Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] been in some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This being must have been in some way necessary to humanity , it is inconceivable that this is not so , for surely there would have been evidence of at least one enduring civilisation that had neither ‘ god ’ nor temple . |
| 2 | The tightly packed schiltrons might have been in some danger if the enemy 's Welsh archers had been used at once ; but Edward or his advisers thought they could settle things swiftly by an all-out cavalry charge . |
| 3 | They were n't twins , but they could have been in some respects , she realised . |
| 4 | An argument for the co-evolution of dispersers and their trees is that they , in contrast , avoid the seeds , though in the past such seeds may have been in some way indigestible , promoting the relationship of today . |
| 5 | Though his thought may have been in some respects dry and narrow as a result , he set the agenda for modern philosophy and theology . |