Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly without the deprivation payments some good inner city practices would have been bankrupted by the new contract . |
| 2 | That is to say neither do I believe , in the terms of classical Christology , that Jesus of Nazareth could have had , as well as his human nature , a divine nature ; nor do I believe that he could have been raised from the dead , so acquiring uniqueness through God 's act of raising him . |
| 3 | That may change ; for , in recent years , developments in banking and commercial circles have led to the invention of a remarkable array of new and highly sophisticated types of ‘ securitised ’ loan investments as a result of which finance , which would formerly have been raised by a straightforward bank loan ( for most purposes not a debenture ) may be obtained through the issue of instruments , some of which for most purposes unquestionably are debentures and others of which may or may not be . |
| 4 | By using individual company case-studies and macro-economic evidence , this research will provide some answers to the questions of why these alternatives failed , and whether productivity could have been raised by a general adoption of different incentive and reward structures in industry . |
| 5 | It may even have been increased by the new Article 92 , in spite of the continuing ban on discrimination on the basis of nationality . |
| 6 | Civil Service have conceded fewer goals than any other team in the division , and had Howell not taken the decision to stand down from the top flight , he could have been elevated to the Scottish senior international training squad this summer . |
| 7 | They must have been riding for a long time , but there was no sign of a large town , only a solitary light shining ahead . |
| 8 | It is very important that credit is given for any UK tax which may have been borne by an overseas trust . |
| 9 | He was a young man , probably no more than twenty ; his teeth were worn down to the stumps by rough ground corn , the tops so sliced through they might have been cut with a circular saw and the resulting surface polished with emery paper . |
| 10 | Vast masses of people were subject to conditions that would barely have been tolerated in the Dark Ages . |
| 11 | The aim of creating a sense of prime loyalty among members of the colony , which was small enough for them to know each other , did not constitute any kind of a threat to central authorities in 1922 , but it would not have been tolerated in the 1930s , when family members were encouraged to spy on one another in the state interest . |
| 12 | Efforts to help them have been hampered by a crippling shortage of transport and medicine . |
| 13 | There is an habitual inability to see the logical wood for the emotional trees , as the less discerning will have been proving since the final whistle sounded at Celtic Park . |
| 14 | What a mystery it is , the way we carry on , thought Liz , as she moved on to more congenial entertainment : remembering , suddenly , the oft-repeated claim of an Austrian refugee analyst of her acquaintance , who frequently and unashamedly rejoiced in having had in his house at one time no less than five Nobel Prize winners , a claim which she had always found endearing , ridiculous , foolish , alarming , comic , in its nai¨veté , its precision , its ruthlessness : remembering the alarms and excitement of her own early encounters with the famous , the great , the titled , the rich : remembering the ancient yearning to crowd her life with people , with voices , with telephone calls , invitations , children , friends of children : remembering , in short the dread of solitude , the dread of reliving her mother 's unending , inexplicable , still-enduring loneliness : and across these memories , flitting in a half second , as she made her way , for light relief , towards Kate Armstrong , fortifying Kate , came the question — why did Henrietta Latchett , who must have been invited to a hundred parties tonight , who could never have known a lonely evening , why did she choose to come to us ? |
| 15 | Another 20 who can not face seeing the area have been invited to the British ambassador 's villa at Kakami . |
| 16 | Geologists , mapping the site , found it difficult to understand how they could have been shaped by the normal forces of erosion . |
| 17 | This is slightly less than would have been obtained on an ordinary fixed deposit for 90 days at 10 per cent . |
| 18 | It is Alan Usher 's contention that if this evidence had come to light before the trial , a third opinion could have been obtained from a specialist paediatric pathologist . |
| 19 | I came to believe that Yá2wshu must have been descended from the importunate widow , for he seldom left me alone in those early months , and I was glad to crawl under my mosquito net at night , only to be woken at earliest dawn by my faithful and dutiful friend . |
| 20 | Here and there minor changes in field boundaries may have been made during the past 150 or 200 years , but on the whole the enclosure map lays down the present-day pattern exactly . |
| 21 | I would have preferred black pipework to white , for its unobtrusiveness but , more to the point , the hopper itself could have been made of a darker and heavier-gauge material . |
| 22 | Still it suggests that some profit might even have been made of the Tilberthwaite work . |
| 23 | I revised a relatively brief article in line with the referees ' comments only to receive a new set of comments which raised points that could have been made at the first submission . |
| 24 | The purchaser claimed under two heads , first for the capital loss and secondly for his loss of profits — the latter head being based on the difference over three years between the profits made at the machine 's actual rate of output and the higher profits which would have been made at the warranted rate of output . |
| 25 | Decorated metalwork and pottery can , in addition , be studied by the measurement of elements in designs to determine which objects may have been made at the same source , using the same tools , or even by the same craftsman . |
| 26 | ‘ A few years ago we thought the Butter Market could have been made into a little museum but it would have been difficult to cross the roads into it . ’ |
| 27 | Although the game against the All Blacks was entertaining , the flaws in the Boks line-up were evident to see and changes should have been made for the following encounter with the World Champions . |
| 28 | The Zuccarelli recordings so far demonstrated could well have been made with a simple dummy head , incorporating reflectors or circuits to emphasise this effect . |
| 29 | Originally this would have been made with the Moroccan pastry ouarka , but filo pastry is fine . |
| 30 | The entry into Jerusalem can only have been made with the calculated design of identifying himself , very specifically in the eyes of the populace , with the expected Messiah — in other words , with the rightful king , the ‘ anointed one ’ . |