Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] [verb] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spectacles or low vision aids may have been prescribed in some cases , and teachers should be informed about this . |
| 2 | The Bill might have been opposed in all its stages in both Houses of parliament , and altogether you would have had to spend about £1,000 or £1,200 . |
| 3 | To constitute an offence under those sections the waste must have been deposited on an unlicensed site or in breach of the conditions in the licence , must amount to an ‘ environmental hazard ’ and must have been deposited in such circumstances or for such a period that whoever deposited it there may reasonably be assumed to have abandoned it there or to have brought it there for the purpose of its being disposed as waste . |
| 4 | A substantial amount of prospecting may have been undertaken in some of the areas , but not necessarily for the deposit styles mentioned above . |
| 5 | You may have been born in another country , for instance , and still not feel truly at home in the foreign culture and customs you have come to . |
| 6 | For example , one migrant volunteered to organize the meal served at the annual Harvest Home , but he replaced the traditional supper of Orkney dishes with a meal that could have been served in any restaurant in the south of Scotland . |
| 7 | To say nothing of the fact that ‘ charity ’ should not have been invoked in this issue , the fact was that the excruciating passion levels broke all records on this outing , bust all guts . |
| 8 | Mind , neither Noodle nor Blueboobs would have been sittin' in that room amongst troopies and other enemies , jus ' twiddlin' their thumbs , in the first place … |
| 9 | It could even have been disguised in that box I sent . |
| 10 | It does not even follow that the research base should have been developed in any institution of higher education . |
| 11 | Links with parents and with associated schools — which were reported to be few and far between — could have been developed in this situation . |
| 12 | for he will have been acquitted in any event . |
| 13 | Saw pits have been recognised in some woods — a late medieval one was excavated in Wetmoor , part of the former Horwood in Gloucestershire . |
| 14 | Had we had her account available our guess is that it would have been expressed in such a way as to suggest a quite different kind of story , where personal rather than biological matters were at issue . |
| 15 | Many Libyans especially in the smaller towns had been able to move out of the path of oncoming measures of social justice : many would not have been affected in any case ; some had no doubt been caught . |
| 16 | Channel 4 said the three illustrations which caused all the upset would never have been transmitted in any case without further editing . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , ’ said the Archdeacon , ‘ he would n't have been assessed in any very formal sense . |
| 18 | This new virus now might have been mutated in such a way that the er antibodies which are present at , at the moment , are not able to recognize and destroy this new virus . |
| 19 | But as he was not an upper-class Londoner , we can guess that his testimony would have been rejected in any case . |
| 20 | By 1988 it was claimed that £200 million of Urban Development Grant and Urban Regeneration Grant had successfully ‘ levered ’ more than £800 million of private investment into the inner cities ( although how much of the latter sum might have been invested in any case is difficult to say ) . |
| 21 | Rolle also hints that he might have been damaged in some way . |
| 22 | This information has proved invaluable and could not have been gathered in any other way . |
| 23 | It is also an excellent example of how modern and antique design and furnishing would have been blended in such a house . |
| 24 | The gross domestic product which would have been observed in that month if the prices in the selected base period had prevailed : this is called real gross domestic product ( or gross domestic product at constant prices ) . |
| 25 | Indeed , if the seller 's consent could have been vitiated in that way , Parliament would never have needed to create the statutory offence of obtaining by false pretences . |
| 26 | But it was open , I mean it must have been fenced in some way later on . |
| 27 | Since the seal carvers needed both hands free for their work , the lenses may have been mounted in some way , either on stands on the work-bench or on something like spectacle frames . |
| 28 | Even though the fear of violence may have been justified in this case , the 30-mile zone and the fact that the disorder was expected to emanate from other than the marchers make the implications of the case disturbing , even in the context of Northern Ireland . |
| 29 | It 's thought they may have been drinking in this pub on Wellingborough road earlier in the evening . |
| 30 | Would Mr Amos have been pilloried in this way if the other person had been a female ? |