Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The slow-crawl music they produced might 've been linked with hardcore , but it was really ‘ the end of rock , the dying throes ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ I can see I 've been displaced in Leo 's affections . ’ |
| 3 | I know but you could 've been fetched from Grand Canaries . |
| 4 | Yet personal allowances should have been raised in line with last December 's inflation rate of 2.6 per cent , allowing taxpayers to earn at least an extra £90 a year before tax . |
| 5 | For example if , unlike the present case , the school could have been filled with boys paying the full fee , the school would have lost the fee income from the places occupied by the children of the taxpayers for whom only the concessionary fee was payable . |
| 6 | The wadi would rarely have been filled with water , but deep down , the soil was moist , and trees were able to drink from its reserve . |
| 7 | At one time , the space between the timbers would have been filled with mud and straw . |
| 8 | McQueen found the ruins , and then claimed to trace the road along which the goddess 's statue would have been borne in procession from the temple to the river for the ceremonial washing attributed to worship of Anaitis . |
| 9 | Package or turnkey software should have been proven in use , ideally for at least a year . |
| 10 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 11 | His toe-nails looked as if a knife would blunt on them and could not have been cut for months , possibly years . |
| 12 | You are now ready to attach the fabric which should have been cut in panels to fit the wall measurements and seamed where necessary to join the lengths . |
| 13 | Even if it had survived , it is a moot point how long this bias would have been tolerated by West Germany . |
| 14 | And he concluded , quite soberly , that they must have been visited by muse . |
| 15 | That way she will be registered , and she and her family will have been checked by police . |
| 16 | Large medical expenses accounts should have been checked by Europ Assistance but these should still be examined as it is not unknown for such accounts to include TVs and even bar charges . |
| 17 | If the term disorganized capitalism is useful in describing a new set of relations , then some of these relations have changed at a level which might traditionally have been assigned to superstructure — at the levels of ideology or civil society , although these terms will require subsequent careful discussion . |
| 18 | It is important to note , however , that the categories used in the Rolfe and Will lists may have been assigned for reasons of literary expediency , rather than as the result of rigorous classification . |
| 19 | In June 1989 the government refused to grant the fundamentalist Islamic Nahdah movement ( Mouvement de la renaissance ) legal recognition as a political party , on the grounds that by law founders and leaders of parties must not have been convicted of offences warranting more than three months ' imprisonment or six months ' suspended sentence ; 15 Nahdah leaders , although at liberty , still had current convictions dating from September 1987 ( see p. 36633 ) . |
| 20 | A report by the Local Government Ombudsman says that residents living near the Memorial Ground at Tuffley should have been warned by Gloucester City Council about the possible nuisance the glare might cause them . |
| 21 | The octopus may have been speared by torchlight at night , just as it is today . |
| 22 | The columns which they carry on their backs have more fluting than a respectable column would accept and the Corinthian capitals have swirls and squiggles that would have been prohibited in Corinth . |
| 23 | The utility that would have been obtained with certainty prior to the union setting its monopoly wage rate must now be modified to take into account the uncertainty that is introduced with the unemployment probability . |
| 24 | The second crucial question is whether these results could have been obtained without deception . |
| 25 | For example , only three funds — Newton Income , Touche Remnant City of London and Britannia Life American Growth — achieved higher returns over five years than the £162 that could have been obtained without risk by placing £100 in the building society . |
| 26 | Thereafter we head south again through coastal plain and adjoining mountains , through pineapple country , eucalypt forest , seaside resort , along freeways and dirt roads with houses here and there that might have been obtained through mail-order catalogues . |
| 27 | Thirdly , the order relates to the working papers of the auditors of Atlantic and not simply to Atlantic itself but these papers could clearly contain information of relevance to the administrator 's investigation even if that information could not have been obtained in litigation against Atlantic . |
| 28 | ‘ The court shall not in any civil proceedings grant any injunction or make any order against an officer of the Crown if the effect of granting the injunction or making the order would be to give any relief against the Crown which could not have been obtained in proceedings against the Crown . ’ |
| 29 | The entry would have been obtained by fraud in the presenting of a forged transfer for registration . |
| 30 | The registration would not have been obtained by fraud . |