Example sentences of "have [been] [verb] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first thing that strikes me is that my aunt — an almost complete stranger as far as I was concerned — should have been there at all , within the family circle where no friend or neighbour was allowed , and thus in a privileged position to make personal remarks of the type which would not have been tolerated from any other quarter . |
| 2 | Formerly , a centre offering these three types of SCOTVEC provision within one cognate area would have been visited by three different external verifiers . |
| 3 | This may partly reflect the fact that many aspects of the situation ( road layout , signs , shops etc. ) were deliberately excluded on the basis that they could have been obtained from previous local knowledge . |
| 4 | Neither viewpoint is absolute , but some reference should have been made to several recent studies of evolutionary rates in the Pleistocene mammals of Europe . |
| 5 | Such a dramatic movement of peoples could not have been undertaken by any other contemporary transportation method , and must reflect remarkable activity at the hundreds of newly built stations throughout the system . |
| 6 | People who are only mildly mentally handicapped may have been born with average mental abilities , in the sense that there was no identifiable problem inherent in the pregnancy or birth . |
| 7 | In any case , lest anyone think the Royal Society of Chemistry had pandered to Elena Ceauşescu 's vanity , he assured the public that ‘ the fellowship was presented at a ceremony no grander than would have been arranged for any other spouse of a head of state . ’ |
| 8 | With no trouble in selling their products , Champagne houses should have been heartened by such healthy expansion , but theirs was a labour-intensive business , where every bottle produced was taken through each stage of a complex operation by hand . |
| 9 | However , the first segment would have given a British hearer immediate access to the contextual assumption about house-warming parties , which means that the extra processing entailed by making these assumptions explicit would not have been rewarded by any contextual effect . |
| 10 | Indeed , the Stamford Taurus might have been formed by early Mycenean settlers , as a representation of a Mycenean dagger carved into Stonehenge proves that people of that race were in Britain at the time . |
| 11 | Darwin wrote ( in The Origin of Species ) : If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous successive slight modifications , my theory would absolutely break down . |
| 12 | One hundred and twenty five years on , we know a lot more about animals and plants than Darwin did , and still not a single case is known to me of a complex organ that could not have been formed by numerous successive slight modifications . |
| 13 | We need to find people to buy these places so that we can sort of balance the books , but one wonders , you know , could n't something have been done with that empty building for two years while there are folk in the area with nowhere to live . |
| 14 | The work was done , as it happens , on Sun and DEC workstations running UNIX , but , as far as this paper is concerned , could have been done on any networked computers . |
| 15 | I told them the arguments put forward by Visual Effects , only to be told in return manufacturing a conical base would have been much easier as it could all have been done from one two-part mould in half the time . ’ |
| 16 | Does the Secretary of State imagine that such figures could have been given to any other Parliament in the European Community — especially in a country that had enjoyed a North sea oil bonanza over the years ? |
| 17 | Georgi Markov , the Bulgarian dissident writer , recalled the first speech given by a new factory director which could have been given by any Romanian middle-ranking cynical conformist when put in charge of an operation by an arbitrary decision from the top . |
| 18 | Many programmers realized that they had been programming things that should never have been taught at all , or that should have been taught by some other method or combination of methods . |
| 19 | The irony of this statement would not have been lost on any Ghanaian journalist working in the period under Nkrumah from 1957 to 1966 , for this was exactly what happened to Ghana 's newspapers : they became sycophantic , uncritical mouthpieces for the president and his view of that country , Africa and the world . |
| 20 | Mama was rehearsing , that was all ; but it should perhaps have been kept for some other time . |
| 21 | Indeed , the happiness of many marriages may in part have been based on mutual sexual satisfaction . |
| 22 | In their view the Commission were giving Article 100A an unduly wide construction and were using it for proposals which should properly have been based on some alternative Article of the EEC Treaty , such as Article 100 or Article 235 , which required unanimity in the Council . |
| 23 | Ben may not have been much of a theatre-goer , but he would no doubt have been fascinated by one unexpected visit in the June of 1801 : |
| 24 | The pioneering work of these men provided a bedrock of knowledge and experience without which the later railway system could not have been constructed with such astonishing speed . |
| 25 | Thus , we can not rule out the possibility that the increased risk of coronary heart disease among young men with no teeth may have been related to previous dental decay . |
| 26 | That is , an authority may rely on considerations which do not apply to its subjects when doing so reliably leads to decisions which approximate better than any which would have been reached by any other procedure , to those decisions best supported by reasons which apply to the subjects . |
| 27 | ‘ The way he has transformed the Labour Party into a position of strength is something that could n't have been achieved by any other leader in our history , and not by any other Party member at the moment . ’ |
| 28 | This information has proved invaluable and could not have been gathered in any other way . |
| 29 | Second , he turned down a proposal from the Kennedy administration to create a Multilateral Nuclear Force ( MLF ) , in which British and French nuclear forces would have been integrated with some American forces under NATO command . |
| 30 | It follows the publication of medical research which says men who 've worked for the Atomic Energy Authority and may have been exposed to certain radioactive materials have more than twice the normal risk of developing prostate cancer . |