Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | if it 's doing so well , oh and you would n't have been on that long under a Labour Government , of course , it would 've been jobs for the boys , they 'd 've slipped you in I 'm sure . |
| 2 | So I walked beneath the trees and found just under my feet pieces of old concrete and what might once have been bits of wall . |
| 3 | Finally , the ‘ deme judges ’ ( again an originally Pisistratid invention ) dispensed a justice which was uniform for all Attica , but they travelled round the demes on a kind of assize circuit ; they too must have been agents of unification . |
| 4 | She stopped at the graveyard to visit the dead ; but as , even alive , they would all have been strangers to her she felt intrusive . |
| 5 | Jackals and martens could hardly have lifted the latch and , even if they had found their way in , there would have been signs of a scuffle : dead chickens , scattered feathers . |
| 6 | Surely there would have been signs of porpoise tanks or something of that kind on board , and there was only the diving equipment and the submersible research vehicle . |
| 7 | A team creates a supportive atmosphere where people are happy to go at risk , say what they really think , develop one another 's ideas and commit to an agreed course of action even though there may have been differences of opinion . |
| 8 | Ultimately , there might have been differences between them in what enlargement meant , but the point is that higher education stood for an overriding and widening development of the mind . |
| 9 | The only influence on their choice could have been differences in the credit terms . |
| 10 | So , in their capacity as workers in those factories they were not Co-operators at all , though they may very well have been members of consumers , co-operative societies owning an interest in those factories . |
| 11 | Both Edmunds may also have been members of the Spectaclemakers ' Company . |
| 12 | Members of the Soviet government ( the Council of Ministers ) were essentially administrative heads of ministries , but at the same time they were party members , and a few of them may even have been members of the Politburo . |
| 13 | They could have been members of the House of Atreus . |
| 14 | Or they may have been hunters after larger prey , in which case when appendages are eventually discovered they may prove to have adaptations for grasping and manipulating larger food . |
| 15 | These would have been collaterals in whom Ivy might have delighted . |
| 16 | Both Offa 's dislike of the men of Kent and the extent of the territory now coming under his control may have been factors in the situation in the late 780s , but in 798 Coenwulf and Leo were deploying these arguments selectively and in a way which compromises their validity as single explanations of what was probably a complex situation . |
| 17 | Er and we thought that there should have been initials against every item that was ticked . |
| 18 | ‘ It should have been Bells with the number of ringers who 've been playing ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Eighty years ago her subjects would have been knights in armour , ladies in wimples and distress … now , in 1939 , they were bodiless heads , green horses and violet grass , seaweed , shells and fungi ’ , all executed in the style of Dali . |
| 20 | The high interest rates might well have depressed investment if other things had remained equal , but there may have been changes in other factors that helped to maintain investment : in other words , the I curve shifted to the right . |
| 21 | On the other hand , there is evidence in the fifteenth century of town building of both domestic and commercial property , which was clearly a speculative attempt to secure a profit , so there must have been advantages to be gained from this . |
| 22 | There may have been reasons for this lack of positive discrimination towards the older conurbations . |
| 23 | The point was long in doubt , and there may have been reasons for thinking that it might not be appropriate to extend the obligation to measures adopted before a directive existed . |
| 24 | Accordingly it would catch persons who may not have been customers of the plaintiff at the time when the defendant left his employment but who had become customers subsequently . |
| 25 | Although some of these may have been cases of a genuine change of religious commitment , in many I was given the strong impression that these were people who had come to the church regularly at the time when they were building their political careers but who had subsequently fallen away and now professed no strong denominational attachment . |
| 26 | The political speakers , who would have been YCs in their day , knew that they should be brief . |
| 27 | If Hand could not do so for 65 theses , then tracing 550 authors of Scottish geology theses would have been even more daunting , and there would have been difficulties in selecting a statistically valid sub-set for a questionnaire . |
| 28 | There may have been problems of mastery , of control , of appropriate letting go ; or an early refusal to let go as resistance to an over-persistent potty-training parent . |
| 29 | And yesterday as a big hunt was launched for her attackers , police revealed there may have been women in the gang . |
| 30 | In his speech to the Supreme Soviet Gorbachev emphasized that while there might have been misunderstandings between him and Pavlov there were no essential differences between them . |