| 6 | Bowe might just have been demonstrating an innate sense of psychological testing techniques . |
| 7 | Léonie had discovered that , without ever having been taught a single rule of grammar , she spoke the language perfectly . |
| 8 | On the other hand , Major 's strategy so far has been to initiate a secret review of intelligence gathering in Northern Ireland . |
| 9 | The favoured strategy so far has been to introduce a cooling-off period before industrial action could be taken . |
| 10 | So Mrs so far has been hogging the whole show , is that right ? |
| 11 | There is a dining room ( with a beautiful Italian monks ' table dating from the early 18th century which interestingly has been lowered a few inches — the monks ate standing up ) , three bedrooms individually decorated , a comfortable study-cum-television room with a log-burning stove — and for bookworms , over 3,000 books . |
| 12 | I have the feeling , too , that the great object of the recording engineers here has been to present the full sound-range from the faintest pianissimo to the most thunderous triple- forte , and to ensure also that we hear as it were the furthest tip of the singers ' sibilants and the deepest reverberation of the bass drum . |
| 13 | ‘ Making Their Mark ’ could equally well have been called a mixed exhibition ; but this is a term more often used for a show put on by an exhibiting society , that type of artists ' organisation whose importance in Europe was created by the middle classes , who sought in the eighteenth century to buy pictures rather than give commissions , as aristocratic patrons had been accustomed to do . |
| 14 | It is recognised however that some reference to a version may be worthwhile , in that the producer of a module may well have been using a specific version of a referenced module during initial design . |
| 15 | He might as well have been devising a new war game . |
| 16 | He might well have been working a small place on his own behalf . |
| 17 | At first the glare from Lucifer — extending beyond Moloch 's ice-locked horizon , and reflecting from Belial high above — turned the depths of space into a flat black backdrop that could just as well have been suspended a few feet in front of her eyes . |
| 18 | She pinched herself , but might as well have been pinching the padded plastic of the bed on which she sat for all the sensation she felt . |
| 19 | And if he involved himself in military activity , he would simply have been discharging the martial duty expected of him as royal liberator . |
| 20 | Maidstone 's face displayed what could almost have been called a mischievous grin . |
| 21 | So , Mavis at least had been getting a good earful . |
| 22 | Patients nationwide have been promised a guaranteed service including an ambulance within 14 minutes in urban areas and 19 minutes in rural areas . |
| 23 | Patients nationwide have been promised an improved service , including an ambulance within 14 minutes in urban areas and 19 minutes in rural areas . |
| 24 | She said that apart from MacQuillan and Barron she did not know who else had been allowed a complete list . |
| 25 | It would almost certainly have been given the same support by the full House had it not been attached to a Bill to reform obscenity law , with which it had no clear or logical connection . |
| 26 | Nuadu was glad that he was unable to speak , for to have done so , to have uttered any kind of sound , would certainly have been to betray the utter revulsion that engulfed him . |
| 27 | These subjects may therefore have been having the same sorts of experience as " dreamers " , but did not label their REM sleep experiences as " dreams " , but " thinking " . |
| 28 | Recently , even those outlets have been drying up because they too have been selling the big breweries ' beer in return for cheap loans . |