Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [vb pp] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somebody would 've been drunk that night you see , half past nine at night , thought it was a good trick . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Implicitly , many decisions may have been made that disadvantage older people . |
| 4 | In about three years ' time all GM 's new cars will have been developed this way . |
| 5 | Could have been done this morning . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | With hindsight this final point should have been given more significance from the start . |
| 9 | They reckoned then that anything in the river would have been sent half way across to Norway so that put paid to that search . |
| 10 | ‘ This tour , if it is allowed by the courts , will be the Barnes 's salvation ’ , said National Gallery director J. Carter Brown , ‘ because when it comes back from Paris and Japan , there will be many millions of dollars that will have been generated this way . |
| 11 | ‘ THEY do n't know it , but they have killed children , ’ said Phil Green as he surveyed the charred and sodden remains of medicine , food , clothing and toys which should have been bound this month for Bosnia and Romania . |
| 12 | Almost all the work was done by manual labour alone and the order which Wade sent to Edinburgh Castle in 1726 for ‘ 94 shovells , 82 pickaxes , 42 spades , 3 iron crows ’ is typical and could have been repeated many times over . |
| 13 | Along the riverside , hay would have been cropped several times through the summer , and then , at the end of the summer , the animals who had been on the fallow would be turned on to both the meadowland and the stubble of the arable before coming into the paddocks by the village over the winter , to be stall-fed on the hay cut from the meadow . |
| 14 | She may have been killed any time in the last two days . ’ |
| 15 | He teaches you how to write wonderful , metaphysical narratives , but they could have been written any time this century . |
| 16 | Andrew Warren , the director of the Association for Energy Conservation , commented that the document contained no new ideas and " could have been written several years ago " . |
| 17 | It might have been brewed this year , but I doubted it . |
| 18 | If the path had crossed this line then a clear surface would have been encountered some distance below the clouds . |
| 19 | Traditionally the first window should have been opened this morning . |
| 20 | Kingfisher says that even if there had been no leak , the bid would probably have been launched this week . |
| 21 | An offending tree may have been planted many years ago by a previous owner . |
| 22 | It was believed that the device might have been planted some days earlier . |
| 23 | ‘ Even if there was no restoration going on the castle fire service should have been informed this stuff was being stored in the chapel . ’ |
| 24 | In these circumstances it might have been expected that town planning would be guaranteed a fair wind for many years while the consensus survived . |
| 25 | Indeed , the documents themselves could have been transcribed many times through the ages . |
| 26 | It was so fresh that it must have been baked that morning at Ksabi . |
| 27 | Horne could have been murdered any time between dusk and dawn . |
| 28 | He is hopeful , therefore , that notice will have been taken this side of the Atlantic , not only by Augusta National at the Masters , but also by the United States Golf Association , who are the governing body of the American Open , and the United States PGA , with a mind to the PGA Championship . |
| 29 | A serpentine commode , the central section of which pulled out as a silver table , and a Russian mirror of the 1790s supported on twisting ormolu snakes could have been sold many times over . |
| 30 | Of course , gardens have long been maintained in conjunction with historic houses ; what is new is the desire to rescue and restore gardens that may have been abandoned many years ago , as attractions in their own right . |