Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A little bit I think that he was just concerned that perhaps there might 've been other people who might 've wanted to come and if people had rung up and you had had a waiting list something could 've been done about it |
| 2 | We moved to Somerset and I saw nothing of Matt for — I do n't know — it must 've been sixteen years I suppose . |
| 3 | It should 've been first thing in morning if that would happen . |
| 4 | It must 've been fifteen foot at least up in the air teetering on a top branch . |
| 5 | I think , I think the problem with this act in my view is that it would 've been one thing to say to people , right from here on in , we 're going to do it like this . |
| 6 | now there , there must 've been one reason why you chose Friends Provident . |
| 7 | What a shame just Mickey again out on the right hand side , Dean made a great diagonal run in behind the full back and the ball was just a little bit heavy otherwise there could 've been real danger again for Blackburn . |
| 8 | It could 've been any doctor , and it might not 've been a stethoscope . |
| 9 | She didn there would 've been enough change in that and Kath was gon na go straight to the bank and get her some money back , right ? |
| 10 | D' you remember I showed you a manuscript — it must 've been some years ago , now — purporting to be by some mariner who remembered an English cargo boat having gone down between us , here at Møn , and Malmo — during the First Schleswig War ? |
| 11 | With an assumed growing population in early Anglo-Saxon England there would have been increasing pressure on rural resources , especially by the second half of the seventh century . |
| 12 | It is , for instance , improbable that , on a joint assessment of £133. 6s. 8d. , any of the three Thomases of Lavale would have been mere labourers . |
| 13 | Phormio 's alliance was hardly , given the distance of Akarnania from Athens , the considered policy of the Athenian Assembly — the general just made it on the spot — and may have been mere opportunism , for Athens made many alliances which never came to anything and were not expected to . |
| 14 | It ca n't have been mere curiosity . |
| 15 | Monaghan came close to snatching victory but this would have been rough justice on Cavan who showed flair and fluency in the first half before fading . |
| 16 | In the early stages we started off with perhaps Minor schools which could almost have been Major ones , because you were just trying to find any school that had got some kind of life , or interest , or things happening … really in many ways it was rather a matter of chance because of the way it happened at the time . |
| 17 | Clearly , Harald was a highly-efficient organiser of labour and materials : the felling and transportation of the large quantities of timber used in the camps and at Ravning , for example , must have been major operations in themselves . |
| 18 | There should have been major expenditure on affordable provision , this would be a major factor in getting people back to work . ’ |
| 19 | ’ If we were still in our own country , Andreas , a man like you would have been married years ago and you would have many children to delight you in your old age . ’ |
| 20 | ( It may have been simple retaliation — he had been mildly reprimanded by the guardians for allowing an unqualified assistant to attend a midwifery case as his deputy earlier that year , and had been instructed to provide the name of a legally qualified locum . ) |
| 21 | The correct sentence would have been nine months ' detention in a young offender institution , and that sentence would be substituted . |
| 22 | It would have been nine wickets , but Lewis Eckett , editor of Club Horror , was Absent Without Leave . |
| 23 | There could have been greater consultation with both nursery nurse and life preparation students and due consideration given to the fact that completed craft projects are an important part of a nursery nurse 's final assessment . |
| 24 | There should have been real mountains , or no mountains at all . |
| 25 | In his zeal to demonstrate that the Conservatives were committed individualists Fforde refuses to accept that there may have been real disagreements within the party . |
| 26 | These may have been real people , but they were n't real Nazis . |
| 27 | It could have been four years . |
| 28 | And she went on a party of three , no , no , she went with a party of four friends I think , there were five of them altogether and er she stayed for well er , three nights , four days , or four days , three nights I ca n't remember no , it must have been four days , four nights , three days . |
| 29 | He said slowly and dangerously , ‘ I daresay I might have been four bob down at the end of an evening . |
| 30 | Gary Kemp 's portrayal of the homosexual psychopath Ronnie is utterly chilling ; we are not shown what he does in bed , but it can not have been much fun for his boyfriend . |