Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [been] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither do I think it altogether heretical to wonder whether some diseases attributed to evil spirits may not have been forms of mental illness . |
| 2 | It may not have been love at first sight — winged ears and gangly legs have limited appeal — but their relationship was meant to be |
| 3 | But these relationships may not have been partnerships in any of the senses that the word is used today . |
| 4 | There may also have been opportunities for paid work experience . |
| 5 | They are interpreted as filling volcano-tectonic faults but may also have been feeders to Kuroko-style massive sulphide deposits , though these are likely to have been removed by erosion . |
| 6 | There may well have been others on other parts of the island , but unfortunately the heavy curtain of dust and fumes being carried by the wind prevented him getting right round . |
| 7 | Note that although the actions of the mother , father and child might well have been part of one connected incident , the cuts to the first shot of the older child and to the shot of the father getting to his feet open up the possibility that the actions could in fact have been parts of separate but similar incidents which took place over a very much longer span of time ; the shot of the father could well have been contrived specially , with the help of a little direction from the cameraman in between shots . |
| 8 | It was an important fight , and she should n't have been conce with petty pickings like the hymn-singers . |