Example sentences of "[adv] have been [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Though you have to remember that an ‘ unsuccessful ’ medium may just have been misused in previous attempts . ) |
| 2 | He gave , as a further reason , that had no request been made for a receipt , fingerprints could easily have been obtained in other ways , e.g. , by dusting the counter . |
| 3 | I can still remember the intense excitement of ‘ listening in ’ to pre-war Nationals on Friday afternoons that , many years later , seem always to have been bathed in bright spring sunshine . |
| 4 | Much of the remainder of the village 's pasture land would also have been held in common and consisted probably of rough grazing , perhaps within a wood . |
| 5 | Large investments in this area also have been made in recent years , as indicated in Table 11.14 . |
| 6 | A total of seven people were reported so far to have been killed in similar circumstances . |
| 7 | The gulls you see cadging bread in London parks could just as well have been born in Finnish Lapland as on the North Kent marshes — it 's impossible to tell from their plumage . |
| 8 | As a student wizard Rincewind had never achieved high marks in precognition , but now unused circuits in his brain were throbbing and the future might as well have been engraved in bright colours on his eyeballs . |
| 9 | The Ridgeway in Wiltshire and Berkshire may well have been used in prehistoric times , but probably no more so than the line of the A4 across the same counties . |
| 10 | It is certainly true that many of the by-roads in an area such as this may well have been used in Roman times though it is difficult to prove . |
| 11 | The answer is probably that workers come a lot cheaper in China , but the money they have saved that way could surely have been doubled in extra sales — not to mention saving on shipping costs — if they had been made in a British factory . |
| 12 | He climbed them sadly until finally he reached a low corridor , which many years ago had been decorated in dark brown : the paint had been flaking off for years . |
| 13 | Compulsion could then have been justified in Confucian teachings without there being widespread acceptance of its moral codes . |
| 14 | Consultants and senior registrars are not rewarded for teaching and seldom have been trained in educational methods . |
| 15 | Although numbers have declined , 14 of them still survive , and recently have been appearing in colourful advertising liveries , as seen on this page . |