Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] been in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , it is conceivable that he would not have been in a position to appreciate the differences very clearly . |
| 2 | Since Soissons was part of Belgica Secunda it is argued that Clovis could not have been in a position to claim his father 's authority over that province until Syagrius and his kingdom had been destroyed . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Gray would still have been in a job if Darlington had won at Torquay . ’ |
| 5 | Jesus would hardly have been in a position to carry out this miracle of healing . |
| 6 | ‘ Body Number One , the first buried , turns out to have been in a railway accident — the one at London Bridge , when he was four . |
| 7 | He played that aspect of himself which could well have been in a war — after all he had trained long enough for it — and the result was the sort of performance he was to deliver several times in his film career and none the worse for that : professional , convincing . |
| 8 | For my part I think that there is abundant evidence which would have justified this court in substituting findings that Miss T. was not in a physical or mental condition which enabled her to reach a decision binding on the medical authorities and that even if , contrary to that view , she would otherwise have been in a position to reach such a decision , the influence of her mother was such as to vitiate the decision which she expressed . |
| 9 | ‘ We rarely have been in a position where he has had the confidence to go for it , ’ said Gray . |
| 10 | He looked so innocent that Mrs Maylie said , ‘ This child could never have been in a gang of robbers ! ’ |
| 11 | Otherwise , ’ she added , looking across at him , ‘ I would never have been in a boat alone , would I ? |