Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [been] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The women complained that the officer could only have been on the housing list for a few weeks , while they had waited for periods of between eighteen months and four years . |
| 2 | His hand could only have been on her for a matter of seconds , if that , but when he released her she felt as though her skin had been scorched |
| 3 | It would seem that Miller can not have been on amicable terms with the gardeners there , otherwise he would have made a point of a visit then . |
| 4 | But if these light rays were swallowed up by the black hole , then they could not have been on the boundary of the black hole . |
| 5 | Parish council chairman Brian Biddiscombe said Miss Harrison and her friends should not have been on the bridge . |
| 6 | The only problem was the London Paddington to Liverpool train did n't run from the expected start station , it started from Reading instead of from Paddington , so if you were expecting somebody on that train , well they may not have , may not have been on that one if they er were actually starting from Paddington , otherwise no problems on the buses . |
| 7 | One of the most important impacts of The Brow should thus have been on the content and dissemination of subsequent official guidance on residential road layout . |
| 8 | Why , Edward wondered , did Brackenbury speak yesterday of being off-duty on Thursday when he must already have been on the point of resigning his post ? |
| 9 | Even if he added some new music for the revival , all the rest must already have been on paper for the premiere . |
| 10 | The Premier could just as easily have been on the slalom — ducking and diving as MPs taunted him over the Exchange Rate Mechanism fiasco . |
| 11 | ‘ I should have realized at once — that Frenchman who was killed , the same poison must still have been on the skin of his attackers , and it would almost certainly still have been strong enough to affect him as well ! |
| 12 | It can hardly have been on account of the unanimous beliefs of the many Home Secretaries who passed through the department during the period — though it has to be said that only one , Roy Jenkins , showed any real interest in the issue and he did what he could to achieve action . |
| 13 | But of course , Agnes realised , Sims — or whoever he 'd been born — must once have been on the far side of The Wall , too . |
| 14 | Parish council clerk at Gainford Margaret Brown said : ‘ They should n't strictly have been on the bridge but a lot of people do walk on it and climb over the small barricade at each end . |
| 15 | This conservatism was arguably excessive , given the subsequent relatively trouble-free experience of most of the innovations in power station design which might realistically have been on the agenda at this time . |
| 16 | Negotiations between the husband and wife will often have been on the basis that the wife 's solicitors will hand over an application for cancellation of the land charge ( Form K13 or application for the cancellation of the notice if registered land Form 202 ) on completion in return for one-half of the net proceeds of sale ( or whatever other figure is agreed ) . |
| 17 | Australia may as well have been on another planet to post war Britain . |
| 18 | Jamie and the girl were inches away from me , holding me by an arm each , being bumped into frequently , but my drunkenness had now got to such a state — as the last two quickly consumed pints and an accompanying whisky caught up with my racing bloodstream — that I might as well have been on another planet for all the hope I had of making them understand what I wanted . |
| 19 | And we might , might well have been on that train that had the crash . |
| 20 | ‘ It wo n't have been on a weighing machine since it left the village where it was grown . ’ |
| 21 | As a member of the family , you would n't have been on the list . |
| 22 | It would n't have been on the books if I ever seen blatant sectarianism at its worst it 's in that bloody motion . |
| 23 | He would n't have been on this airwell at the time , though . |
| 24 | if it 's doing so well , oh and you would n't have been on that long under a Labour Government , of course , it would 've been jobs for the boys , they 'd 've slipped you in I 'm sure . |
| 25 | He 'd passed his last medical , otherwise he would n't have been on board . |
| 26 | Mr McArdle should n't have been on the train . |
| 27 | That 's why I have to keep an eye on it cos that blind and that , but it wo n't come yet , it would n't have been on that , that was priced it . |
| 28 | For a start he should n't have been on the table . |
| 29 | Except you should n't have been on the pavement . |
| 30 | Besides , Mr Ramaphosa 's claim that the negotiations would otherwise have been on the threshold of a breakthrough is questionable . |