Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you could see it like , er but it could easily have been filled in with some wood and nobody would know it was there , yeah |
| 2 | Just to know that there are rapists around who could have been tracked down with this method is justification for a database . |
| 3 | Just to know that there are rapists around who could have been tracked down with this method is justification for a database . |
| 4 | Wallace looked menacing and was through at one point when Burrows hacked him down ( the scouser should have been sent off for that and a clear ‘ professional foul ’ in the second half against Deane ) . |
| 5 | Therefore , most of the King 's resources must have been bound up in those ships and the various uses he could make of them . |
| 6 | 2.27 There must also be a discount for the uncertainties of life : the fact that the deceased might have been run over by another bus on the following day or that he was involved in a particularly hazardous occupation . |
| 7 | So what we know is that this must have been blocked up before this doorway was inserted , okay ? |
| 8 | Yeah so , there 's a bit more , more could have been written down on that . |
| 9 | N well I was I was erm I would have been called up in another two months after the War was over , if the War had continued I would have been eighteen in in that in the following January . |
| 10 | An ordinary person must have been put out by this . |
| 11 | " He could n't have been put in from either bank , because the body was weighted , and it would have sunk in shallow water . |
| 12 | If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago . |
| 13 | Perhaps some courageous reader will insist that the books are ordered , and the tide of semi-literacy will have been held back to that extent through the unsuspected influence of the popular cinema . |
| 14 | They must have been washed up on this ancient beach after being torn from their moorings , perhaps by a storm . |
| 15 | With the benefit of fifteen years ’ experience and from the security of a university in Britain , it is possible to pronounce with considerable confidence upon what should have happened ; to comment owlishly on how untidy and illogical were the processes employed , how more information should have been spelt out with more precision , how more evaluation should have been undertaken sooner , how unreal were our expectations in terms of how quickly and how evenly changes can effectively take place . |
| 16 | The idea may have been worked out with some care or , at the other extreme , it may have been put up spontaneously at a meeting convened to discuss the content of a future programme of activity . |
| 17 | One would have thought that she must have been brought in from that area . |
| 18 | He should not have been allowed out under any circumstances . |