Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] [adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's lucky I was n't in the water then floating , cos that would 've been dangerous with that boat going past . |
| 2 | However , it might be that psychiatric opinion would have been helpful on that aspect of the case . |
| 3 | I did not use a tape recorder for these interviews , though one might have been helpful in some ways , though perhaps inhibiting to my informants in other ways . |
| 4 | Although All Saints is not a listed building , it lies within a conservation area so that any proposal to demolish it would have been subject to same scrutiny as plans for the demolition of a listed building . |
| 5 | me patient should have the right sort of symptoms and should have been subject to some stressful emotional experience before the onset of the illness . |
| 6 | It would have been easy for any of them to say : ‘ I 'm swimming for shore , it 's every man for himself ’ sort of thing , but they did n't . |
| 7 | It can not have been easy for either of them . |
| 8 | It could not have been easy for these men to deliver flocks and herds safely to their destination and the advent of motor transport must have been a blessing to animals . |
| 9 | Neither of us mentioned it : it would have been intolerable for either of us to accept that he was losing his grip . |
| 10 | On the other hand , Kemp was a lightly-built , light-boned man , and it would have been possible for most people here , let us say — anyone reasonably mobile , reasonably fit — to have moved that body at least some small distance . |
| 11 | On Nov. 25 Kohl condemned the attacks and reminded Germans that " without these foreigners , the affluence of this country would not have been possible at all " . |
| 12 | tournament administrator , said : ‘ The tournament really would n't have been possible without this sponsorship . |
| 13 | It would not have been possible without this generous sponsorship by British Gas and we are very grateful to them , ’ said Dick Pringle of Hartcliffe Leisure Ltd . |
| 14 | This book has been written from the US Army 's court-martial records , something which would not have been possible in this country , where such records are closed to the public for 100 years . |
| 15 | Whether it would have been possible against this background of practically continuous fighting in the south , more than a year before the first Vietnam war between France and the Vietminh is usually reckoned to have begun , for either side to have modified its objectives to the point where compromise could have been reached is obviously a question which is relevant to the origins of the Vietnam war and one must therefore look for the characteristics which , at least after the event , suggest a remarkably high risk of collision . |
| 16 | The availability of omeprazole allowed us to achieve complete healing of oesophagitis in all our patients which would not have been possible before this drug was available . |
| 17 | No doubt she should have been alarmed at this thought but she remained excited by it . |
| 18 | And so , Nicodemus would have been familiar with this story , and Jesus says as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness , even so , must the son of man be lifted up , but whoever believes in him may have eternal life . |
| 19 | Dr Dichter would have been proud of that piece of depth thinking . |
| 20 | The proud possessor of a fragment of the Infant Jesus 's vest , a toy he had once played with ( Benjamin would have been proud of that ) , and a hair from St Peter 's beard which could cure the ague or a sore throat . |
| 21 | The old USSR would have been proud of such central control . |
| 22 | The late Ray Petri would have been proud of this issue . |
| 23 | Big Daddy would have been proud of this tackle on Dave Mitchell , but the ref waved play on . |
| 24 | A West Point cadet would have been proud of those shoes already . |
| 25 | The effect of this may have been beneficial to some of the British potters , especially in Oxfordshire where good quality imitations of provincial samian vessels were produced . |
| 26 | Oswiu 's involvement must have been minimal in all of them . |
| 27 | The Professor 's own American sign language would have been unintelligible to those present . |
| 28 | How could he have been capable of such cruelty ? |
| 29 | Hill must have been typical of many mid-Victorian medics who reorientated their social and political allegiances as a result of a shift in class and professional status . |
| 30 | RECONNAISSANCE was of paramount importance in the Pacific War and the Yokosuka R2Y1 Keiun ( Beautiful Cloud ) would have been superb in this role had it entered service . |