Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] been [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidence from official statistics suggests that the number of households containing two or more elementary families has indeed fallen : from 3 per cent of households in 1961 to 1 per cent in 1981 ( Social Trends , 1987 , p. 41 , table 2.1 ) Clearly this is , and apparently has been for some time , very much a minority arrangement within the British population as a whole . |
| 2 | No one knew why , though the Dutch gunner Colonel opined that the reason for the Prince 's hasty departure could not have been of great importance , or else the Duke would surely have left with the Prince . |
| 3 | Firstly , the hypotensive effect of this drug may not have been of sufficient size to reduce microalbuminuria . |
| 4 | Unless the buyer can show that there was a latent defect present in the goods at the time of delivery which later became manifest ( and hence that the goods could not have been of merchantable quality at the time of delivery ) he may be left with no remedy . |
| 5 | When services were concentrated in large hospitals , it was possible for good managers to keep a watchful eye open for the danger signals , and although the physical and emotional environment may not have been of high quality , most residents would be properly fed and clothed and protected from abuse . |
| 6 | It would seem that Miller can not have been on amicable terms with the gardeners there , otherwise he would have made a point of a visit then . |
| 7 | The contents , the observer thought , could not have been worth five dollars . |
| 8 | And question ten , you should have the word Preventable and words to the effect Should not have been in that position and not have assumed that the other driver was going to do what he eventually did do . |
| 9 | If the highly developed woollen textile industry be disregarded , the structure of crafts and trades of Babergh may not have been in any way unrepresentative of the shires at that time . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | ( If mortality rates for the age group 20–24 could have been calculated , the nadir would probably have been in that age class ) . |
| 12 | The other , John Beaumont , may also have been to some extent Gloucester 's man since he and his putative father Sir Henry Bodrugan went on to become supporters of Richard III in the region . |
| 13 | The other , John Beaumont , may also have been to some extent Gloucester 's man since he and his putative father Sir Henry Bodrugan went on to become supporters of Richard III in the region . |
| 14 | A good response to training was associated with improved squeeze duration in our patients , but increased conidence in mastering anorectal function may also have been of some benefit . |
| 15 | He may also have been behind certain elements of the design . |
| 16 | His interest in humanity now was stone dead , and probably had been for some time . |
| 17 | It is true that as human beings we may be able to empathize with social work clients who are short of money or bereaved as we probably have been in these situations ourselves . |
| 18 | As many parents have discovered , the problem with disposable nappies up to now has been with that word ‘ disposable ’ . |
| 19 | As for our own species , the oldest evidence , going back to possibly about 35,000 BC , reveals that the dead were not only equipped with weapons , tools , and ornaments but also with food , which must often have been in short supply among the living . |
| 20 | Certainly the Catholic Church had a vested interest in Aristotelian philosophy , but much of the conflict ostensibly between science and religion turns out to have been between new science and the sanctified science of the previous generation . |
| 21 | After electricity privatization , however , the government is allowing power companies to select which stations should be fitted with FGD ; the majority thus far have been in eastern England . |
| 22 | It may well have been with mixed feelings that Hamilton gave up Painshill and its burdens after some thirty-five years . |
| 23 | It may well have been at this moment , in the autumn of 1419 , that Henry V decided that the crown of France , which none of his predecessors had achieved , might be his . |
| 24 | And we might , might well have been on that train that had the crash . |
| 25 | Australia may as well have been on another planet to post war Britain . |
| 26 | Jamie and the girl were inches away from me , holding me by an arm each , being bumped into frequently , but my drunkenness had now got to such a state — as the last two quickly consumed pints and an accompanying whisky caught up with my racing bloodstream — that I might as well have been on another planet for all the hope I had of making them understand what I wanted . |
| 27 | It may well have been in that picture that the new type was created . |
| 28 | There are no screen credits at the beginnings of dreams to tell you what sort of film you are going to see , but there might as well have been in these nightmares , because the tenor , horror or guilt is excruciatingly present before the first scenes have even been played . |
| 29 | Yet the earliest known usage of ‘ South Saxons ’ does not appear until a royal charter of 689 names them and their king , Northelm , although the term may well have been in common use for some time before that . |
| 30 | It may be that demands were made beyond the capability of a particular individual , or the person concerned may simply have been to some degree in ill health . |