Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [adj] [prep] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been easy for any of them to say : ‘ I 'm swimming for shore , it 's every man for himself ’ sort of thing , but they did n't . |
| 2 | It can not have been easy for either of them . |
| 3 | Neither of us mentioned it : it would have been intolerable for either of us to accept that he was losing his grip . |
| 4 | not the first or the fourth it must have been one of those in the middle , but I 'm not sure which one it was . |
| 5 | The effect of this may have been beneficial to some of the British potters , especially in Oxfordshire where good quality imitations of provincial samian vessels were produced . |
| 6 | Oswiu 's involvement must have been minimal in all of them . |
| 7 | Loyal Norling praised the refereeing of the games ; but from where I was sitting in most of the games an unfit Norling with his flair and two good touch judges would have been preferable to most of the referees I saw . |
| 8 | I could not understand why Hindley , who hated him , would want his company , and I felt sure it would have been better for all of us if Heathcliff had never come back . |
| 9 | Grandmother used to say that if it had been possible to take their personalities and shake them together a bit it would have been better for both of them . |
| 10 | Again we are faced with having to read between the lines , but the allusions must have been clear to most of Bukharin 's contemporaries . |
| 11 | Because Marx never did write this anthropological work , it is futile to speculate too much on how his position would have been different from that of Engels . |
| 12 | Clearly their views may have been different from those of the people who died , but respondents are likely to have taken into account the reactions of their relatives and friends , and how these respondents felt about the care in the homes is also of interest and concern . |
| 13 | The early Malays may have learnt the ‘ Malay knot ’ made by birds , perhaps by copying the animals , while their medicinal knowledge may have been common with that of other species : monkeys in the Malay Peninsula eat jelly surrounding the germinating seeds of Scaphium spp . |
| 14 | The above-mentioned aerodromes are only two I have selected , but they could have been any of many in both countries . |
| 15 | This tough process , it was realised , did not accord with their own equal-opportunities policy , in that candidates for paid advice workers ' posts were given only an oral interview , even though their job description may have been identical to that of a voluntary advice worker . |
| 16 | The parish boundaries were often indistinct until after the Norman conquest , but there may have been 150 of these by 1066 . |