Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Implicitly , many decisions may have been made that disadvantage older people . |
| 3 | Had butterflies been colour-blind and bees without a delicate sense of smell , man would have been denied some of the greatest delights that the natural world has to offer . |
| 4 | In about three years ' time all GM 's new cars will have been developed this way . |
| 5 | And the chiller and the waterways and everything should all have been done all at the same time . |
| 6 | Could have been done this morning . |
| 7 | Mr Burke said it was Mrs Busuttil 's case that she should not have been given such high doses of the drug to induce labour . |
| 8 | But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | With hindsight this final point should have been given more significance from the start . |
| 11 | ‘ And I said Mark Robins is a local lad who cost nothing and should have been given more of a chance . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They reckoned then that anything in the river would have been sent half way across to Norway so that put paid to that search . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is widely believed that if Labour 's national executive had acted on his report in the mid-1970s about the need to root out Militant Tendency from within the party , then the movement would have been saved all the subsequent turmoil in the 1980s , by which time Militant had gained a grip . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Although its size is not yet known , suggestions have been made that it was larger than a normal auxiliary fort and may have accommodated either a vexillation , possibly of Legio IX , whose tile-works may have been situated some 8 km ( 5 miles ) south of Carlisle at Scalesceugh , ( though the stamped tiles from there may belong to a slightly later period ) , or the Ala Petriana before its transfer to Stanwix over the river . |
| 20 | She may have been killed any time in the last two days . ’ |
| 21 | Women 's Weeklies You see women have been asked this as well . |
| 22 | He teaches you how to write wonderful , metaphysical narratives , but they could have been written any time this century . |
| 23 | 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 " . |
| 24 | It might have been brewed this year , but I doubted it . |
| 25 | If the path had crossed this line then a clear surface would have been encountered some distance below the clouds . |
| 26 | Traditionally the first window should have been opened this morning . |
| 27 | Kingfisher says that even if there had been no leak , the bid would probably have been launched this week . |
| 28 | It was thought they must have been conferred all at once in an act of divine creation . |
| 29 | A question that puzzled some followers of Zarathustra in later times was that , if Ohrmazd was all-powerful and so destined to overthrow Ahriman , why did this not happen immediately , so that the world would have been spared all the suffering caused by the conflict between them ? |
| 30 | ( If they 'd existed in George Orwell 's day , when they were needed at least as much as now , we 'd have been spared all his sentimental fallacies about the perfect symmetry of family life . ) |