Example sentences of "[noun prp] [modal v] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever Aachen may have been in the past , it has settled down now to being a prosperous commercial town with few pretensions . |
| 2 | Welsh rulers , with whom Offa may have been at war and who possibly ruled in British territory subject to him , could have been among the kings of the Scots ( Irish ) who recognized the lordship of Charlemagne . |
| 3 | Police believe the Sierra may have been on its way to take part . |
| 4 | Although he had many substantial patrons , Evesham may have been in financial straits in the mid-1620s . |
| 5 | If so , Cnut 's attack on Ely may have been after 1016 . |
| 6 | Their home was in London and Fanshawe must have been in a hurry . |
| 7 | We thought Jean might have been with Garry in the fire but there is no evidence to suggest that she is there now . ’ |
| 8 | She had said it was her niece because the girl was young and had black hair and because who else but Nora Fanshawe could have been in that car with her parents ? |
| 9 | She groaned and turned over , hoping she would fall asleep again , but her brain insisted on relaying pictures of her twin , so vividly that Dana could have been in the same room . |
| 10 | The square piano , mentioned above , signed ‘ Gottfried Silbermann , fevr. 1749 ’ was probably made by Johann Gottfried , so Stein would have been in Strasbourg when this instrument with the German action but no escapement was finished . |
| 11 | She estimated what the size of the labour force in the United States would have been in 1960 by making two assumptions : ( a ) if death rates had not declined since 1900 , the labour force would have been over 13 million less in 1960 ; ( b ) if death rates had declined from 1900–1920 but remained the same level after that , the labour force would have been 6 million smaller in 1960 . |
| 12 | In this case , Aldfrith would have been in his early fifties when he became king , yet his marriage to Cuthburh , sister of Ine , king of the West Saxons ( ASC A , s.a 718 ) ( unlikely to have occurred earlier ) , and his subsequent fathering of Osred , born c . |
| 13 | Relations between Lang and Salmond are not good at the best of times but , given that the SNP had been in the same lobby as the Government the night before , it might have been expected that Lang would have been at least polite . |
| 14 | However , due to the short notice , Randalstown would have been without four key players on May 15 which was pencilled in as the reserve date . |
| 15 | That investigation had been initiated under rule 7.9(1) ( b ) of the Rules on the direction of the Chief Executive to the chief enforcement officer in the light of evidence that had come to Lautro 's attention suggesting that Norwich Union might have been in breach of various of the rules in failing adequately to monitor the business and operations of the Winchester Group and to ensure compliance with the Code of Conduct . |
| 16 | Cardiff might have been in charge , but you 're the one who provided the evidence . ’ |
| 17 | Suggestions that the Bank of England may have been behind the operation were rejected by market professionals . |
| 18 | There is one , indeed , in which Grahame must have been among the last to take part : the tradition of the ‘ Kimbly Cake ’ . |
| 19 | Marley must have been like that himself . |
| 20 | The shot that came back off Shilton 's bar in the last minute in Chorzow — a couple of inches lower , and England might have been on their way out of the World Cup — was a symbolic warning . |
| 21 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |
| 22 | The population of these three conurbations was over 8 million which when added to a similar population in London meant that approximately one-third of the population of England would have been within areas covered by a two-tier structure of local government . |
| 23 | If the line-out were a simple matter of one man outjumping another , then England would have been in the driving seat . |
| 24 | Stallholder Pete would have been among those killed and Wicksy would have been paralysed . |
| 25 | Indeed : if even boys were really to be left on an island I do not think that Simon would have been amongst them ; he is very much a symbol rather than a character , and represents the force of good in Golding 's book . |
| 26 | No , cos John Collier could have been in there , John , John played erm two matches when Chris was injured . |
| 27 | However amenable to overseas influence Boiotia may have been in the prehistoric period ( p. 83 ) , classical , fourth-century and hellenistic Boiotia was in many respects deeply conservative and introverted . |
| 28 | Katharin McMILLAN wife of DUNCAN McKENZIE should have been with them but by that time was dead . |
| 29 | Prentice must have been near the top of the class . |
| 30 | Wallace was great even when he took a knock early in the 2nd half ( Strandli should have been on sooner ) . |