Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is very important that credit is given for any UK tax which may have been borne by an overseas trust . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Efforts to help them have been hampered by a crippling shortage of transport and medicine . |
| 6 | This is slightly less than would have been obtained on an ordinary fixed deposit for 90 days at 10 per cent . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | The Zuccarelli recordings so far demonstrated could well have been made with a simple dummy head , incorporating reflectors or circuits to emphasise this effect . |
| 10 | Secondary wax models may have been made from a durable master model ( Holmqvist 1972 , p. 24 ) . |
| 11 | To constitute an offence under those sections the waste must have been deposited on an unlicensed site or in breach of the conditions in the licence , must amount to an ‘ environmental hazard ’ and must have been deposited in such circumstances or for such a period that whoever deposited it there may reasonably be assumed to have abandoned it there or to have brought it there for the purpose of its being disposed as waste . |
| 12 | Calculations using this minimum sedimentation rate , and taking an average lamina thickness of 100 micrometres , suggests at least annual deposition of mats , although more than one mat layer may have been deposited from a single mat forming event ( concentrations of up to 4.4m -3 have been reported for Rhizosolenia mats ) . |
| 13 | Well of course this process pr could just as easily have been progressed through a full scale review of the structure plan rather than an alteration . |
| 14 | At first it was thought the men may have been stabbed with a broken pool cue . |
| 15 | A clay model from Arkhanes , and dating from the very end of the Minoan civilization , shows the sort of modest shrine that may have been erected in a sacred enclosure : an oval hut with a conical roof , entrance doors and a cult idol inside . |
| 16 | On June 10 Zenawi criticized the previous regime for accepting a payment in connection with the migration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel [ see pp. 38174-75 , which , he said , " should have been handled as a humanitarian problem " . |
| 17 | Had the German attack been mounted on 12 February , as planned , the French , caught as it were in transit — for though now aware of the impending peril they were only beginning to bring up reinforcements — must have been overcome in a total and horrible manner . |
| 18 | And fifteen minutes later , with all the completed questionnaires returned , there was good reason to suppose that Morse could be right , since three of those concerned , Eddie Stratton , Howard Brown , and John Ashenden , appeared temporarily unable to provide corroboration of their individual whereabouts and activities during the key period of the previous afternoon — the afternoon when the original groups , three of them , had been re-formed slightly ( following Kemp 's telephone call ) , and when anyone wishing to absent himself for some purpose would have been presented with a wonderful opportunity so to do . |
| 19 | The existence of possible bilingual wordplay within the poem — fol and con — suggests that Dame Sirith may have been composed with a bilingual audience in mind , but it does not match the features of the Anglo-Norman fabliaux identified by van den Boogard . |
| 20 | There is a bitter twist of irony in these last lines which completely changes the complexion of what might before have been viewed as a sentimental poem . |
| 21 | Moreover , it should be noted that according to this distinction the central detail in the Christianson and Loftus ( 1991 ) study might well have been categorized as a peripheral detail . |
| 22 | Leading the rise were the prices of privatisation shares which would have been threatened by a Labour government . |
| 23 | I am happy to welcome that investment , and I imagine that it owes much to the climate and environment that the Government have created and which might have been threatened by an alternative settlement at Maastricht such as the Opposition would have supported and implemented if they were ever elected . |
| 24 | He put them in central midfield — and he would have been rewarded with a vital home win but for Gary Speed 's late equaliser . |
| 25 | Having observed Thatcher 's boorish behaviour , Abse comments : ‘ Such a jealous and ruthless super-ego can only have been formed by a prohibiting mother who is brusque and prematurely insists upon early toilet training . ’ |
| 26 | If this were true , and if oceanic crust was being generated at all the oceanic ridges in the world at this rate throughout geological history , then the entire present oceanic crust could have been formed in a mere couple of hundred million years , and therefore , without some other kind of process acting , there would be a vast quantity of spare oceanic crust lying around . |
| 27 | As silica is only mobilised in strongly alkaline environments and as gypsum and other soluble salts occur in the underlying zone of weathering , it is suggested that they may have been formed in an arid environment . |
| 28 | If he had really done that he would have been dragged before a disciplinary hearing . ’ |
| 29 | Things could have been done in an underhand way , but I insisted that Hibs ask for permission to speak to me . |
| 30 | Hunting may well have been seen as a pleasurable distraction , but from a practical point of view the bow and arrow is more useful . |