Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] [art] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The area of Gallia Ulterior conceded to the Alans may well have been that area which had supported Tibatto , and the grant may well have been a means of punishing the rebels and keeping them under surveillance , as well as being a reward for the followers of Goar .
2 Er we said last week that the on the only , the only real way that the peasants were gon na er mobilize was if they , they thought that they could actually win and so surely the violence would have been a means of saying we 're a credible force to be reckoned with
3 FEBRUARY , May and August could be seen as rehearsals for November 's main event so that what may have been a series of happenings in these months could lead to November 's denouement .
4 This could easily have been a series of practices such as our own in areas where no education or communication with the local general practitioners took place .
5 Winter frosts would have annually disrupted the surfaces , as happened to the coach roads of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries before the invention of Mr Macadam ; the end result would have been a series of monumental ruts and pot-holes .
6 In the confusion of 1945 and ‘ 46 , there would have been no means for her to trace him .
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