Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [vb pp] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Spectacles or low vision aids may have been prescribed in some cases , and teachers should be informed about this .
2 Antigliadin antibody concentrations were measured in 17 patients and the question arises if the diagnosis of coeliac disease could have been made with these results alone .
3 These tortoise holes are often so long — up to forty feet — that judging from the tortoise 's slow rate of excavation they must have been made by several generations and are probably several centuries old .
4 To constitute an offence under those sections the waste must have been deposited on an unlicensed site or in breach of the conditions in the licence , must amount to an ‘ environmental hazard ’ and must have been deposited in such circumstances or for such a period that whoever deposited it there may reasonably be assumed to have abandoned it there or to have brought it there for the purpose of its being disposed as waste .
5 It is also guaranteeing mortgages at 1 per cent below the normal interest rate , for endowment or pension-linked policies , on several of the houses up for sale , an interesting and innovative service for would-be bidders ( mortgage surveys will already have been undertaken for these houses ) .
6 Second , the exodus from the dollar created more expansionary monetary conditions than would otherwise have been adopted by some governments .
7 I was for resolving this phenomenon into ship-wrecks , and supposing that they might have been flung on these coasts out of some unhappy vessels ; but this solution of mine is absolutely denied , from the frequency and regularity of the appearance of these seeds . "
8 I was for resolving this phenomenon into ship-wrecks , and supposing that they might have been flung on these coasts out of some unhappy vessels ; but this solution of mine is absolutely denied , from the frequency and regularity of the appearance of these seeds . "
9 Saw pits have been recognised in some woods — a late medieval one was excavated in Wetmoor , part of the former Horwood in Gloucestershire .
10 Here the queen was , according to local records , accommodated in a turreted tower house known since as Mary Queen of Scots House , though a few researchers have concluded that it could not have been built until many years after her stay in the burgh .
11 When William Burnes died at Lochlea in 1784 , John Tennant lent a horse to help to convey his body to Alloway for burial in the grounds of Kirk Alloway and memories of Alloway and the ruined kirk must have been recalled by both families when they met on that day .
12 However , 1 doubt whether anything more substantial will have been achieved on many units by that date .
13 Leaving aside the farce of the England v South Africa semifinal , where the complete lack of basic common sense applied would probably not have been salvaged by any rules , surely a fairer solution is to use an average of the target under the old and new systems .
14 It is possible that some of the high recorded reflectance values from the East Midlands Platform and Cleveland High areas may have been enhanced by such effects .
15 The same went for the Brontës ( Charlotte 's late marriage being irrelevant ) , so in a perfect world , we should certainly have been deprived of these characters .
16 The variation in size would have been enormous as the existing parish councils would have been joined by such cities as Sheffield as ‘ local councils ’ .
17 A number of Group companies completed reviews of their environmental performance and by the end of 1993 , this will have been extended to all companies .
18 It is a pity that this civilized sort of arrangement could n't have been extended to more cities .
19 I have received no request for a statement , but the hon. Gentleman 's point of order will have been heard by those Ministers with responsibility for such matters .
20 The implicit complaint is that many British insurers would not have been saddled with these claims if US law and regulation had not been retrospectively changed .
21 There were several contemporary examples of similar patriarchal claims by the archbishops of Hamburg , Lyons , and Milan ; Lanfranc may have been inspired by these examples when he vigorously supported the Canterbury claim to patriarchal authority over the whole of the British Isles .
22 The fuel should all have been removed from both reactors by December 1994 and sent to Sellafield by the end of March 1995 .
23 The autofocus should have been over-ridden on these shots .
24 In addition to a claim for capital loss or loss of profits , a claim can be made for any consequential loss which falls within the rules in Hadley v. Baxendale , i.e. loss of a type which at the time of the contract could reasonably have been predicted by both parties as liable ( i.e. not unlikely ) to occur in the event of the breach .
25 Fortunately those of my friends who knew me before were only amused by this foolish description and there was no general resentment of my peerage , which could properly have been attributed to many services that I had given to the government — of both colours .
26 Burton may well have been stained by those prejudices — it would have been hard not to be : and once again it is important to understand the circumstances in which he found himself .
27 Both of the hypertonic ORS contained higher glucose concentrations and higher water obsorption might have been expected from these solutions because of a greater stimulatory effect on active glucose transport .
28 It must have been rebuilt on many occasions , the present building and adjoining mill house dating from around 1726 .
29 A satisfactory dividing line could have been drawn in these terms .
30 Had it succeeded , we would have been enriched by those labours which he afterwards devoted to his native country and which laid the first regular foundation for the science of veterinary medicine in Europe .
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