Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That would 've been quite a drive for you all the way to London . |
| 2 | The big push would be diplomatic propaganda screwing the pound sterling on the money markets … mugging the Mother of Parliaments would 've been quite a job . ’ |
| 3 | Yeah , that 's the whole thing , we 've gathered all the information now , we may 've been there an hour , hour an a half , maybe two hours depending upon the appointment so you go back to the office and work on a plan of attack . |
| 4 | The slight increase of residual activity associated with Barrett 's oesophagus may have been partly a result of the uptake of isotype by the Barrett mucosa , and this residual activity did not interfere with calculation of the transit indices . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ It may have been simply a moment of despair and nothing more than that . |
| 6 | How could it have been simply an accident ? |
| 7 | All the more odd , then , that yesterday 's funeral should have been both a celebration of time-honoured Tembu ritual and the most vocal demonstration in years on what the rest of the world calls South African soil of the strength of the ANC and its far from tribalistic affiliate , the South African Communist Party . |
| 8 | I 'm sure it must have been rather a strain to keep pretending an interest in a boring little milliner from Mannheim . ’ |
| 9 | This role may have been rather a disappointment to both sides , as General Gallagher said when he got back from Hanoi , although by opposing the clearance of wartime US mines that had been laid in Haiphong harbour , thus preventing an early return of French troopships , Gallagher seems to have come down rather heavily on the Vietminh side . |
| 10 | Also , half a capful might have been rather a lot , weight for weight . |
| 11 | It started him out on a career which must have been exactly the kind envisaged by Gladstone and the pioneers of the public library system . |
| 12 | Surely , if Handel 's harpsichord truly was given to George III , this would have been exactly the place to find it . |
| 13 | When she complained to a doctor that it was down below freezing she could not have been nearer the mark . |
| 14 | The following paragraph appeared on the last page of a recently published official report : perhaps it should have been nearer the front ! |
| 15 | Had they trebled it they would have been nearer the truth . |
| 16 | By the time this appears I will have been here a year ( 11 January ) . |
| 17 | He did n't actually live in St Aldate 's , but he must have been here a lot , because he was mayor in 1636 , he was an alderman erm he was very much a leading in the city , and I think the leader of the opposition to Royal Policies . |
| 18 | ‘ You should have been here the day before yesterday … ’ they 'd said . |
| 19 | The main reason , main thing is presuming that there must have been refreshments for all these people , probably might have been just a buffet or cup of coffee , or I expect there was probably a lunch laid on , I want to know who footed the bill for the lunch ? |
| 20 | ‘ Maybe I 'd stopped believing , started wondering if things could n't have been just a bit different . |
| 21 | ‘ It could have been just a bush moving in the breeze . |
| 22 | Well that must have been just a bus going . |
| 23 | I doubt whether this implied anything lurid ; it may have been just a consultation . |
| 24 | Thucydides ( ii.22 ) says that Pericles , as general in 431 , ‘ did not summon the Assembly ’ , and though this may have been just an exercise of personal authority , there is another passage ( iv . |
| 25 | Of course the Frótha-frith could have been just an accident , a result of the Incarnation which not even virtuous pagans knew about . |
| 26 | For Goodman , Haynes would have been just the kind of dynamic figure beloved of the Labour Government during its expansive tea-with-the-Beatles phase . |
| 27 | It should have been just the incentive Ipswich needed to take control of the game but instead it was Newcastle who went in at half-time leading . |
| 28 | If his generosity was occasioned by concern at the growth of Edmund 's cult , and its connection with Swegen and taxation , it may have been principally an attempt to mollify the opposition by making much of patronising the saint himself . |
| 29 | It must have been nearly an hour . |
| 30 | ‘ A busy night , ’ said Stan , and it might have been either a statement or a question . |