Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Absent apparently has been any appreciation of the unfortunate historical precedent when Britain last linked her economic fortunes to those of another nation . |
| 2 | Up to now all has been plain sailing but at the third row you have a straight arrow indicating to select needles again and transfer with the lace carriage and you have only just transferred stitches the other way without working two knit rows between . |
| 3 | And there may only have been one clock in the town where they worked and that would have been on the town hall or the church . |
| 4 | Sometimes the ultimate question is only in theory left to the public authority ; for example , in some cases of review for jurisdictional errors of law or fact in which it is clear that if the authority had got the law or the facts right , its decision would have been different and could only have been one way . |
| 5 | It can only have been back projection , travelling matte or some combination of the two . ) |
| 6 | Even though it seems only to have been conditional independence the terms were so alarming to General Valluy that he flew back to Paris to warn the French Government and the outcome was a special cabinet meeting at which hardly anyone supported the Bollaert initiative . |
| 7 | It is thus important to use language which reflects a real change of attitude to people who for so long have been unwilling recipients of services designed largely for society 's comfort and not theirs . |
| 8 | Later Selene joined in with Silent Long Have Been Those Numbers . |
| 9 | He might just have been another guitar player who ended up playing back-up for a lot of people , which was what he was doing in America . ’ |
| 10 | It could just have been bad luck . ’ |
| 11 | There may just have been some hope of effecting change through organization , especially when the numbers of women were still low ( about 300 at the end of the 18805 ) , though the means chosen were not welcomed by the rank and file of the men 's union . |
| 12 | It was exciting end-to-end entertainment and it could easily have been two goals each after the opening quarter . |
| 13 | Not only was it the first death , but it could easily have been little Enoch , or Jane . |
| 14 | In the event it was Alaska which became the 49th State of the Union ( in 1959 ) but it could easily have been Coca-Colonial Britain . |
| 15 | There could scarcely have been two people more different from each other in character : the one motivated by a keen sense of order , rationality , and discipline ; the other driven by his emotions and whimsical fancy . |
| 16 | By that time , of course , he would already have effected a great many ministerial and policy changes , but there would still have been sufficient sense of novelty about everything he touched to have ensured his eventual victory at the polls . |
| 17 | There can hardly have been any business sector with so many strong contenders for it as the banking sector . |
| 18 | Nuadu glanced at this and saw that there might once have been verdant greenery , perhaps even a small forest . |
| 19 | Charlie stared out at the open fields that must once have been productive farmland . |
| 20 | Some gorges may once have been underground caverns , the roofs of which have collapsed . |
| 21 | The statues ( a late example , fig. 72 ) seem always to have been undifferentiated kouroi or korai , but the stelai , perhaps because low relief belongs essentially to narrative art , show the dead man bearded or beardless and often as warrior or athlete . |
| 22 | We might n't even be able to tell that there ever had been two vehicles . |
| 23 | There always had been that part of him , rarely seen , that she did n't understand . |
| 24 | There always had been ambivalent feelings between father and oldest son . |
| 25 | There always had been these moments between them when she had to give way , against reason , against sense : he simply had to win . |
| 26 | I mean I think to a , I think to a degree we always have been fifty sort of thing when the rock 'n' roll started to come over then again you see for we , we look little one . |
| 27 | By 1988 the figure would probably have been nearer $55 million . |
| 28 | There would probably have been some cutting in Act 5 . |
| 29 | The sample was made up of people whom they judged would probably have been long-stay residents of Powick if that option had continued to be available . |
| 30 | There may also have been certain conditions of the advance ( eg that a woodworm infestation shall be treated before completion , that certain repairs shall have been carried out or a deduction made from the mortgage loan until they have been ) . |