Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The survivors can scarcely have been in a strong position to demand territory from the Romans . |
| 32 | That environmentalism may be superseded in schools , as it appears largely to have been in universities , by the locational analysis school is no guarantee of a more appropriate form of explanation . |
| 33 | As their mother seemed already to have been in hospital for most of their lives , Alexander and Victoria saw no change and since the family followed the form of their class and delegated the day-to-day care of their children entirely to the nanny , the absence of their mother hardly affected their lives . |
| 34 | I would have been quite happy just to have been on the bench for the entire championship but , as it turned out , I had another big incentive in that as Gary might not play for the rest of the Five Nations there would be four internationals available if I proved good enough ’ . |
| 35 | The erm , entrance price increases generally have been in line or slightly above inflation . |
| 36 | JOHN Curant 's visits to the racecourse lately have been as a ladies clothing salesman operating from a mobile stand . |
| 37 | Race horse trainer … easy life … you 've got to be joking … steeplechasing is all of life always has been to David Nicholson … he was born and bred … turned out and trained on the gallops at Prestbury … |
| 38 | The most that the British knew about armies was that intermittently over four or five centuries they got together in a sort of militia or Home Guard in case the enemy arrived , and the necessity of a state to run the affairs of the country for the country 's salvation , was never so present to the British mind as it always has been to the minds of most continental people . |
| 39 | and always has been by Ron . |
| 40 | ‘ He always has been in the past , so the Abwehr have found . |
| 41 | He told delegates he believed the case for strong trade unions was as compelling now as it was when the TUC first met 125 years ago , ‘ or ever has been in the history of our country . ’ |
| 42 | yeah , erm yeah it was different erm with it only being role play it was a bit erm difficult to keep up with it sometimes and actually keep it going like , erm if it was the real life situation outside right you 'd know that the person you were talking to had more had been through that situation before |
| 43 | Could he ever have been in love with her ? |
| 44 | Not that he could ever have been in her bed , at least not at Leamings . |
| 45 | ‘ I should have realized at once — that Frenchman who was killed , the same poison must still have been on the skin of his attackers , and it would almost certainly still have been strong enough to affect him as well ! |
| 46 | He tried to visualize its brown wooden bottom — he could not — there must still have been at least one sheet there . |
| 47 | If I had been of the view , which I am not , that it was open to the rule making authority , whether by accident or design , in any way to remove powers which the Act has given to the court , I should still have been of opinion that the judge had the powers which he clearly wished to have . |
| 48 | On the particular afternoon to which I am referring , his lordship would still have been in his mid-fifties ; but as I recall , his hair had greyed entirely and his tall slender figure already bore signs of the stoop that was to become so pronounced in his last years . |
| 49 | He had been moving slowly , and the street was dark … but he should still have been in view … should n't he ? |
| 50 | Would he still have been in collusion with his master ? |
| 51 | If I had been a marquis , I felt , I would still have been in bed or perhaps just parting the curtains and peering out to see what kind of day it was But Lord Hulton worked all the time , just about as hard as any of his men . |
| 52 | ‘ Gray would still have been in a job if we had won at Torquay , ’ said Corden , ‘ but it was a diabolical performance and we felt something had to be done . ’ |
| 53 | ‘ Gray would still have been in a job if Darlington had won at Torquay . ’ |
| 54 | It was ‘ abundantly clear that the byelaw maker , if he had appreciated the limitation on his powers , would both at Greenham Common and at Fylingdales nevertheless have gone on to make the bylaws in such a way that the proviso to section 14(1) was given effect but all the world save commoners would still have been within their ambit ’ . |
| 55 | Under normal circumstances , such as those which have pertained there for at least 685 years , it would hardly have been worth investigating . |
| 56 | It can hardly have been on account of the unanimous beliefs of the many Home Secretaries who passed through the department during the period — though it has to be said that only one , Roy Jenkins , showed any real interest in the issue and he did what he could to achieve action . |
| 57 | In one family the daughters " attended dances " regularly , but these can hardly have been like the dance-halls of the inter-war period . |
| 58 | Jesus would hardly have been in a position to carry out this miracle of healing . |
| 59 | Marie could not remember ever having been inside a hospital before . |
| 60 | And of course there was no question of her having escaped from a mental hospital or of ever having been in one . |