Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she had been an ordinary teacher , trying to teach an ordinary sedentary subject like history or Latin , she would have been mercilessly flouted and mocked , but as it was she managed to get by . |
| 2 | In view of the widespread discussion ( and agreement ) about IT skill shortages during 1984 , it might have been reasonably expected that very high proportions of Advanced Course students would have jobs to go to at the end of their courses . |
| 3 | The RUC with new Pipe Major Mark Faloon must have been well encouraged when their ‘ C ’ set took third on 60 . |
| 4 | According to research conducted by Strathclyde educational psychologists , statistical evidence indicated that several dozen Asian and black children may have been unfairly designated as having severe or profound learning difficulties . |
| 5 | Evidently the section breaker at Selby Road , to separate the two undertakings , must have been temporarily bridged and current drawn from Croydon since the line opened without ceremony immediately following receipt of the certificate . |
| 6 | So far as Government Bills are concerned , it is no exaggeration to say that the substantial task of legislating will have been largely discharged before the Bill is even read a first time in the House in which it is introduced ( Bills may normally be introduced in either House , thence proceeding to the other ) . |
| 7 | Such an outcome would have caused a great deal of trouble for the council which could have been largely avoided if the resolution had been directly challenged soon after it was made under Ord. 53 . |
| 8 | Many will be familiar with Graham Gibbs ' Twenty Terrible Reasons for Lecturing or Donald Bligh 's What 's the Use of Lectures ? ( see Suggestions for further reading at the end of this chapter ) and most will have been intellectually persuaded that they ought to give fewer , better lectures and devote their remaining teaching energies to small-group learning — i.e. tutorials and seminars . |
| 9 | Some may have been divided into flats while others may have been newly modernised or renovated . |
| 10 | Under normal conditions a male dominance hierarchy would have been previously established and only the dominant male would have had access to the receptive female . |
| 11 | The sentences must have been previously drilled and mastered . |
| 12 | The flakes of mud would have been carefully removed and put in the rubbish bin in the kitchen . |
| 13 | Mills , you never know , might have been somehow involved and that might be the reason why he was under surveillance . ’ |
| 14 | If organised revolt was simmering in the Holy Land , its chances of success would have been immensely augmented if it could be synchronised , say , with uprisings by Jewish communities across the length and breadth of the Roman Empire . |
| 15 | Spectator sport may have been partially commercialized but it never became a capitalist leisure enterprise . |
| 16 | He himself would have been desperately pushed if he had had to manage on two-thirds of his salary until Christmas every year . |
| 17 | Five hundred posts which would have been either created or protected here will now go overseas . |
| 18 | It must have been either forged or welded to the cap or fitted hot and allowed to cool into position . |
| 19 | Police said that the motive for the shooting was not clear , adding that it could have been politically motivated or a crime of passion . |
| 20 | If Europe had not suffered so many years of religious cruelty and persecution , the home-grown cats might have been better developed and ready to compete with the extravagant foreigners . |
| 21 | Mark 's wishes could n't have been better fulfilled as she ended up in a small tourist camp in Kanha National Park . |
| 22 | I fear , however , that Woodward 's vocation would have been better exercised if he had confined himself to hospital portering . |
| 23 | My people feel that the right hon. Gentleman would have been better employed if he had rushed to comfort the bereaved rather than carry out a song-and-dance act among people in Dublin , or even watch a rugby match . |
| 24 | I believe the technological revolution would have been better served if Blackett had been appointed to a real job , rather than to an advisory one to Frank Cousins , who became Minister of Technology . |
| 25 | In retrospect Adenauer 's personal reputation would have been better served if he had retired gracefully in 1961 . |
| 26 | Since it was carried out over a four-month summer period ( May-August ) , the practices of these industries with summer peaks will have been better captured than the practices of those with peaks at other times of the year . |
| 27 | It could then have been further extended and incorporated into a Saxon salt way stretching across three counties . |
| 28 | There could have been further scoring but for the woodwork which firstly denied Joe Miller after he had beaten Dariusz Wdowczyk and John Collins . |
| 29 | There could have been further scoring but for the woodwork which firstly denied Joe Miller after he had beaten Dariusz Wdowczyk and John Collins . |
| 30 | The evidence about the constructs of another person is indirect and may have been deliberately obscured or falsified . |