Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No material was found , and the Home Office insisted that if it had been it would not have been made public . |
| 2 | The procedure is only available for proposed and not completed mergers and the merger proposal must have been made public . |
| 3 | The arguaments over the truth of the book and whether it should have been made public will rage for some time to come . |
| 4 | Had the Republican candidate in 1980 been an ideologue , he would have suffered the same fate as Barry Goldwater in 1964 ; if , by some fluke , he had been elected , he would have been denied cooperation by congress and would have been drummed out of office in 1984 . |
| 5 | Sometimes when the glass has been removed for cleaning and restoration it may have been reassembled back-to-front . |
| 6 | Similarly , the Prayer Book published in 1559 described the baptized child as ‘ a member of Christ , the child of God , and an inheritor of the kingdom ’ , a form of words which seemed to discount the possibility that the infant might have been born reprobate . |
| 7 | Michael Green of Carlton may have won the London daily franchise from Thames and Andrew Quinn may have been appointed head of ITV 's scheduling , but they still have everything to prove . |
| 8 | Had the court been provided with the information that was necessary , he said , PW would not have been appointed receiver-manager because of ‘ the untenable conflict position ’ in which it had placed itself . |
| 9 | She 'd have been given help by the Lord Chancellor 's Department , and her costs would have been minimal . |
| 10 | The Leeds manager would never have been given air time on general football matters as he was always perceived as someone who was fronting an organisation that stood for the worst things in football . |
| 11 | More commonly , he will have been given power to make laws , subject only to the controlling authority of one or both Houses of Parliament to unmake them , or to withhold the endorsement necessary for them to continue to enjoy the force of law . |
| 12 | But there is an action group of people opposed to it who say it should never have been given planning permission . |
| 13 | Many Bristol graduates will have been taught music by Professor Ray Warren but I wonder how many have been taught mathematics by him ? |
| 14 | However , the COB Rules that are applied to these group activities will only apply if they would have been regulated business ( and so within the territorial scope of the SFA rules ) if they had in fact been investment business . |
| 15 | A prostitute who was murdered and dumped in a canal may have been kept prisoner for twenty-four hours before she was killed . |
| 16 | A decade earlier the process might have been dubbed distanciation , instead it passed with the merest ribbing and rueful acknowledgement of the new plumage . |
| 17 | The bones of a small rodent species eaten by a small owl are more likely to be broken than the bones of the same rodent species eaten by a larger owl , even though in both cases the rodent may have been swallowed whole . |
| 18 | Certainly some of the earlier building activity may have been misplaced effort . |
| 19 | His preaching was scholarly and evangelical and he would probably have been elected Vice-President of the Conference but for the onset of ill-health . |
| 20 | Like the polished wood that covered surfaces that would have been painted metal in any other car … |
| 21 | ( 89 ) Not only a pin , even a dead mosquito , might have been heard drop . |
| 22 | With a 5% exclusion clause only one of these parties would have been granted representation , and the complex process of forming a government would have been much less painful . |
| 23 | Known as sensori neural deafness , it may have been called nerve deafness , perceptive deafness , inner ear deafness , presbyacusis — but by any name it is a frustrating type of hearing loss , at present not helped by surgery but undoubtedly helped by using sight together with listening tactics . |
| 24 | Tocqueville 's Democracy in America is , as has been noted , essentially a study of American society , and one commentator has even suggested that it might better have been called Equality in America . |
| 25 | The waiter invited them to choose between coq au vin and navarin of lamb , either of which , in other circumstances , would have been called stew . |
| 26 | The 24-hour gap between her last sighting and her murder suggests she may have been held prisoner before being killed . |
| 27 | The Bishop quotes , with approval , G. Bennett on spider webs : It is impossible for one who has watched the work for many hours to have any doubt that neither the present spiders of this species nor their ancestors were ever the architects of the web or that it could conceivably have been produced step by step through random variation ; it would be as absurd to suppose that the intricate and exact proportions of the Parthenon were produced by piling together bits of marble . |
| 28 | During the last twelve months subjects that would have been considered taboo , in this Country , have received widespread media attention . |
| 29 | She would have been considered trash , the lowest of the low , if one had dared to enter ’ |
| 30 | More recently , in many primitive societies , where animism has been practised , it would have been considered sacrilege to bring nature under control . |