Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’ |
| 2 | However , it seems unlikely that the mare basins could each have been filled in one outpouring . |
| 3 | you could see it like , er but it could easily have been filled in with some wood and nobody would know it was there , yeah |
| 4 | It was just as well Kenneth 's phone was n't engaged because , presumably , if he 'd been chatting to John Major about the situation in the Middle East , or talking to David Mellor about fun , poor old Johan would have been chucked out of the country . |
| 5 | Darryl , also 32 , who lost the toes on his left foot , said : ‘ I shudder to think what else might have been cut off . ’ |
| 6 | Rennenkampf now had no option but to order First Army to retreat eastward and , but for two factors , his entire force might yet have been cut off . |
| 7 | It could have been cut back hugely , and told to concentrate just on defending troops in the field . |
| 8 | If this was coppicing , it had been somewhat fierce and the trees would have been cut back to soil level . |
| 9 | Many believe that Mr Kinnock 's heart may have been cut out and stamped on but that it beats anew in Mr Brown , and for this reason alone the party leader is credited with wanting the 41-year old Scot to succeed him in the event of disaster . |
| 10 | He might have been cut out of cardboard , she thought , as she led him across the hall and into the dining -room , where she introduced him to Susan . |
| 11 | There was a deep , thick blood from the old oaks , still trickling slowly out here and there , as if the Trees might not have been cut down so very long since , or — and this was much worse — as if there were still vestiges of life in them . |
| 12 | Pigs may have spent some time with the swineherd in the distant woodland , but part of the wood would have been cropped for fuel , poles , wood for repairs to buildings , fences , implements and so on , while a few trees may have been cut down for constructional work on the bridge over the Yeo or to build a new house . |
| 13 | Well there would be , yes , I would imagine or if they certainly would , they would of been in the past , they may have been cut down , but that would indicate to me that there were probably trees |
| 14 | That , that could have been , that could have been cut down . |
| 15 | I 'll give you one story that you may not think could have been cut down , but , the headline read , ‘ War Declared ’ . |
| 16 | I certainly would n't have been invited back to the Parsons ' , but I could have lived with that . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought it might have been cleared up by now … |
| 18 | The hon. Member for Dagenham must have been speaking out of turn at that time ; he has certainly been nobbled since . |
| 19 | I think I must have been stumbling round . |
| 20 | In treating such a philosophical topic , the underlying principles should have been expanded on , rather than just being described . |
| 21 | They 're the ones that could have been made up from a kit , I always think , each part clearly demarcated ( bill , box-like head , neck ) — a rather angular goose . |
| 22 | A typical data processing ( DP ) department of the 1960's would have been made up of the following components : |
| 23 | Had the company decided to provide tax on the revaluation surplus , the provision would have been made out of the revaluation surplus , ie the tax would have followed the surplus ( SSAP 15 , para 39 ) . |
| 24 | PAUL MERSON may have been bombed out of the Arsenal team by George Graham for being overweight . |
| 25 | Even at this early stage of contact between white and black in Britain , it is clear that she would have been building on already existing racial caricature and prejudice rather than creating an artificial tide of hostility against black people . |
| 26 | Even though the reason for permitting the employees to continue work pending the appeals may have been born out of a sense of leniency , the proper course of action would have been to suspend the employees pending the hearing of the appeals . |
| 27 | Some patients with chronic liver disease may have been followed up as outpatients and may not have been admitted to hospital during the study period and , thus , these too would not have been identified . |
| 28 | Chris had to hold on to the grab handle of the jeep or she would have been flung out . |
| 29 | It is only too easy to forget that there was a time when the fragile flower of Glasgow culture might just as easily have been swept up by the great philistine scaffy man of indifference . |
| 30 | ‘ Folk must have been swept out to sea . |