Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Spectacles or low vision aids may have been prescribed in some cases , and teachers should be informed about this .
2 The locations of the recent Kalimantan outbreaks suggest that some may have been rekindled from underground smoulderings dating from at least the mid-80s .
3 In the Curragh Affair of 1914 some British officers appeared to claim to stand for a special national interest above that asserted by civilian politicians and their attitude would have been understood by professional soldiers in other countries .
4 He gave , as a further reason , that had no request been made for a receipt , fingerprints could easily have been obtained in other ways , e.g. , by dusting the counter .
5 Many tools may have been made of organic materials but some , for instance wood-working tools , were of metal .
6 Antigliadin antibody concentrations were measured in 17 patients and the question arises if the diagnosis of coeliac disease could have been made with these results alone .
7 The dots could have been made in other ways , and hardly noticeable anyway .
8 These tortoise holes are often so long — up to forty feet — that judging from the tortoise 's slow rate of excavation they must have been made by several generations and are probably several centuries old .
9 These would probably have been deposited at different times , and the detailed examination of their contents will , in theory , reveal a progression of different parts of a coinage ; if one or more of these parts can be attached to an absolute date , it should be possible to estimate a date for the other parts in the progression or sequence .
10 To constitute an offence under those sections the waste must have been deposited on an unlicensed site or in breach of the conditions in the licence , must amount to an ‘ environmental hazard ’ and must have been deposited in such circumstances or for such a period that whoever deposited it there may reasonably be assumed to have abandoned it there or to have brought it there for the purpose of its being disposed as waste .
11 Large numbers of hoards would have been deposited by Roman legionaries recruited in Italy but prevented ( for instance , by death ) from returning to recover them .
12 The three small inner-city communities that we studied in this way would have been assumed by traditional scholars to be homogeneous in language , and the fine-grained but systematic variation I am referring to here would not have been thought possible .
13 It is also guaranteeing mortgages at 1 per cent below the normal interest rate , for endowment or pension-linked policies , on several of the houses up for sale , an interesting and innovative service for would-be bidders ( mortgage surveys will already have been undertaken for these houses ) .
14 Second , the exodus from the dollar created more expansionary monetary conditions than would otherwise have been adopted by some governments .
15 I was for resolving this phenomenon into ship-wrecks , and supposing that they might have been flung on these coasts out of some unhappy vessels ; but this solution of mine is absolutely denied , from the frequency and regularity of the appearance of these seeds . "
16 I was for resolving this phenomenon into ship-wrecks , and supposing that they might have been flung on these coasts out of some unhappy vessels ; but this solution of mine is absolutely denied , from the frequency and regularity of the appearance of these seeds . "
17 What is even worse , however , is that as the two fonts may have been prepared from different masters there could be subtle variations between them — even though they are notionally the same typeface .
18 Mutually important issues such as Cambodian instability , the security of Taiwan and Hong Kong , and tensions on the Korean peninsula ( which may have prompted the visits ) could have been handled through diplomatic channels without resort to secrecy , Mr Winston Lord , US ambassador to China until this year , pointed out yesterday .
19 Any attack on Beaumaris would have been presented with formidable problems .
20 It 's extremely doubtful that they will have been stored in ideal conditions , and even if they have , the ideal conditions of the timber yard do not correspond to those of your own home — there 's bound to be some shrinkage as they dry out in the higher temperatures .
21 The high incidence of vessels compared with dishes may , as Evison suggests ( ibid. ) , imply that they arrived as containers of oil or wine ; the crude workmanship of some examples may emphasise that the contents were more important than the packaging , even though they may have been viewed as valuable objects in some secondary function .
22 The Frenchman 's exceptional talents might have been rewarded with two goals in the first half here in the Neckarstadion .
23 Were these merely eddies in the mud on the bottom of the primeval seas or could they have been formed by living organisms ?
24 Commenting on the prosecution 's agreement to let Drogoul change his plea to innocent , Shoob stated that decisions had been made " at the top levels of the United States Justice Department , Agriculture Department and within the intelligence community to shape this case , and that information may have been withheld from local prosecutors seeking to investigate the case " .
25 All this would have been done within two hours of receiving the order .
26 Yes but what you saw er in that clip just now , erm would n't have been done by cruel methods , I can assure you of that .
27 Henry Parris , tutor-organiser for Northamptonshire who had previously served in a similar capacity in Yorkshire North District , also acknowledged that most of his organising work could have been done by voluntary members , given the time and opportunity to travel around the county .
28 If he is anything like me , he will have been struck by three things .
29 Wider social policies , which might have been incorporated into regenerative programmes effected by local government , have been muted if not abandoned .
30 Saw pits have been recognised in some woods — a late medieval one was excavated in Wetmoor , part of the former Horwood in Gloucestershire .
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