Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I assumed they would all have been stowed in one corner of the hold and would reappear at the same time . |
| 2 | By 1997 , the probable date of the next general election , Britain will have been governed by one party for 18 years . |
| 3 | The Frenchman 's exceptional talents might have been rewarded with two goals in the first half here in the Neckarstadion . |
| 4 | All this would have been done within two hours of receiving the order . |
| 5 | If he is anything like me , he will have been struck by three things . |
| 6 | In all of these islands , current estimates suggest that all trees suitable for the birds will have been lost within 10 years . |
| 7 | He said the entrance should not have been in the centre , but a little door should have been built at one side . |
| 8 | There is , of course , no reason why Baldwin should have been influenced by one motive to the exclusion of others . |
| 9 | At 500ft/min his DH would have been reached in 3 minutes . |
| 10 | The grey ovoid , some distance away , expanded and contracted in a movement which reminded Ace of nothing so much as chewing , although there was no way that she could see whereby the fruit could have been transmitted from one part of Legion to another . |
| 11 | The improvements to estates should have been completed in five years when the HATs will be wound up and the houses disposed of to new landlords who could be the local council , a private individual or company , a housing association or a co-operative . |
| 12 | Some of these workers may have just entered the labour market from school , some may have been made redundant from their previous jobs , some may have been sacked for one reason or another and many will have quit their previous jobs in order to create time to search for more satisfactory ones . |
| 13 | This means that if , for example , the cooking cycle is programmed for two-and-a-half minutes at a required temperature the machine will adjust to compensate for the fall in temperature which occurs when a frozen or chilled food will have been cooked for two-and-a-half minutes at the correct temperature . |
| 14 | Even so , if the enthusiasts for the citizenship ideal sought comfort from this proliferation of interest against the background of a decline in party commitment , they might have been chastened by one reaction to the report of the Speaker 's Commission . |
| 15 | They could have been sentenced to five years in prison . |
| 16 | By Spring of this year our beloved M twenty five will already have been widened to four lanes from the M three to the M forty and in November the Department of Transport 's plans for the three lane link roads between the section between the M four and M forty were displayed locally in Uxbridge and places like that . |
| 17 | Then she realised why the meeting had dragged on , when the matter under discussion could have been finalised in ten minutes : it was the morning 's work . |
| 18 | Accordingly , it may be the case that by the time this book is in your hands departments may have new names and policy responsibilities may have been moved from one department to another . |
| 19 | In view of the new wording of Condition 2 the claimant must produce , if loss or damage is sustained while in the care of an airline , a Property Irregularity Report , a copy of the formal written notice to the airline which should have been written within three days of loss or damage and all travel tickets and tags . |
| 20 | The Gospel must have been written after 65–70 AD if Mark is one of his sources . |
| 21 | ‘ If he had walked away we would have been left with 11 men to their 10 . ’ |
| 22 | The hostages could not have been held for ten minutes without Syrian permission . |
| 23 | When applying glottochronological analyses it is crucial that only cognate words are compared , and not words which are coincidentally similar , or which may have been borrowed from one language into another : to include these would give a false high rating of similarity . |
| 24 | Divorce of this kind was first introduced into English law by the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 , and from then until 1969 it was based upon the doctrine that some matrimonial offence ( such as adultery or desertion ) must have been committed by one spouse before the other could obtain relief . |
| 25 | If he had made a full brake application , his guard , Gerry Briggs , would have been thrown from one end of the brakevan to the other with a possible resultant injury . |
| 26 | Their secretary , Bernard Halford , said last night : ‘ All the loose ends should have been settled within 48 hours . ’ |
| 27 | Under the complaints procedure action should have been taken within 20 working days . |
| 28 | If politicians came to the conclusion that education was too important to be left to the educators , bear in mind the massive input of public resources , education 's failure to demonstrate significant improvement of standards , poor marketing , uncertain professional leadership and the fact that every year youngsters leave school ignorant of much they might reasonably be expected to know and lacking skills that could have been acquired in 11 years of schooling . |
| 29 | In the 1950s , the decade on which this analysis is focused , timetables could have been translated from one county grammar school to another almost as readily as architects ' plans . |
| 30 | These people could have been addressed by one man who would have been heard comfortably . |