Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] [verb] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You said yourself , that hole could have been made at any time . |
| 2 | It was indulging in a relatively straightforward exercise in civil engineering which could have been undertaken at any time during the last 100 years or more . |
| 3 | So if w = 0.5 , this year 's expected rate would be 13 per cent ; if w = 1 , this year 's expected rate would be 16 per cent ( in this case , the expectation is said to have been fully adjusted ) ; if w = 0 , the expectation would be 10 per cent ( that is , it would not have been adjusted at all ) . |
| 4 | Not much enlightenment there ; the same reply could have been given at any time in the past four years . |
| 5 | Many programmers realized that they had been programming things that should never have been taught at all , or that should have been taught by some other method or combination of methods . |
| 6 | Some recently acquired territory may have been lost at this time or soon after . |
| 7 | they provide no way of measuring the salience of an attitude ; we never know whether the attitude would have been expressed at all , or in the same way , apart from the direct question … |
| 8 | To meet this point I think one must say that Bentham 's view was , in effect , that a right action must not only do more good than harm , but must also be such that neither the particular good it does , nor any other comparable good which might have substituted for it , could have been achieved at less cost in terms of harm done . |
| 9 | In a letter to a newspaper , their solicitor Tim Robinson says that his clients should never have been prosecuted at all . |
| 10 | Had our patient been subjected to an exploratory laparotomy during the initial admission the diaphragmatic tear would have been diagnosed at that time . |
| 11 | It seemed almost impossible to many people that such tiny things as micro-organisms could have been fossilised at all . |
| 12 | Horne could have been killed at any hour . |
| 13 | To understand it , we need first to look at the development of Nietzsche 's inner life : the particular temperament and range of interests without which the controversial book would never have been written at all . |
| 14 | Lloyd de Mause reports that ‘ the earliest lives I have found of children who may not have been beaten at all date from 1690 ’ . |
| 15 | The best books of today do not look in the least like Kelmscotts , but without Morris they might never have been created at all . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , the very fact that an explanation should have been created at all tells us quite a lot about the way that the human mind works . |
| 17 | The police officer agreed Anderson would have been charged at that stage if there had been sufficient evidence . |
| 18 | The appeal was not very successful and was condemned by many prominent townspeople , but that it could have been launched at all goes to show that old traditions die hard in the West Country ! |
| 19 | Such schemes almost always represent a very poor true economic return and many would not have been contemplated at all if the substantial grants and HLCAs were unavailable . |
| 20 | Thereafter the time was never judged to be ripe although we were told in oral evidence that , subject to the availability of Ministers , a Defence Committee [ i.e. OD ] meeting could have been held at any time , if necessary at short notice . |
| 21 | In fact we may take it from the wording of Section 2 of the Definition Order that , during the conference questions were asked about the liability of individuals to repatriation , or Section 2 might not have been included at all . |
| 22 | The 1031 annal on Cnut 's visits to Rome and Scotland could have been inserted at this time too . |
| 23 | ‘ We do not believe the public would have been told at all but for us , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 24 | Indeed would it have been told at all ? |
| 25 | The photograph was taken on a favourable day or it could not have been taken at all . |
| 26 | Butler-Sloss LJ said that the meaning of the words " trade secrets " had developed since Herbert Morris v Saxelby and was now interpreted in the wider context of " highly confidential information of a non-technical or non-scientific nature … " . 1.4 The employee 's skill and knowledge Although the courts are anxious to uphold the employer 's right to have his business secrets protected they have ensured that the employee is not prevented from using , once he has left his employer , the general skill and knowledge which he has acquired during employment even though this may have been acquired at some cost to the employer . |
| 27 | Choose one of the four and try to work out what he or she must have been doing at each stage of the carnival . |