Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] [vb pp] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can see I 've been displaced in Leo 's affections . ’ |
| 2 | I know but you could 've been fetched from Grand Canaries . |
| 3 | Even if it had survived , it is a moot point how long this bias would have been tolerated by West Germany . |
| 4 | Large medical expenses accounts should have been checked by Europ Assistance but these should still be examined as it is not unknown for such accounts to include TVs and even bar charges . |
| 5 | A report by the Local Government Ombudsman says that residents living near the Memorial Ground at Tuffley should have been warned by Gloucester City Council about the possible nuisance the glare might cause them . |
| 6 | The columns which they carry on their backs have more fluting than a respectable column would accept and the Corinthian capitals have swirls and squiggles that would have been prohibited in Corinth . |
| 7 | Geoffrey le Bel would have been flattered by John of Marmoutier 's comparison of his judicial aims with those of ancient Rome . |
| 8 | Black Fury could only have been made at Warner Bros , a studio which had firmly aligned with Roosevelt and the New Deal and which quite clearly believed that there was a market for films which dealt with topical issues and in particular with matters of social justice . |
| 9 | More distinction might have been made between Largo and Grave , perhaps , since both occur in the Concerti da chiesa ( Nos. 1–8 ) . |
| 10 | However , some types , the squat jars , bag beakers , pouch bottles and cone beakers ( Evison 1972 ) are rare on the Continent and may well have been made in England ; the Faversham area is a strong contender for the centre of this production . |
| 11 | Yet the very large concentrations at Faversham ( Harden 1956b , pp. 146–7 ) and the fact that some supposed European types are more common in England than on the Continent , for instance the Kempston type cone beakers ( Evison 1972 ) and bag beakers ( Harden 1978 , p. 2 ) , encourage a view that some at least may have been made in England . |
| 12 | Mr Hurd 's speech this week in Luxembourg , which called for the European Council ( as summits are known ) to have strong links with a reinforced WEU , would not have been made in Mrs Thatcher 's day . |
| 13 | His mother had been married once before in a stunning white dress , which Karl thinks may have been made by Doucet — one of the great early twentieth-century designers . |
| 14 | I buy a cup of tea so thin it could have been made by Rachel 's landlady , and I stare out through a steamed-up café window across the cold empty promenade . |
| 15 | ‘ Today 's statement should have been made by Michael Heseltine , not a law officer . |
| 16 | Alternatively , the change may have been made by Wulfstan himself , in much the same way that in his different records of the Enham meeting he omitted from VI Æthelred death penalties contained in V Æthelred . |
| 17 | ‘ His phone calls to you may not even have been made from Geneva . ’ |
| 18 | Even Caribbeans under the age of twenty may have been born outside Britain , and there is a wide range of degrees of exposure to Caribbean language and culture , so conversations even among age-mates may nevertheless incorporate a mixture of Caribbean-born and British-born participants . |
| 19 | No one has ever spoken of the child who must have been born to Dierdriu , and who had given birth to himself and Grainne . |
| 20 | She may have been born in Newnham , though much of her life seems to have been spent in or near St Stephen 's parish , near Canterbury . |
| 21 | He sounds like the last playboy of the western world , who might have been born in London or New York but fell overboard from a boat between the two . |
| 22 | , Stephen ( d. 1780 ) , architect , may have been born in Oxburgh , Norfolk , to the poor of which village he left £20 in his will , and he appears to have begun his professional life as a clerk or assistant to William Kent [ q.v . ] . |
| 23 | You 'd have been born in Ireland if things , history and all had been different . ’ |
| 24 | Robert III may have been born in Dundonald Castle and it is certain that he spent much of his life there before he became king . |
| 25 | Phil Martin , a labour economist and member of the bipartisan commission , estimates that 90% of the new entrants into the American agricultural market will have been born in Mexico . |
| 26 | Those two had a photo to watch for you coming off the plane — which means you must have been followed to Helsinki Airport . |
| 27 | Your two agents , Calcraft and Warnham , may have been followed to London and killed by one of the Duke 's retainers or by these secret Templars . |
| 28 | Students of form will already have been alerted to Lacotte 's potential following an eyecatching second to Lord President on the July Course last summer . |
| 29 | When the Derry team members take their place in Croke Park on September 19 for the All Ireland GAA final , chances are the song drifting down from the terraces will have been penned by Maghera man James Devlin . |
| 30 | You have been to a tournament and an auto-da-fé already , and if you had not embarrassed my son by fainting at the latter event you would have been presented to King Sebastian himself . " |