Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [been] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Natch if the operation had gotten the go-code , that List would only have been part of it . |
| 2 | ( Ironically , there can only have been months between the publication of Hutchinson 's boastful book and calling in the liquidators ) . |
| 3 | As he put it to one of his regional officials : " If Joan of Arc had married and had children , she would not have been Joan of Arc any more . " |
| 4 | if it existed , would also have been a causal circumstance for c , and , we might add , would not have been part of a causal sequence including cc . |
| 5 | In the morning she wondered if her inspection of the villa 's water-works might not have been part of a dream and looked carefully to confirm that the letter to Signora Kettering was still in her handbag . |
| 6 | This would not have been part of the usual flight to Los Angeles . |
| 7 | ‘ I had too much respect for Yule Craig and would not have been part of anything that let him down . |
| 8 | Accordingly it would catch persons who may not have been customers of the plaintiff at the time when the defendant left his employment but who had become customers subsequently . |
| 9 | Neither do I think it altogether heretical to wonder whether some diseases attributed to evil spirits may not have been forms of mental illness . |
| 10 | It may not have been love at first sight — winged ears and gangly legs have limited appeal — but their relationship was meant to be |
| 11 | There may or may not have been divisions of opinion in the ranks of the progressive Alliance , but the Conservatives were all too evidently engaged in fratricidal strife . |
| 12 | Not only is there no suggestion in the biographical sources or in documents that Fahreddin Acemi ever held a kadilik , but there is also positive evidence that for long periods in his Muftilik he could not have been kadi of Edirne , at least , since someone else was . |
| 13 | Between then and now there would not have been time for Newley to drive down to Miller 's End , walk to the gazebo , get himself killed and become as cold as he was . |
| 14 | But these relationships may not have been partnerships in any of the senses that the word is used today . |
| 15 | Altogether I probably interviewed about five hundred persons ( members , parents , deprogrammers , anti-cultists , media etc ) , but not all these interviews were conducted in a systematic way — that is to say , they were with people with whom I happened to make contact , and may not have been representative of the Unification population as a whole . |
| 16 | There was the dark-eyed , slant-featured look of the ancient lost Royal Houses of Ireland in several of them , the glossy hair that might easily have been fur in others . |
| 17 | It surprised me but it could easily have been tiredness from being out so long . |
| 18 | Unlike the passages on Seyh Abdulkerim , Molla Abdulkerim or Molla Yegan , however , about all of whom Mustakimzade has some sort of reservation , this passage on Hizir Bey contains no reference to or any derivation of it ; and it would seem from his particular vagueness in relation to Hizir Bey and his failure to accord him a separate article that while he is aware of the claim that Hizir Bey became Mufti , he is unsure of his relationship to the main stream of Muftis and probably regards him as not having been part of it . |
| 19 | None of these people should ever have been prisoners of conscience . |
| 20 | Even with auxiliary regiments present , there would still have been work for an official to oversee civilian activities . |
| 21 | There would hardly have been harmony between them if they had the same desires , if their interests coincided , if they were a threat to each other . |
| 22 | Only tame , domesticated animals could possibly have been part of the goods and chattels of that early band of pioneers , striking out for a new island home . |
| 23 | There would always have been ambivalence towards her charges because they were not only a means to an end , but also rivals for the limited rations of parental attention . |
| 24 | So I walked beneath the trees and found just under my feet pieces of old concrete and what might once have been bits of wall . |
| 25 | This is conceded in respect of an offence which would once have been larceny by a trick . |
| 26 | The daring actions of slaters , copper and lead and iron miners were described , bringing to life those now deserted valleys throughout the centre of the area which must once have been hives of industry . |
| 27 | According to Mr Scannell , there always have been people in the UK interested in buying property in France ; some existing owners , including accountants , commute to work in the UK every week . |
| 28 | It asks soldiers whether they , their friends or family members are or ever have been members of the IRA , INLA , IRSP , Sinn Fein , the Communist Party or the Connolly Youth Movement . |
| 29 | The clear association of religious cults with the buildings at Chedworth can be much strengthened by the existence of other structures in the vicinity which would probably have been part of a large establishment . |
| 30 | In this large body , very few would have known the pre-Conquest church ; and most of them would probably have been children of the new gentry in the neighbourhood of Canterbury , perhaps with parents of mixed Anglo-Norman origin . |