Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But various other bits of machinery which are now lying idle around the quarry probably would 've been better left in Italy or Spain or wherever they were acquired from . |
| 2 | It was , she knew , wholly irrational ; her common-sense kept reminding her that Eddie must already have been closely questioned by the police . |
| 3 | While they must have been closely linked , it would help if we could distinguish between the circulation of such goods and their deposition in graves , for it is the latter which is actually being studied . |
| 4 | The baton of innovation , in this view , may not have been altogether dropped , but sometimes has to be carried by another team before the British outfit can continue its own rather erratic course down the tracks of literary history . |
| 5 | A possible explanation is that this jacket may well have been the last issue made to C/Sgt Nicholl in the last year or so of his service , and , as will be seen , may have been scarcely worn . |
| 6 | No , no , she 'll she 'll erm she 'll query it , but just as well she noticed otherwise she 'd have been merrily paying it and Norm Norma does n't |
| 7 | At least a third of it could have been cheerfuly excised : the highlights from Tommy , for instance , merely served to show how few there were ; and there was a serious lapse of taste in resurrecting their ‘ Laughing Gnome ’ , ‘ Boris the Spider ’ ( presumably performed to give nice John Entwistle his turn in the spotlight ) . |
| 8 | If she had been an ordinary teacher , trying to teach an ordinary sedentary subject like history or Latin , she would have been mercilessly flouted and mocked , but as it was she managed to get by . |
| 9 | Perhaps a memory from childhood when a fat Cranston must have been mercilessly teased by others . |
| 10 | Given that the decision has now been taken by Parliament to extend the law to cover recordings , broadcasts and cable programmes , it may be wondered whether the exemption for these should have been automatically carried over into the new law . |
| 11 | It seemed it would have been ill advised to follow the PARIS II route — costs would have been astronomical and timescales unrealistic . |
| 12 | It would have been mostly done by hand . |
| 13 | Some formal , institutionalized ways of identifying need have been already indicated . |
| 14 | new evidence has become available which could not have been reasonably known of or foreseen ; or |
| 15 | In view of the widespread discussion ( and agreement ) about IT skill shortages during 1984 , it might have been reasonably expected that very high proportions of Advanced Course students would have jobs to go to at the end of their courses . |
| 16 | Traffic of this kind had occurred on a large scale in the period following on the October Revolution , but if there had been any ‘ bagmen ’ left by 1921–2 in the Middle Volga region , they would have been ruthlessly stamped out . |
| 17 | This course was rejected partially out of inertia , and partially because it would have been strongly opposed by the English-educated Sri Lankan élite , who held judicial posts and dominated the legal profession , but who were excluded from the executive branch of government . |
| 18 | Since a sentence was the basis for execution , and the sentence was pronounced inter partes , execution too must have been similarly limited . |
| 19 | Understandably outraged by the revelations that colleagues had been implicated , however unwittingly , in the notorious Project Camelot , linked with CIA activities in Cambodia , American Anthropologists have often tended to assume that those working in ‘ colonial situations ’ elsewhere must have been similarly employed as , in effect , government agents . |
| 20 | Modern scholars , conscious of the large issues involved in this struggle , have generally found this intrusion of the local and material interests of the church of Canterbury at a critical moment incomprehensible , and having their eyes fixed on the historically more important matters of investiture and homage , they have supposed that Anselm 's eyes must also have been similarly directed . |
| 21 | Such operations , although unquestionably dégorgement à la volée , would have been privately practised prior to any commercial application . |
| 22 | The heads of the wadis are very abrupt and there is no evidence of water having spilled into them from the plateau surface : on the other hand caves within the wadis may well have been formerly occupied by springs during a period of higher rainfall . |
| 23 | When she should have been indignantly pulling away somehow she was melting into his arms , her lips parting beneath the increasing ardour of his . |
| 24 | If there had been sufficient other evidence of participation he might have been properly convicted . |
| 25 | The Geiger counter may not have been properly calibrated . |
| 26 | Influences were mutual , and Philip the Fair 's cult of the sainted kingship of Louis IX may have been partly inspired by Henry III 's and Edward I 's promotion of Edward the Confessor . |
| 27 | The inquiry represents a genuine need for information which could have been partly fulfilled by traditional means such as telephone books or local guides but which could be investigated more thoroughly by using Prestel . |
| 28 | Thus the industrial relations outcomes of external pressures on state enterprises will be filtered through existing industrial relations structures ( which may themselves have been partly determined by the same external pressures ) . |
| 29 | I must have been partly stupefied by something they gave me . |
| 30 | Georgiana Greenwood may have been partly to blame , but it had to do with the fact that we really were n't running the conference out of the college . |