Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] been [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her best coat would perhaps have been better because it would make her look as though she had n't let herself go , but on the other hand her frightful old lumber jacket would have suggested , what was true enough , that she was worried enough not to care . |
| 2 | The result might perhaps have been different if the money was in a collecting box . |
| 3 | Sharp rises in the national export statistics in both 1523–4 and 152 rule out any general depression ; any unemployment can only have been temporary and localised , as the disorders in the eastern counties were not repeated on the same scale anywhere . |
| 4 | To accept that whatever she had done or promised or performed to maintain her position in Market Square then her choice could only have been that or the workhouse . |
| 5 | Clearly the prices shown would only have been achievable if 8.9 per cent p.a. were the prevailing rate of return on Treasury bills throughout the 91 days . |
| 6 | By that time — possibly as little as a year and a half after Jesus 's death — they must already have been widespread and numerous , because Paul , acting on behalf of the established Sadducee priesthood and armed with warrants from the High Priest , undertakes to hunt them out as far away as Damascus . |
| 7 | ‘ He might already have been dead when he fell on the fire , in which case he would n't have known anything about it . ’ |
| 8 | I think that two two might just have been fair but whatever , as I said before the game , if we win we 'll be delighted however it happens . |
| 9 | 0–0 at half time ( Poland had a couple of chances ) was 3–0 to us at the end — and could easily have been 5 or 6 . |
| 10 | In the middle of the trivia , the stuff that could easily have been 1930 or 1960 , there was information for the gleaning . |
| 11 | Whereas in the immediate aftermath of the Manifesto , the landed nobility and conservative interests generally had been disorientated and ill-organized during 1906 their influence over the government was rapidly consolidated . |
| 12 | Diesel always has been lead-free and the only adjustments you need to make are mental ones , because diesel-powered cars are no longer slow , smelly or noisy . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm told that he may still have been alive when the murderer , or murderers , hammered the shaft through his neck and into the floor of the hut . |
| 14 | By last Thursday , Mrs Thatcher may still have been unpopular but Thatcherism was not . |
| 15 | This would hardly have been necessary if at that time they were in a position to dictate the policy and actions of the association . |
| 16 | Having watched the ignominious departure of Mr Jakes , the president himself — which Mr Husak had become — can hardly have been surprised that his own head was now being demanded on a platter . |
| 17 | She can hardly have been surprised that the spotlight stayed on her marriage — her husband is , after all , the man who will be our next king . |
| 18 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 March 1991 the defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the donee of the power of appointment , the defendant 's mother , Mrs. Mary Steed , did not know that she had been appointed attorney by the defendant and accordingly could not have known that she had any power to deal with his property when she executed the transfer of 4 September 1979 , and that in those circumstances the plea of non est factum ought to have succeeded on the judge 's finding that the donee was tricked into signing the transfer ; ( 2 ) the judge having rightly concluded that the transaction as affected was not a sale , save possibly at such a gross undervalue as to vitiate it as a sale , should therefore have held that the transfer was void and ineffective ; ( 3 ) the judge having rightly concluded that he retained a discretion to rectify the charges register against the registered holder , notwithstanding , as he found , that ( i ) the title of the mortgagors , Mr. and Mrs. Hammond , was merely voidable and not void , and ( ii ) that the registered holders of the charge were bona fide mortgagees for value without notice of the facts giving rise to voidability , then wrongly exercised his discretion to refuse to rectify since the considerations in favour of rectification could hardly have been stronger and his refusal to exercise his discretion was tantamount to denying the effective existence of such discretion , as if it was not exercised on the facts of this case it could never , or virtually never , be exercised at all ; and that , in the premises , the judge had erred in law in placing excessive reliance upon ( i ) and ( ii ) above to the exclusion of the other considerations which favoured rectification . |
| 19 | He could not possibly have been confident that McKenna would refuse : the former Chancellor 's three days of hesitation is proof against this . |
| 20 | It was hard — might possibly have been cruel but with most pupils it worked . |
| 21 | It looked like two rooms in one , because that 's what it was ; Joe had recognised the layout as that of a disused encounter studio , a place whose sole commodity would once have been three or four minutes of stilted conversation with a naked woman in the armchair . |
| 22 | She was in her late thirties , lean and strong , too neat and plain of feature ever to have been beautiful but her large grey eyes were intelligent and full of wilfulness and energy . |
| 23 | Friends will probably have been available when needed ; and outings to cinema , theatre , relatives , pub or restaurant will have broken up evenings and weekends with pleasant variety . |
| 24 | When she nodded , he went on , ‘ It would probably have been better if we had discussed it right at the beginning , and certainly when we realised we were becoming attracted to each other . ’ |
| 25 | Had Andrewes remained in Cambridge , his reputation would probably have been unblemished but he would have lacked the stimulus to write the magnificent sermons which he preached at Court ; and he would not willingly have engaged in the controversial writing in which for the first time he set out the Anglican Church 's position in terms which European scholars could respect ; above all his Preces , even had they been written , would not have contained the breadth of experience , and the depth of feeling , based on that experience , which made them treasures of the Church . |
| 26 | The investigators found no evidence that the Maya returned to the San Antonio locality to farm during Classic times , which , they suggest would probably have been impractical because of increased coastal flooding . |
| 27 | The reduction in the nature conservation interest will probably have been slight and reintroduction of light grazing may well have prevented a decline in floristic diversity in some upland , species-rich grasslands traditionally subject to such grazing . |
| 28 | There are dresses for £2.99 , but some go up to £20 , but would probably have been two or three times that when new . |
| 29 | One of the people with the piano might have had a pencil between their teeth , but would probably have been annoyed if we had taken it to mean the pencil and said : |
| 30 | The allegation does not disclose how the problem was to be resolved and in any event assumes that the difficulty can be solved by an agreement between the plaintiff and the defendants whereas the intervention and agreement of Mr. Brant would also have been necessary if any concrete step were to be taken . |