Example sentences of "[vb infin] be [vb pp] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The device could 've been planted as early as Saturday morning and police want to speak to anyone who went there from that time , to when the alarm was raised yesterday . |
| 2 | Journalists do not mind being reminded so long as they do not think you are pressing them to write something they can not be sure will be published . |
| 3 | This brief explanation of Elstir 's originality as an artist might I think be applied equally appropriately to Proust , the novelist . |
| 4 | Visibility and consciousness of women artists ' works will have been raised once again and , with the availability of printed material , documented for further work . |
| 5 | It was an obvious and necessary position which should have been filled long before . |
| 6 | It could have been made by the indigenous people immediately after the conquest , or alternatively features such as the teeth could have been cut much later on the head . |
| 7 | Although the South Downs were cleared at a very early stage in man 's history in Britain , the clearing of the Wealden forest was delayed until the medieval period , the height of the clearance being in the 13th and 14th centuries , although parts may have been cleared as early as the ninth century . |
| 8 | Matters would have been made that much simpler had the guild clerk also been the parish clerk and it might well have been the case in some instances . |
| 9 | This point could not have been made more clearly in July of 1990 by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer , John Major , when in evidence to the Treasury Select Committee of the House of Commons he said : |
| 10 | I doubt such a venture could have been undertaken so rapidly elsewhere . |
| 11 | I think my desire to train a bird of my own must have been born right there in Colchester Park . |
| 12 | If the island did become detached in the way he suggests , then the mountainous regions in the south would have been separated far longer than the northern parts . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , Hong Kong 's flora and fauna are basically that of neighbouring China , though some islands must have been separated long enough to produce their own endemic species . |
| 14 | Otherwise you 'd have been swept away again . ’ |
| 15 | More important than that ( for medieval village buildings could have been swept away as easily as the Romans had swept away the native British buildings for their planned towns ) — a variety of ownerships and rights had grown up that precluded a unified plan even as early as the twelfth or thirteenth century . |
| 16 | I know a couple of places using stuff that should have been declared dead long ago . ’ |
| 17 | However , our earliest manuscript of Exodus dates from about 250 BC , and all agree that it is not an original and that Exodus must have been composed much earlier . |
| 18 | The boil of misgovernment would have been lanced very quickly and a long festering crisis of confidence in the integrity of the system would have been avoided . |
| 19 | Apparently the CS-US association must have been formed relatively normally , even in subjects given pre-exposure to the CS , because appropriate conditions of testing ( i.e. the use of a long retention interval ) were able to reveal the existence of a strong aversion . |
| 20 | The boy was still obliged to give his earnings every week to his family , otherwise he would have been dragged unceremoniously home and that was something Hari would not allow . |
| 21 | OK , that 's an isolated episode , but had a feminist film crew gone out to make a documentary about wife battering I do n't think it could have been done more successfully . |
| 22 | ‘ Lord Justice Bingham concluded that perhaps that could have been done more fully , but a careful reading of the report discloses that on several occasions that is precisely what Price Waterhouse did . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Something small , which might have been hidden almost anywhere . |
| 24 | Normally , Edwin would have been missed much earlier . " |
| 25 | ‘ As a result of the collision he sustained fatal injuries and would probably have been rendered unconsciously almost instantly , ’ he said . |
| 26 | It is hardly surprising , therefore , that in relation to a ‘ Money Bill ’ , the Lords should have been rendered even more impotent . |
| 27 | they could have been lost quite easily . |
| 28 | The final section must have been built very quickly , because the path finished at the forest edge when I was there a couple of months ago . |
| 29 | In one instance , when a local authority was asked to approve a bridge , which could have been built relatively cheaply , the authority refused because , it said , the bridge must be suitable for use by the disabled . |
| 30 | HAD anyone suggested back in December that Scotland would be in a position to win the Triple Crown by the last match of 1993 , just after the A XV had played Italy , they would probably have been led quietly away for a mental examination . |