Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [adv] of the " in BNC.

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1 Ade had raced Yevgeniev a number of times before that , in Paris in 1985 and in the European Indoor of 1984 , and had never beaten him , and I do n't think he would have been ahead of the Russian this time either .
2 News at Ten may have been ahead of the BBC 's Nine O'Clock News in the ratings but last night it seemed unsure of what it was trying to do .
3 If Senna had not either won the race or finished second , he would have been out of the championship .
4 I may have been out of the arena for a while , but I daresay there are still some who remember the old gladiator . ’
5 If he had been in charge , we would have been out of the Community , because that was the basis of his election campaign .
6 And whereas it might be argued that Granada would have kept a strong news operation in Newcastle , control would have been out of the hands of the region .
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