Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes they transgress a little , in their irreverant use of materials , — as in Hazel Bruce 's mosaic-like ‘ Pavement Fragment I ’ , with its burned , layered and cut silk and paper — and function may have been jettisoned , but the decorative and iconographic nature of traditional embroidery remains : flowers and gardens ( often rather sugary ) and figuration ( with ‘ naive ’ and awkward drawing ) . |
| 2 | If we had n't have put them out then serious injury and damage could have been done to property . |
| 3 | If the modified , more falsifiable , hypothesis resists falsification in the face of the new tests , then something new will have been learnt and progress will have been made . |
| 4 | Differential compaction of the peat and silt may have been involved as well . |
| 5 | Such metalwork and fabric may have been decorated in a way which conveyed meaning to the wearer and the viewer , but all of the artefacts whose technology we have considered had , first and foremost a function to their owners . |
| 6 | It is evident from the massive character of the great border dyke which Asser in his Life of Alfred in the late ninth century attributes to Offa ( Life of King Alfred , ch. 14 ) , running from Sedbury Cliffs near Chepstow to Treuddyn , linking up now with Wat 's Dyke which ends at Basingwerk in north Wales , that considerable energy and manpower must have been devoted to the delineation , construction and maintenance of this frontier line . |
| 7 | I believe that the lessons learnt from my first five years of trial and error could have been imparted to me in a few days by any half-decent panner . |
| 8 | It is also an excellent example of how modern and antique design and furnishing would have been blended in such a house . |
| 9 | However such power and influence should have been balanced by checks built in to protect those falling foul of an individual BAT leader . |
| 10 | But we know that that pain and suffering could have been avoided had you accepted earlier advice . |
| 11 | There can be no doubt that much time and skill would have been required to produce such an ornate and complex piece of metalwork ; the investment required was no doubt matched by the importance of the person for whom it was made and with whom it was buried with coins dated AD 622–629 at Sutton Hoo ( Brown 1981b ) . |
| 12 | The images of honour and assassination could have been culled from the pages of a novel by Mario Puzo . |
| 13 | If ever artifice and device should have been foregone in favour of uncluttered simplicity in the recounting of experience , this was a case in point . |
| 14 | because she is not , the eggs she sheds will be wasted and contraception will have been achieved . |
| 15 | A few minutes , and Aldhelm would have been stirring and hauling himself to his feet . |
| 16 | Subsequently what had been no more than a name implying a certain diplomatic affiliation between the Franks and Valentinian must have been interpreted as providing a genuine indication of the origins of the Franks . |
| 17 | Intervention of such a scope and magnitude would have been resented by the mass of the … people , would have diametrically reversed our historic policy , and would have been condemned by the American people . |
| 18 | But if it did , it was apparently to have been a big affair — no mere helicopter-borne ‘ surgical strike ’ — in which sheer weight of numbers and firepower could have been expected to guarantee ultimate success . |
| 19 | Even if we were ultimately victorious at a public inquiry , the church would have suffered so grievously during the Waiting period that a large part of its artistic quality and integrity would have been lost . |
| 20 | To have acknowledged social depression and despair would have been to have identified anger . |
| 21 | George 's disbelief and shock must have been mirrored in his face , as he saw the scar which marred the otherwise handsome features . |
| 22 | Alternative ways of organising teaching and learning must have been introduced to replace the standard didactic pattern . |
| 23 | Had they returned the Americans would certainly not have expected another raid and victory would have been assured for the Japanese . |
| 24 | And so what he 's trying to do is to as Andrea says erm uncover the truth , get to the , get to what really happened as it were , under the layers of myth and distortion could have been introduced in the Bible story , and as I said if you read the book erm and it is quite fascinating in many ways , it is a bit like a detective story because what Freud does is he tries to get to the truth by analyzing the , the actual texts and the texts contains discrepancies and anybody who 's ever tried to erm edit a book , learns this to their cost actually , but er you find no matter how carefully you change things , there 's usually things you miss , little discrepancies that give away how it was the first time and er Freud 's view is this , this has happened very much to the Bible , it 's been so heavily edited and re-written and later the the various editings show and if you read it very critically , you can begin to see perhaps the underlying pattern er coming through and erm just as you can tell for instance by reading Genesis , that it 's a of two accounts because there are two stories , the first story is Chapter One of Genesis , then in Chapter Three or something there 's a second story repeats it with variations . |
| 25 | The Manwarings ' family notified the police days after the murders , fearing at first that father and daughter might have been kidnapped . |
| 26 | In McKerrel v Robertson [ 1956 ] SLT 290 a woman pushing a pram was held to have been one entity and precedence should have been accorded where the pram was on the crossing but the pusher was still on the pavement . |
| 27 | By Caroline Storah , crime reporter AN axe , sledgehammer and petrol can have been recovered from the scene of a woodlands fire by detectives hunting the killers of Liverpool couple Gary Pettitt and Jean Larkin . |
| 28 | When a problem develops , the hope will be that the client will be able to resolve it by discussion with the solicitor or other person dealing with his case ( whose identity and status must have been disclosed upon acceptance of instructions ) . |
| 29 | However , no finds of this type are known from Chedworth , although a number of agricultural implements were found in the excavations , including a plough-tip ; some other tools such as the spade-iron and mattock could have been used for gardening . |
| 30 | Thus the weight given to values such as thrift and respectability may have been articulated in terms of the dominant ideology , but they still have to be understood as outcrops of a distinctive social experience . |