Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] been [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidence from official statistics suggests that the number of households containing two or more elementary families has indeed fallen : from 3 per cent of households in 1961 to 1 per cent in 1981 ( Social Trends , 1987 , p. 41 , table 2.1 ) Clearly this is , and apparently has been for some time , very much a minority arrangement within the British population as a whole . |
| 2 | The only problem was the London Paddington to Liverpool train did n't run from the expected start station , it started from Reading instead of from Paddington , so if you were expecting somebody on that train , well they may not have , may not have been on that one if they er were actually starting from Paddington , otherwise no problems on the buses . |
| 3 | The implications of that piece of grandiloquence would not have been at all to his taste , as anyone can see from reading a paragraph or two of any of his books . |
| 4 | This failure with this surprising machine would not have been at all like the failures of ordinary deterministic coin machines . |
| 5 | And question ten , you should have the word Preventable and words to the effect Should not have been in that position and not have assumed that the other driver was going to do what he eventually did do . |
| 6 | If the highly developed woollen textile industry be disregarded , the structure of crafts and trades of Babergh may not have been in any way unrepresentative of the shires at that time . |
| 7 | England 's eighteenth-century manufacturing growth may not have been in any full sense " export led " , but foreign trade did nevertheless have a significant and dynamic role . |
| 8 | Perhaps Mr Smith 's book and the reaction to it imply that accounts should not have been like this : that it should be possible to take them as a straightforward objective statement of performance . |
| 9 | This scheme evokes strong doubts from some area officers and bureaux managers who may not have been among those who carried the vote to accept the plans . |
| 10 | yeah , erm yeah it was different erm with it only being role play it was a bit erm difficult to keep up with it sometimes and actually keep it going like , erm if it was the real life situation outside right you 'd know that the person you were talking to had more had been through that situation before |
| 11 | But yeah , I mean , there was so so many inconsistencies on , on the Irish witness side , you know , like what , what matey said I was , I was running out and all of a sudden I felt a pain from here on those fuck it , he 's up there , got big forearms , and big sort of muscle that size , that 's really wasted this side even after twenty years , it must of about and apparently one matey got shot in the back running away , oh no five out of the thirteen got shot in the back , which again does n't fucking mean any thing , you know that 's , but I said if there 's I R A supporters there and that , you telling me you seen where your comrades have fucking get shot , you 're not , you 're not gon na try and pick up his weapon and stuff I mean like , it was just a perfect opportunity to , to get one over on the British Forces and I , I said I do n't think yet the para 's were entirely blameless , but then again I do n't think they ever have been in any of their fucking |
| 12 | ( If mortality rates for the age group 20–24 could have been calculated , the nadir would probably have been in that age class ) . |
| 13 | The other , John Beaumont , may also have been to some extent Gloucester 's man since he and his putative father Sir Henry Bodrugan went on to become supporters of Richard III in the region . |
| 14 | The other , John Beaumont , may also have been to some extent Gloucester 's man since he and his putative father Sir Henry Bodrugan went on to become supporters of Richard III in the region . |
| 15 | A good response to training was associated with improved squeeze duration in our patients , but increased conidence in mastering anorectal function may also have been of some benefit . |
| 16 | His interest in humanity now was stone dead , and probably had been for some time . |
| 17 | These little shrubs are also known as ‘ hedgehog ’ hollies , and probably have been for all of the 300 years they have been grown in gardens . |
| 18 | It is true that as human beings we may be able to empathize with social work clients who are short of money or bereaved as we probably have been in these situations ourselves . |
| 19 | As many parents have discovered , the problem with disposable nappies up to now has been with that word ‘ disposable ’ . |
| 20 | It could n't really have been like that . |
| 21 | It may well have been at this moment , in the autumn of 1419 , that Henry V decided that the crown of France , which none of his predecessors had achieved , might be his . |
| 22 | And we might , might well have been on that train that had the crash . |
| 23 | Australia may as well have been on another planet to post war Britain . |
| 24 | Jamie and the girl were inches away from me , holding me by an arm each , being bumped into frequently , but my drunkenness had now got to such a state — as the last two quickly consumed pints and an accompanying whisky caught up with my racing bloodstream — that I might as well have been on another planet for all the hope I had of making them understand what I wanted . |
| 25 | It may well have been in that picture that the new type was created . |
| 26 | There are no screen credits at the beginnings of dreams to tell you what sort of film you are going to see , but there might as well have been in these nightmares , because the tenor , horror or guilt is excruciatingly present before the first scenes have even been played . |
| 27 | It may be that demands were made beyond the capability of a particular individual , or the person concerned may simply have been to some degree in ill health . |
| 28 | It was an insignificant point in its way , for Harry knew from Marjorie Mallender that Clare had met Minter whilst at Oxford — he must simply have been at another college — yet somehow his faith in his own reasoning was undermined . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | That 's why I have to keep an eye on it cos that blind and that , but it wo n't come yet , it would n't have been on that , that was priced it . |