Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In fact , options or at least verbal commitments will have been obtained already for some special buys which are wanted , but nothing will have been the subject of a formal order to any of the media before this . |
| 4 | I expect that the Minister can reassure him that an environmental impact assessment can not have been made properly for that incinerator yet , because an application does not yet appear to have been made . |
| 5 | The basic set-up consists of rather basic apparatus out of a school laboratory — battery , heavy water , metal electrodes and meters for heat or neutrons — which is so widely available that the discovery could have been made anywhere at any time in the preceding half century ; but somehow it has been overlooked by two generations of scientists until suddenly in 1989 not one but two groups in the same location simultaneously announce their breakthroughs . |
| 6 | Although most nomadic tribes have a long history of weaving rugs specifically for trade , a number of items coming onto the western market may well have been made originally for personal use . |
| 7 | Such comments about the DTI 's effectiveness as a corporate policeman could have been made almost at any time over the last 30 years and in a multitude of cases . |
| 8 | Betty MacDougall , local historian and folklorist , was able to work out what families would have been living there in 1876 . |
| 9 | Just to know that there are rapists around who could have been tracked down with this method is justification for a database . |
| 10 | Just to know that there are rapists around who could have been tracked down with this method is justification for a database . |
| 11 | The following comments pertain only to enquiries which involve scientific , horticultural , photographic or library staff — even though the enquiry may have been handled initially by Public Services . |
| 12 | Little by little you will start to release any unnecessary tension that may have been stored unknowingly for many years . |
| 13 | He would have been compared favourably with reactionary governments in the West who had barely begun slum clearance . |
| 14 | Wallace looked menacing and was through at one point when Burrows hacked him down ( the scouser should have been sent off for that and a clear ‘ professional foul ’ in the second half against Deane ) . |
| 15 | Next month she will have been locked up for 4 years without being charged or tried , while an examining magistrate struggles to assemble enough evidence to convict her of murdering first her husband and then her boyfriend . |
| 16 | Therefore either the customers must continually be changing identity ( so it is sensible for them to engage in some search ) and some expectation must have been built up about potential high benefits to search , or else search costs must be truly trivial , in order for the potential incumbent to stand a chance of usurping the established firm . |
| 17 | The consensus was overwhelming , but Shaughnessy could call none of his informants to the witness stand , even if they had been willing to testify , because almost everything they had told him — no matter how detailed and how well corroborated by information from other independent sources — would have been ruled out as inadmissible hearsay . |
| 18 | When in 1859 Charles Darwin published The Origins of Species , he had no intention of implying that random mutation of genes and natural selection could account for the emergence of life on earth ; but it was inevitable that some of his followers would try to project his hypothesis backwards , and speculate that life might somehow have been generated spontaneously in gaseous , primeval slime . |
| 19 | When I consider the mover and seconder of the Loyal Address today , I can not escape the feeling that , while the right hon. Member for Worcester was in successive Tory Governments because of his cleverness , the hon. Member for Thanet , South may have been kept out of successive Tory Governments for exactly the same reason . |
| 20 | The large buildings at Zakro , Mallia and Phaistos possess plans that have many features in common , though with significant variations ; their designs may have been based loosely on that of Knossos or they may have evolved independently from a common set of functions . |
| 21 | But the Fed 's timing may not have been based entirely on domestic considerations . |
| 22 | But neither Johnson nor former Gosforth and West Hartlepool lock Kevin Westgarth could have been singled out as outstanding performers . |
| 23 | If pain and other symptoms were being so badly managed these patients should have been referred promptly to other health care professionals who might have been able to provide a better quality of analgesia . |
| 24 | Therefore , most of the King 's resources must have been bound up in those ships and the various uses he could make of them . |
| 25 | These secondary substances would not ( not at first , anyway ) have had their own lineages of ancestry and descent , but would have been manufactured anew by each generation of primary replicators . |
| 26 | In my day — why , Sècheron would have been swallowed up by inner suburbs clustering round the old U.N . |
| 27 | At first the new mountains must have been worn down with great rapidity to produce the vast quantities of Neogene conglomerates . |
| 28 | 2.27 There must also be a discount for the uncertainties of life : the fact that the deceased might have been run over by another bus on the following day or that he was involved in a particularly hazardous occupation . |
| 29 | The whole Gdynia venture was only possible because of massive government preference , and there is little doubt that the port could not have been run indefinitely at such favourable rates . |
| 30 | Prime Minister Petre Roman insisted on April 13 during an official visit to France that the King 's intention to attend a demonstration in the Transylvanian city of Timisoara , which he claimed " would have been covered by about 80 journalists flown in by chartered plane " , invalidated the claim that his visit would have been only a " private " one . |