Example sentences of "have been [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , she knew , wholly irrational ; her common-sense kept reminding her that Eddie must already have been closely questioned by the police . |
| 2 | Perhaps a memory from childhood when a fat Cranston must have been mercilessly teased by others . |
| 3 | It would have been mostly done by hand . |
| 4 | new evidence has become available which could not have been reasonably known of or foreseen ; or |
| 5 | This course was rejected partially out of inertia , and partially because it would have been strongly opposed by the English-educated Sri Lankan élite , who held judicial posts and dominated the legal profession , but who were excluded from the executive branch of government . |
| 6 | Understandably outraged by the revelations that colleagues had been implicated , however unwittingly , in the notorious Project Camelot , linked with CIA activities in Cambodia , American Anthropologists have often tended to assume that those working in ‘ colonial situations ’ elsewhere must have been similarly employed as , in effect , government agents . |
| 7 | The heads of the wadis are very abrupt and there is no evidence of water having spilled into them from the plateau surface : on the other hand caves within the wadis may well have been formerly occupied by springs during a period of higher rainfall . |
| 8 | Influences were mutual , and Philip the Fair 's cult of the sainted kingship of Louis IX may have been partly inspired by Henry III 's and Edward I 's promotion of Edward the Confessor . |
| 9 | The inquiry represents a genuine need for information which could have been partly fulfilled by traditional means such as telephone books or local guides but which could be investigated more thoroughly by using Prestel . |
| 10 | Thus the industrial relations outcomes of external pressures on state enterprises will be filtered through existing industrial relations structures ( which may themselves have been partly determined by the same external pressures ) . |
| 11 | I must have been partly stupefied by something they gave me . |
| 12 | If one remembers that the rebels had sympathizers in London , although these may have been partly alienated from them by the disorders , it is all the more remarkable how quickly the city authorities reasserted their control and obtained substantial support . |
| 13 | His devastation of Kent in 676 , in the course of which Rochester was ransacked ( HE IV , 12 ) , may have been partly designed at least to deter the Kentish king from attempting to repossess Surrey . |
| 14 | A possible short term reduction of microalbuminuria due to hydrochlorothiazide 's hypotensive effect may have been progressively counterbalanced by the effective renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system stimulation provoked by the same drug . |
| 15 | The rumours must have reached Richard 's ears — indeed they may have been primarily intended for him . |
| 16 | The creation of an Anglian archdiocese could have been primarily intended as an expression of a new southern Anglian political community . |
| 17 | Galadriel 's warning about the events in her mirror , ‘ Some never come to be , unless those that behold the visions turn aside from their path to prevent them ’ , would have been well said to him . |
| 18 | And marriage , I should have thought , is a false step you must have been well warned against . |
| 19 | She felt sure that plans must have been well advanced for the action they intended to take , and she thought that councillors should have been asked to approve the use of emergency guidelines at that time . |
| 20 | The President informed Stalin in casual manner ; , Stalin , who must have been well informed through his network of spies , showed no emotion . |
| 21 | The former was one of the women most admired by Gregory , and as a sometime wife of Chlothar she may have been well informed about his children . |
| 22 | Susan 's activities must have been well known to the police . ’ |
| 23 | All of that would have been well known to the Ephesians , who had been converted from false gods who had no glory , to be followers of the one true God whose glory had been demonstrated in the splendour , the brightness and the beauty of the Saviour . |
| 24 | The sauropods have relatively long , pillar-like legs , resembling those of the elephant , the largest living land animal , and may have been well adapted for supporting the huge bulk of the animal . |
| 25 | He would have been well acquainted with the Northumberland gardens at Sion House by the Thames ( originally laid out by the Duke of Somerset in the sixteenth century ) and supported an application by William Forsyth , one of his most promising pupils at Chelsea , for the appointment as head gardener there . |
| 26 | As a member and officer of the council of the Carvetii , he would have been well acquainted with Carlisle . |
| 27 | It may have been clearly stated at the previous meeting that the date of the next meeting would be so-and-so , but this will not prevent people from forgetting all about it . |
| 28 | In conclusion , our findings suggest that H pylori infection may have been predominantly acquired at a young age in the past . |
| 29 | The explosive charge would have been either flat , circular or cylindrical and in any of those cases the disruptive explosive power would have been uniformly distributed in all directions . |
| 30 | Soviet communism would necessarily have been temporarily rejected in order to defend Republican France and ultimately to defeat fascism . |