Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well it she could 've been done last year but we 've not done this year , be gone . |
| 2 | Somebody would 've been drunk that night you see , half past nine at night , thought it was a good trick . |
| 3 | ‘ I see you 've been having more fun and games ! ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps they should have been using better cutlery , thought Robert , or calling Hasan ‘ sir ’ and making sure he had the best chair . |
| 5 | Although intended to further curtail local government expenditure — by requiring authorities to meet any unforeseen expenditure from existing budgets — the effect may well have been to persuade local authorities to set high initial rates ( to provide adequate balances to meet unexpected contingencies or loss of income ) . |
| 6 | What a delight it must have been to watch express trains thundering up the bank at Arkwright bridge . |
| 7 | A dwelling in Scotland that is placed in band D will have been assigned that band because its value at 1 April 1991 is over £45,000 but does not exceed £58,000 . |
| 8 | Some of the beautifully carved crosses could originally have been re-shaped pagan monuments . |
| 9 | Implicitly , many decisions may have been made that disadvantage older people . |
| 10 | The long-sought ‘ killer application ’ — aka the next Lotus — may have been born last week : Silicon Valley start-up Arbor Software was at the NT Pavilion at Comdex in Chicago showing off its multi-dimensional spreadsheet . |
| 11 | ( Even our typewriters are mechanical horrors that should have been declared obsolete decades ago . ) |
| 12 | If this reconstruction is sound , Oswiu 's encounter with Fín occurred at about the time that he may have been seeking Irish support against the forces of Penda . |
| 13 | She could n't have been supplying Russian weapons typewriter unlisted phone numbers — oh were those two Second Secretaries on the No-go-Alone List ? ’ |
| 14 | Joe Royle should have been appointed two years ago . |
| 15 | One obvious alternative to the appointment of the Commissioner would have been to give further jurisdiction to the Industrial Tribunals , instead of the High Court , to enforce such rights which now fall within the scope of the Commissioner 's work . |
| 16 | In about three years ' time all GM 's new cars will have been developed this way . |
| 17 | then it you know they might have been delayed one way or another . |
| 18 | He concluded that she must have been reading modern novels . ) |
| 19 | The thing that worries some people is that as it 's come at this particular time that some of the things that might have been done five years ago by Local Education Authorities to improve their whole education for children with special needs may now , either through other competing financial pressures , or through inertia or whatever , the whole spirit of Warnock could be lost , and I think it 's a thing that , you know , one will have to keep a careful eye on . |
| 20 | Could have been done this morning . |
| 21 | By a notice of appeal dated 13 August 1991 the applicant appealed against that decision of the Divisional Court on the grounds , inter alia , that it had erred ( 1 ) in holding that there was no obligation on Lautro to give the applicant an opportunity to make representations prior to the issue of that notice ; ( 2 ) in asserting that there was a principle of law that a regulatory body should know with precision from whom they must invite representations ; ( 3 ) in perceiving any difficulty in identifying persons who should have been given advance notification , so as to be treated fairly , of any proposals by Lautro to issue a notice since such notification should at least be given to anyone who would be directly affected by such a notice and/or whose conduct was in issue ; ( 4 ) in regarding as apposite the remarks of Lord Diplock in Cheall v. Association of Professional Executive Clerical and Computer Staff [ 1983 ] 2 A.C. 180 , 190A since the non-application of the legal concept of natural justice to all persons effected by but not parties to a dispute was not and had never been in issue ; and ( 5 ) in failing to have regard to the absence of any rights of appeal according to the rules of Lautro in deciding whether the principle of natural justice applied . |
| 22 | Pereira , 21 , was once world junior champion but is now world-ranked 154 and would not have been given much chance of defeating Borg when the Swede was in his prime . |
| 23 | This categorisation could have been carried out in other ways , and other purposes seen here as secondary could have been given greater prominence . |
| 24 | As might be expected , policy rules of quite formidable complexity have been developed in the rational expectations literature , the best known of these being that proposed by Barro ( 1977 ) in which he attempts to model the process by which the growth in the money supply is determined and , on the basis of the prediction of what the money supply should have been given known values for its determining variables , to derive a time series for ‘ anticipated ’ changes in the money supply . |
| 25 | Max Jacob believed he should have been given full credit for persuading Modi to return to painting . |
| 26 | In a rather larger number of situations the authorities will have quite explicit duties but will not have been given detailed guidance on how to carry them out . |
| 27 | Critical discourse might have been given more space , especially in the context of the brief discussion of " canon " , but it is well handled in the earlier volume by Durant and Fabb , so can be picked up again in a course which focuses more clearly on literary texts using that book . |
| 28 | With hindsight this final point should have been given more significance from the start . |
| 29 | the Vendor shall be under no liability in respect of any of the Warranties unless the Vendor shall have been given written notice by the Purchaser of a specific breach of the Warranties prior to the second anniversary of Completion ; |
| 30 | Ideally , the teams studied might have been serving similar populations with similar levels of staffing and other resources , and the samples might have been carefully standardized . |