Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [verb] [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you could see it like , er but it could easily have been filled in with some wood and nobody would know it was there , yeah |
| 2 | In fact , options or at least verbal commitments will have been obtained already for some special buys which are wanted , but nothing will have been the subject of a formal order to any of the media before this . |
| 3 | I expect that the Minister can reassure him that an environmental impact assessment can not have been made properly for that incinerator yet , because an application does not yet appear to have been made . |
| 4 | The basic set-up consists of rather basic apparatus out of a school laboratory — battery , heavy water , metal electrodes and meters for heat or neutrons — which is so widely available that the discovery could have been made anywhere at any time in the preceding half century ; but somehow it has been overlooked by two generations of scientists until suddenly in 1989 not one but two groups in the same location simultaneously announce their breakthroughs . |
| 5 | Such comments about the DTI 's effectiveness as a corporate policeman could have been made almost at any time over the last 30 years and in a multitude of cases . |
| 6 | Just to know that there are rapists around who could have been tracked down with this method is justification for a database . |
| 7 | Just to know that there are rapists around who could have been tracked down with this method is justification for a database . |
| 8 | Little by little you will start to release any unnecessary tension that may have been stored unknowingly for many years . |
| 9 | Wallace looked menacing and was through at one point when Burrows hacked him down ( the scouser should have been sent off for that and a clear ‘ professional foul ’ in the second half against Deane ) . |
| 10 | The large buildings at Zakro , Mallia and Phaistos possess plans that have many features in common , though with significant variations ; their designs may have been based loosely on that of Knossos or they may have evolved independently from a common set of functions . |
| 11 | Therefore , most of the King 's resources must have been bound up in those ships and the various uses he could make of them . |
| 12 | These secondary substances would not ( not at first , anyway ) have had their own lineages of ancestry and descent , but would have been manufactured anew by each generation of primary replicators . |
| 13 | 2.27 There must also be a discount for the uncertainties of life : the fact that the deceased might have been run over by another bus on the following day or that he was involved in a particularly hazardous occupation . |
| 14 | The whole Gdynia venture was only possible because of massive government preference , and there is little doubt that the port could not have been run indefinitely at such favourable rates . |
| 15 | During the long night , the car would have been joined silently by another . |
| 16 | So what we know is that this must have been blocked up before this doorway was inserted , okay ? |
| 17 | Yeah so , there 's a bit more , more could have been written down on that . |
| 18 | N well I was I was erm I would have been called up in another two months after the War was over , if the War had continued I would have been eighteen in in that in the following January . |
| 19 | But Republicans , too , were concerned that the Administration 's now legendary caution in foreign affairs , and its unwillingness to move far from the sentiments of the opinion polls , should have been cast aside in such a cause . |
| 20 | Although Macmillan 's diary entries for 12 and 13 May provide the main direct contemporary source for what was discussed on his visits to Eighth Army , 13 Corps and 5 Corps ( there is no military source reflecting the contents of those discussions ) , it should be stated that Macmillan 's account tallies directly with all the contextual evidence for the range of problems which must have been put forward by each side . |
| 21 | An ordinary person must have been put out by this . |
| 22 | " He could n't have been put in from either bank , because the body was weighted , and it would have sunk in shallow water . |
| 23 | If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago . |
| 24 | Surely at least one would have been caught short at some point during the operation . |
| 25 | Perhaps some courageous reader will insist that the books are ordered , and the tide of semi-literacy will have been held back to that extent through the unsuspected influence of the popular cinema . |
| 26 | Offers of help have been pouring in from all quarters , with the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum , Elizabeth Esteve-Coll putting her conservation department at the ready to assist , and the Secretary of State for National Heritage , Peter Brooke , conceded that his department would be responsible for financing the repair bill . |
| 27 | The idea that an accountant is examining only one set of accounts , of many , is anathema because it carries the implication that unwanted debits and credits might have been secreted away in these other accounts . |
| 28 | The old Grenfell charm must have been working even under all that hair not to mention the scruffy beard . ’ |
| 29 | Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved . |
| 30 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |