Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In each case there were criticisms that each could have been prevented by better safety measures and checking . |
| 2 | An obvious corollary is that coins with a long circulation life will have been lost in greater proportions than coins with shorter circulation lifetimes . |
| 3 | Balance could only have been achieved by further devaluation of European currencies against the dollar . |
| 4 | The few hundred Australians on Timor had also contributed to the Japanese conviction that the island was to be re-occupied by the Allies , and the enemy reinforced his garrison with men of the 48 Division in the autumn of 1942 when these forces might have been employed to better effect against the Allies on New Guinea and elsewhere . |
| 5 | Survival of these roots may have been enhanced by greater lignification and/or suberization of cortical or epidermal cells , or perhaps they were located in resource-rich microsites . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , Mr Wilson 's anonymous advisory committee was forced to accept many applications from little-known galleries that would have been rejected in earlier years . |
| 7 | There he suggests that the extant megalithic monuments are preferentially located in areas underlain by older rock ( without acknowledging that such monuments over younger rock in the south and east Britain might have been destroyed by later development ) , and close to geological faults which he believes cause a luminous aerial phenomenon , sometimes called a UFO ! |
| 8 | While the Maryland charter gave the Calverts the same executive authority as the Bishops of Durham held on the Scottish border , it required them to make sure that the colonists had approved the laws of their colony before they came into effect ; it may have been realized from earlier experience that an assembly was needed , or there may have been some feeling that a Catholic colony would have special problems . |
| 9 | In another mood he might have been goaded to further efforts by her extremely obvious , even insulting , indifference , but now , if anything , he was inclined to give her credit for it . |
| 10 | Firstly , the marks one sees in the ground at any particular level may in fact result from many successive building phases , since the holes will commonly have been dug through earlier material and to varying depths . |
| 11 | It is little wonder , therefore , that during those parts of the year which were spent at Saint Cloud , Compiègne or Fontainebleau the emphasis should have been placed on greater informality . |
| 12 | But Finniston still harbours the belief that the wealth of experience he acquired during his ten years at British Steel could have been put to better service for the nation . |
| 13 | As far as national activities are concerned we have the greatest difficulty in getting a delegate to attend the tri-annual meeting in Birmingham this year and many members thought the money spent could have been put to better use . |
| 14 | It is fair to say that this reconstruction is based on late classical texts , and it is unclear in particular how far Papinian 's view may have been anticipated in earlier law . |
| 15 | This was probably true of Southampton , towards the middle of Henry VIII 's reign , although the city 's decline may have been foreshadowed by earlier events . |
| 16 | A tenant has no right to deduct tax that should have been deducted from earlier payments of rent to a non-resident landlord from later payments of rent to the same landlord . |
| 17 | Assume that goods became loose in rough seas either because of improper lashing or because of heavy seas that could have been avoided with better navigation . |
| 18 | Much of this material may have been copied from older sets of annals , and some conceivably derived from the brief comments sometimes made against individual years in the Tables which told churchmen the date of Easter . |
| 19 | The Duke of Wellington , returning from his triumphs , could not have been greeted with greater celebration than was Van Cliburn after he won the Tchaikovsky piano competition in Moscow in 1954 . |