Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] been [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paige felt sorry for her ; they could so easily have been friends , but for Lori 's jealousy . |
| 2 | It was the paparazzi who trailed her , but it could so easily have been terrorists . |
| 3 | The key feature of associative learning is that , unlike habituation or sensitization , it is a long-lasting effect , and all the mechanisms discussed so far have been transients . |
| 4 | The only politicians to have said much about it so far have been presidents of the individual boroughs . |
| 5 | Mr Winner , most of whose efforts with the camera thus far have been studies of his girlfriend , actress Jenny Seagrove , was paid £200 by the book 's publishers for his Gielgud picture . |
| 6 | The authorities ' heavy-handed intervention showed just how sensitive they were to the question of the empire 's internal diversity , for the Brotherhood 's goals were in fact much less radical than St Petersburg supposed and Shevchenko and Kulish may not even have been members . |
| 7 | Nick Simmons , manager of the AA Roadwatch nerve centre at Stanmore , Middlesex , hastily pointed out yesterday that those who drew the short straw for Christmas duty could just as easily have been men . |
| 8 | And there now is the knowledge that women have a breath of sexual desires , and lives , as well as men , and in that area there certainly has been advances . |
| 9 | He spent £9.14.6. , mostly on plants from Jacob von Haapens and Warner van de Blooms , probably nurserymen , and listed many more plants from Leyden , but these would almost certainly have been gifts . |
| 10 | So , in their capacity as workers in those factories they were not Co-operators at all , though they may very well have been members of consumers , co-operative societies owning an interest in those factories . |