Example sentences of "have [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am disappointed because I finished fresh and fifth where I would have rather been exhausted and higher in the list . |
| 2 | Had BR had more time and more funding , had the government been more sympathetic towards the railway investment and had there been no recession , the APT might have eventually been successful — but that is another story . |
| 3 | If the retailer had committed an offence under section 1 , could Cadbury have properly been convicted under section 23 ? |
| 4 | The Ridgeway on the Berkshire Downs is edged by the traces of thousands of acres of late prehistoric fields and would have merely been one lane among many passing through a totally cultivated landscape . |
| 5 | Whether or not the USSR will increase oil exports and whether it can do so have long been areas of heated debate . |
| 6 | The way he wears you down , the way he bleeds you white — if his name were Julian Barnes , he would have long been known as the Glacier . |
| 7 | However , what is most interesting is that a deliberate attempt was made to sell it as a concept rather than as what might have hitherto been seen as a package of infrastructural measures . |
| 8 | It would have obviously been complicated to get them in to Darlington so we sent the lecturer to them . |
| 9 | Hypotheses , then , help us to refine theory by bringing more details into consideration in areas of research which may previously have only been explored in a rather sketchy way . |
| 10 | He had only gone out socially with his secretary for after-work drinks and may then have only been less formal than if her were at work . ’ |
| 11 | We 'd have only been off duty together during Dave Mason 's nights on call . |
| 12 | There may have only been just under 500 runners , and it may never rival the London Marathon , but it was good to see this significant part of the running world back on the map again . |
| 13 | Only the original ball can be used , and must have only been touched or handled by the player throwing in . |
| 14 | Could that have only been yesterday — and at about this time ? |
| 15 | In the past members wanting to enforce rights against their union were burdened with the costs of litigation , which may have only been mitigated to some extent by the availability of legal aid . |
| 16 | But Conservative Coun. Peter Jones said the bill would have only been a fraction of that if the controlling Labour group had taken action when defects in the building were detailed in reports in 1985 and 1986 . |
| 17 | The shop , I mean there must have only been about five or six people in the shop . |
| 18 | But whatever satisfaction Scott may have gained from the debate and the fact that he had been given six months to prepare a new design , it must have soon been dispelled by the public press and the action of some of his professional colleagues . |
| 19 | My only complaint is that room could have easily been found for , say , the Pulcinella Suite , which , given the tremendous form of everyone concerned here , is quite a tantalising thought . |
| 20 | All the kids , still not a word , a silence ; as if gripped by a spell ; afterwards , you thought about it , the whirling boy , he could have easily been you . |
| 21 | And they could have easily been one up at that particular time which was a minute . |
| 22 | To give them the right to vote by absorbing them into one of the English constituencies and it could have easily been done . |
| 23 | He says it could have easily been him , but they know the risk when they get ready to start . |
| 24 | A spokesman at Darlington police station said : This was a despicable act and someone could have easily been hurt or even killed . |
| 25 | Could have easily been me . |
| 26 | Above this surface the hydrogen would have been gaseous , and below it the hydrogen would have been liquid : Jupiter would have thus been covered in hydrogen oceans . |
| 27 | I was compelled to ask him in , although it could have scarcely been less convenient . |
| 28 | The cause of death was an overdose of paracetamol but Dr Nurbhai said a post mortem revealed the toxic level of the drug would not have normally been fatal . |
| 29 | Some of the work for a museum catalogue may have already been done before the acquisition of a picture . |
| 30 | However , if the pilot is thinking ahead , that option could have already been considered and he could have had the plan ready for use if more height was lost . |