Example sentences of "they [vb infin] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would they have been proud of us ? |
| 2 | Nor can they have been substantial enough to have provided defence against further attacks from the Huns or from the Alamans . |
| 3 | A township seemingly unaffected by Parliamentary influence , with Roman Catholics worshipping openly with , perhaps a despairing vicar trying , perhaps half-heartedly , to depress the old and infiltrate the Anglican requirements possibly to a largely unwilling ( or might they have been uncaring ? ) flock . |
| 4 | Or might they have been Tory voters fooled by Labour 's billboard poster of John Major wearing an SNP rosette ? |
| 5 | The queen mother 's religious views and those of the French advisers she gathered around her did little to allay the reformers ' fears ; nor would they have been happy to know that on Mary 's marriage in 1558 to the Dauphin , who the following year became King Francis II , she secretly signed an agreement that if she should die childless her kingdom of Scotland and her claim to the throne of England should become her husband 's . |
| 6 | Would they have been old fashioned records , the seventy eights ? |