Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [verb] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This type of analysis can be carried out for the whole country showing that there are a number of areas which are prominent in the consumption of the imported goods and which may have been developing centres of political and economic power ( Huggett forthcoming ) . |
| 2 | Once all the information has been incorporated , the sequence of phases will have been assigned dates at various points , although these will be of differing quality : some may be accurate to a few years , others only to the nearest couple of centuries . |
| 3 | The West , the Atlantic world , may have been firing rockets to the moon and fighting a war in Indochina , but the benefit of hindsight indicates now that in other ways it was gripped by a blinkered and introspective mood , absorbed by its own internal problems . |
| 4 | ‘ They must have been meeting places for The Hell Fire Club he discovered . ’ |
| 5 | Conciliation officers from the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service ( ACAS ) will have been sent copies of the Originating Application and Notice of Appearance . |
| 6 | If you live outside reasonable travelling distance of the campus , you will have been sent details concerning accommodation at the time of confirmation of your place at the University . |
| 7 | At all periods there must have been recognised places in a locality where goods could have been acquired or disposed of . |
| 8 | He points out that under John Akers , IBM has built its desktop computing business to $8,500m in worldwide sales in 1991 , giving it 19% market share ; remained the worldwide leader in information technology revenues , at $62,800m last year up nearly 30% from $48,500m in 1985 when Akers took over ; and avoided the worst crisis that could have befallen it — which would have been to sacrifice investments in research and development for the sake of a fast buck — it spent $6,600m last year . |
| 9 | The tribunal said it appeared that Ms Oruene had brought the complaint in the mistaken but genuine belief that graduates of English or Scottish universities who did not have passes in the compulsory subjects set by the faculty would still have been granted exemptions from the exams . |
| 10 | You and your friends would have been accorded places of honour , ’ said Oisin , ‘ for certainly you have one of the strangest stories ever told . ’ |
| 11 | Certainly most members of the general public will have heard of the Draize test for detecting the irritant potential of cosmetics , or perhaps the more widely used LD50 , nor will they have been spared photographs of immobilised creatures in plaintive lines . |
| 12 | Their structure was by no means on a sound footing by the 1560 's however , and heeding what must have been glowing reports from England , and having seen for themselves good samples of the ore , they were probably quite eager to invest in the English adventure . |
| 13 | We should have been shown excerpts from Wasps v Leicester and Gloucester v Bath , not to mention Neath v Bath ; though the niggly Harlequins v Wasps match would have put the indulgent enthusiasm even of Starmer-Smith under some strain . |
| 14 | The use of concomitant pyloroplasty ( no longer recommended ) and retention of a relatively small-bore sound in the oesophagus during fundoplication may have been contributing factors in some postoperative conditions such as dysphagia and gastritis , but should not have influenced the antireflux efficacy of fundoplication . |
| 15 | The big problem for anybody watching the opening ceremony must have been suppressing whoops of hysterical laughter . |
| 16 | A more radical approach would have been to introduce scales of costs into the High Court . |
| 17 | A COUPLE who died in a seafront car smash yesterday could have been racing seconds before the accident . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , they must have been selling flowers for ages , Luke . |
| 19 | While Dostoevsky was interested in the noble Moor and the jealousy question , he will also have been pondering ghost-reasons for his own villain . |
| 20 | Vaults with a ground-level diameter of 9 metres or so , such as the one at Platanos ( Figure 53C ) , were certainly technically feasible ; they must have been imposing structures in their original state . |
| 21 | During the Second World War most Italians were interned as enemy aliens , even though they may have been respected members of the community for 30 or 40 years — and even had relatives serving in the British forces . |
| 22 | It is enough that there should have been growing pockets of households within the income range £50 to £200 a year , sufficient to have amounted to around 15 per cent of the population in 1750 and 20 to 25 per cent by 1780 . |
| 23 | Some readers will have been growing roses for years , others may be starting for the first time from scratch , with no preconceived ideas , pattern or convention to adhere to , and a great many more will be at every stage in between . |
| 24 | But they were too far away for me to be certain , and the blinding light could have been playing tricks on the two of us . |
| 25 | Yeah , so if you 'd have been running windows on it . |
| 26 | THE French-owned unit-trust company Dumenil has suspended dealings in its funds , worth £33 million , after the disclosure that there may have been pricing errors in recent valuations . |
| 27 | This entailed an eighty-mile drive in all , at a time when I should have been making sandwiches for the post-funeral bun-fight . |