Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poking his head out from the cab , to get a little cooling draught , he noticed that they were about to enter a long deep cutting and marvelled at the way the cutting must have been cut through almost solid rock . |
| 2 | Never could they have been visited by so many young girls . |
| 3 | A reasonable assumption to make on the basis of the instructions given to registrars before 1986 , therefore , is that most of the deaths of children classified as unoccupied will have been registered by economically inactive lone mothers . |
| 4 | and the basis , basics would have been by the end of next week but certain , assuming that they are not interrupted and sort of dragged onto something more lucrative the bad news will have been quantified by then . |
| 5 | We gain an impression of the quantities of oak involved from the estimates for the building ; the 55 m³ ; would have been obtained from about 18 mature oaks . |
| 6 | The Brougham milestone dates to AD 258–68 , so that the civitas must have been constituted by then . |
| 7 | He said arrangements should have been made to actually take him to a medical officer and said he should not have been allowed to leave Comber and Newtownabbey RUC stations when he called that day . |
| 8 | For exemption to apply , the gift must have been made at least seven years before the donor 's death and moreover , it must have been unconditionally given ; or to use the jargon , ‘ without reservation ’ . |
| 9 | Mair said : ‘ If the answer to that question were known , no doubt the appointment would have been made by now . |
| 10 | The other group consists of countries for whom the deterioration of the US payments balance and the inflow of speculative funds generated a faster rate of monetary expansion , and lower interest rates , than would have been adopted on purely domestic criteria . |
| 11 | not generally towards the end of the sale period because you would be looking at er the brochure or the costs been put together eight months before the first flat was sold , erm a new brochure following a new estimate probably would have been prepared after about twenty months , that is to say er that would have been prepared before the last people entered the er flats |
| 12 | 160 to the end of the second century , and it meant that these defences could not possibly have been erected before AD 160 . |
| 13 | Modelling leads to the startling conclusion that melts may have been stored for as long as 300,000–500,000 years before eruption . |
| 14 | I suspect he would have been rewarded by now had a private conversation of his on a car telephone not been picked up and leaked a couple of years ago . |
| 15 | Unfortunately this means that they occupy fairly similar orbits and could not have been formed in widely separated parts of the PFM . |
| 16 | It should have been done at once ; now the moment of surprise is lost . ’ |
| 17 | The deal would have been done by now but for Venables 's reservations about playing two penalty-area sniffers together without an orthodox No. 9 to provide an aerial target . |
| 18 | The exercise must be done and should have been done by now . |
| 19 | If he had not been called away it would have been done by now . |
| 20 | ‘ I suppose he could have been done in somewhere else and then carted up there . ’ |
| 21 | He added : ‘ The operators should have been given at least another 12 months , rather than having to face a judge and jury overnight decision by someone on the Intervention Board . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ The operators should have been given at least another 12 months , rather than having to face a judge and jury overnight decision by someone on the Intervention Board . ’ |
| 23 | They would certainly have been missed by now . |
| 24 | But the project could have been lost to overseas had it not been for grant aid from the Welsh Office . |
| 25 | Owen would have told the man to run on but without him he would have been lost at once . |
| 26 | The Mercians may always have been ruled by more than one king , possibly several , before the mid-seventh century , and Bede certainly thought of Penda as king at the time of his attack on the eastern Angles in the late 630s ( HE 111 , 18 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ He 'd have been gone by now , sir , but the little devil 's been playing us up . |
| 28 | Should have been gone by now whe great thanks ever so much there you go . |
| 29 | Until 1958 , when Siegmund Warburg masterminded a hostile bid by an Anglo-Canadian consortium for British Aluminium , it would also have been said in both Britain and America . |
| 30 | The first is that the act of self-poisoning may have been rewarding in so far as any subsequent positive changes could be seen as resulting from the act itself . |