Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Mr. Chairman , did I hear correctly that , that the hundred and thirty million would have been funded over ten years .
2 The amplifier will then have been adjusted so that zero field corresponds to zero output , the first step in achieving calibration .
3 Seldom can a chancellor have been given so much advice , some of it sought , some of it gratuitous — and , as is the way with this subject , much of it conflicting .
4 Seldom can a chancellor have been given so much advice , some of it sought , some of it gratuitous — and , as is the way with this subject , much of it conflicting .
5 Tax sensitive decisions will have been explained thus improving client liaison .
6 They have hypothesised that a ‘ thrifty genotype ’ may have been selected around 10000–11000 years ago in a subgroup of ancestral Indians with a particular reliance on vanishing big game species such as mammoths .
7 Some women find , for instance , they can renew old friendships which did n't fit in with their former lives ; interests that may have been put aside many years ago to accommodate someone else can be taken out of mothballs .
8 The only problem I have with all this hectic activity is that the concept of funk-metal should have been buried under 20 feet of hyper dangerous asbestos padding before it was permitted to draw its first breath .
9 In other words , crazy though it sounds , players could have been picked under one set of laws to play under another .
10 He is not the first Federal Reserve chairman to visit Moscow , but never can one have been paid as much attention .
11 8.8 If any sub-clause of this clause 8 is held to be invalid or unenforceable under any applicable statute or rule of law then it should be deemed to be omitted and if as a result either party becomes liable for loss or damage which would otherwise have been excluded then such liability shall be subject to the remaining sub-clauses of this clause 8 .
12 community charge payment should have been abolished completely this year .
13 The whole must have been rewritten about five times .
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