Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it seems unlikely that the mare basins could each have been filled in one outpouring . |
| 2 | Mr. Chairman , did I hear correctly that , that the hundred and thirty million would have been funded over ten years . |
| 3 | This is the " never knowingly undersold " strategy , by which the incumbent promises to reduce the price ex post should the consumer find that the good could have been obtained elsewhere more cheaply . |
| 4 | The memory task may have been made inappropriately difficult by preventing subjects from using strategies such as mentally retracing the route and scoring as correct memories only aspects of the situation which could not have been provided from previous knowledge . |
| 5 | Pregnancies of single mothers may have been made less unfavourable by housing legislation ( Ineichen 1972 ) . |
| 6 | When exactly this act of depaganisation took place is impossible to say , but the crosses would have been made much easier to carve before the removal of the stones , which show no sign of damage and were , therefore , meant for re-use . |
| 7 | It should have been made quite clear to you from the beginning that MI5 's word on this would be final . ’ |
| 8 | Theda decided , so relieved that she barely took in the poor quality of his attire , thinking only that the delay must have been made more acceptable to him by a lengthy sojourn in the tap-room . |
| 9 | Those of us who have had reason to spend even a short time in a hospital will appreciate how much they look forward to the day that they can return home , even though their period spent in the hospital may have been made as pleasant as possible by exemplary care . |
| 10 | It was n't my blood , so he must have been bleeding as well |
| 11 | His date of birth is not known , but the first reference to him at work is 1567–8 , and he may therefore have been born around 1540 . |
| 12 | The amplifier will then have been adjusted so that zero field corresponds to zero output , the first step in achieving calibration . |
| 13 | It is hard to imagine how the matter could have been handled less adeptly . |
| 14 | If they should have been given even more ‘ porridge ’ , then their belief that their own status made them beyond the rule of law was insufficiently punished . |
| 15 | On the second day Smith was palpably out lbw but went on the score 42 ; Mujtaba was given out when the ball seemed to hit his boot ; and Gooch , I believe , should have been given out three times in the second innings . |
| 16 | Seldom can a chancellor have been given so much advice , some of it sought , some of it gratuitous — and , as is the way with this subject , much of it conflicting . |
| 17 | Seldom can a chancellor have been given so much advice , some of it sought , some of it gratuitous — and , as is the way with this subject , much of it conflicting . |
| 18 | Yet , the Labour MP Jeff Rooker claims , there have been examples of Royal Warwickshire prisoners of war seeking desperately needed help who have been given as little as £25 , while many more have been means-tested and found ‘ unqualified ’ for even basic financial assistance . |
| 19 | People will have been queueing up this morning to buy these stamps . |
| 20 | Nobody with such a disease could have been training so hard and felt so well . |
| 21 | The situation for the UK would have been rendered more acceptable if high gross contributions had been offset by high gross receipts . |
| 22 | Tax sensitive decisions will have been explained thus improving client liaison . |
| 23 | The hammered coin finds do not indicate the same form of activity that would have occurred at the time the weights would have been lost so two different forms of activity must have taken place . |
| 24 | I was turning to people I did n't know that well and confiding in them , and I could have been led down any garden path . |
| 25 | When William the Conqueror came to ‘ reform ’ the local church , that transformation may have been based as much on political as doctrinal and ritual considerations . |
| 26 | But the awareness of what might have been had not some stalwart Cornishman come along the beach in the nick of time and the thought of the possible after-effects on both Celia and Liza haunted him . |
| 27 | A large proportion had substantial additionality , although some projects could have been supported by other than public-sector funds , bearing in mind that UDG is supposed to be a last-resort lender . |
| 28 | You realize they 'd have been kicking out second helpings . |
| 29 | It would have been expecting too much to imagine that the once-mighty ‘ Hitler myth ’ might disappear overnight in 1945 , disintegrating along with the mortal remains of the Führer himself and being scattered with the ashes of the Third Reich . |
| 30 | If he 'd been in deep water he would n't have been damaged so much and neither would he have surfaced yet , perhaps not for several more days . |