Example sentences of "[adv] have been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am certain that the transition could only have been made possible through the dedication ( If those Mr Chips at Halton , who gave their entire working life to the charges of all their students , Men like A.C.K. Kermode , Whittaker , Latimer Needham , Pillars , B.A. Smith and last but not least my dear friend the maths master . |
| 2 | If I ran home , I should only have been sent straight back , in even deeper disgrace . |
| 3 | These , referred to in his diary , may just have been to illustrate special copies of other authors ' guide books . |
| 4 | The regime would scarcely have been considered noteworthy , nor Napoleon III a remarkable sovereign , if all that had been achieved was the creation of a brilliant Court which succeeded in outshining those of the traditional European monarchies . |
| 5 | Some who had tried to steal food from farms behind the Serb lines less than half a mile away had been shot dead . |
| 6 | ‘ How many other farmers hereabouts have been given similar awards ? ’ |
| 7 | The basic purpose of obscenity laws is and always has been to reinforce cultural taboos on sexuality and suppress feminism , homosexuality and other forms of sexual dissidence . |
| 8 | The equipment might possibly have been reconstructed pre-Civil War relics . |
| 9 | Jane is unlikely to earn much sympathy by virtue of the attention given to the environment which produced her dabbling in eventfulness and her poor kiss , and yet the two environments have more in common than would once have been thought possible . |
| 10 | ‘ He clearly has been sold short by God . ’ |
| 11 | Some of the beautifully carved crosses could originally have been re-shaped pagan monuments . |
| 12 | The first pilots to send Luftwaffe bombers spiralling down to crash into the sea were boys , auxiliary pilots who until a few months before had been flying antiquated Gloster Gladiators . |
| 13 | ‘ We have used our experience and our ability to sharpen up our image and our content and for six months now have been using full colour every week . ’ |
| 14 | For some reason anything I have sent to the list today has been returned marked … access denied ; send subscription requests |
| 15 | David Wild has been appointed senior manager at National Westminster Bank 's Albert Road branch in Middlesbrough . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , he did feel that Coastal had a strong claim to the latest 3cm version which could well have been made available to assist with the war at sea if large resources had not been diverted to equip the Main Farce of Bomber Command . |
| 17 | Although intended to further curtail local government expenditure — by requiring authorities to meet any unforeseen expenditure from existing budgets — the effect may well have been to persuade local authorities to set high initial rates ( to provide adequate balances to meet unexpected contingencies or loss of income ) . |
| 18 | It might even have been thought perverse . |
| 19 | The fact that most of the codes and standards incorporated in VDU safety clauses seem frequently to have been taken wholesale from various union guidance documents , raises questions as to how meaningful the discussions on VDUs have been . |
| 20 | However , hopes that defender Mark Ogley would make his debut today have been dashed due to ‘ contractual complications ’ over his move from Aldershot . |
| 21 | The trenches here have been left untouched , eroding away year by year . |
| 22 | It now concentrates on reference ports of its 4GL technolgy for the major chip platforms rather than on specific machines , but of late has been winning downsizing contracts on HP , Sequent and Pyramid hardware . |
| 23 | If he had been briefed for a mission in which he did not participate , he would then have been kept incommunicado until he did finally leave . |
| 24 | A couple of months earlier , Buhler had been introduced to Coleman by Marshall Lee Miller in Washington , and since then had been urging Shaughnessy to talk to Coleman because he had ‘ a great deal of interesting information concerning the crash of Flight 103 ’ . |
| 25 | As Charles Wolf points out there had been mounting Congressional criticism of the Administration 's alleged neglect of Asia and although the strength of Republican feeling had been resisted in the matter of China it was at the cost of a critical concession in Southeast Asia generally — Vietnam in particular — which accorded , nevertheless , with the sentiments and announced global purposes of US policy : to resist communism , to encourage free peoples throughout the world , and to strengthen democratic nations against aggression . |
| 26 | Nor did the war on land make any progress , while those who earlier had been promised English largesse demanded what was due to them . |
| 27 | A large number of smaller companies there have been receiving regional selective assistance since the middle 1980s . |
| 28 | After the disasters of the past few months , a result which would previously have been called disappointing will now be hailed as a triumph . |
| 29 | And whether anyone else had been taken ill . ’ |
| 30 | In this case , the majority decision was criticised as being wrong in law by the Law Commission , and would almost certainly have been found contrary to the European Convention had Thames Television possessed the spirit to appeal to Strasbourg . |