Example sentences of "have be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before you start thinking about mood and atmosphere , or revving up the party machine , what you must have are the facts . |
| 2 | In them he took ‘ every opportunity of recommending a rational method of study ’ , and incidentally inculcating his views of sound critical taste ; it would have been a brave student who dared to admire Carlo Maratta , after hearing that he had : |
| 3 | And there is a point of view from which Ronald Fraser might be seen as a man of Marxist leanings who paid a professional adviser what may have been a fair whack of a working man 's wages to enquire with him into the deficiencies of his affective life . |
| 4 | If the Queen 's telescope had been able to reach into Patrick 's classroom , there would have been a surprise in store for her — but not for Patrick , who at least affects to believe the story that Orwellian minders are peering at the punters from the screens of the punters ' television sets . |
| 5 | The British government over the water could have been a million miles away ( for detailed accounts see Arthur 1984 ; Buckland 1979 ; Farrell 1976 ; for a summary see McAllister 1983 ; for a summary of all forms of discrimination adopted , see Whyte 1983 ; Hillyard 1983 ) . |
| 6 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 7 | There must have been a push . ’ |
| 8 | However , I never tried to get professional help , and that may well have been a mistake . |
| 9 | That person may have been a university lecturer , a teacher , a receptionist , a cleaner , a waitress or anything . |
| 10 | I should have been a lesbian ! |
| 11 | This fool butterfly must have been a chrysallis — there are a million tortoiseshells pirouetting on the purple flowers all the warm months — a chrysallis left from last August . |
| 12 | There must have been a leak . |
| 13 | ‘ There ca n't have been a toad . |
| 14 | You 've been with me for a whole week now and you might just as well have been a girl , or a boy without balls . |
| 15 | Each territory would have been a complete business organisation in its own area , but because no territory would have been large enough to run a complete main line a great deal more co-operation would have been necessary than existed between the regions , and on a much more formal basis . |
| 16 | He thus turned what could have been a tragedy into a melodrama , i.e. ‘ a sensational dramatic piece with crude appeals to the emotions ’ ( O.E.D. ) . |
| 17 | ‘ It would have been a different story if the brewery had done the earlier repairs . ’ |
| 18 | Hugh Kenner veers unexpectedly into the idiom of the British schoolboy : ‘ Blast should have been a great lark ’ . |
| 19 | It could equally well have been a photocopy supplied by the employee . |
| 20 | Travelling half-way round the world to run in a race that is two furlongs longer than one taking place in the town where Old Vic is trained seems a rather extreme route away from providing what could have been a thrilling contest . |
| 21 | The fortieth anniversary of the founding of East Germany on Saturday could have been a crowning moment in Erich Honecker 's career . |
| 22 | The play is enlivened by the vicious energy of the performances and by a variety of Irish music and dance which ranges from mournful ballads to the jolliest of jigs , transforming what could have been a dreary harangue into an invigorating ensemble work . |
| 23 | Nothing in Swannell 's direction of his play persuades you that this would not have been a better home for Marrakech . |
| 24 | With a bit more Imsak , this could have been a great book . |
| 25 | A Swansea visit to Twickenham would once have been a highlight of Harlequins ' season but an almost-empty HQ will be an eerie sort of place this afternoon and we may rest assured that the Quins players already have their attention on next Saturday 's First Division visit to Bedford . |
| 26 | If Norman Rockwell had ever painted an American theatre agent the result would have been a portrait of Milton . |
| 27 | ‘ I loved the song , and I think it should have been a hit , but there again the record company did nothing to promote it . |
| 28 | It is the high quality of musical performance , as well as the staging , which somehow make what might have been a curiosity into an entertaining and disturbing theatrical experience . |
| 29 | Sergeant Terry Lawton , of British Transport Police , said yesterday : ‘ The train was approaching and if all 450 runners had hurdled the barriers and any had fallen , there could have been a mass slaughter on the line . ’ |
| 30 | The board had considered the chairman 's position seriously , he said , and decided ‘ it would have been a very foolish thing to ask him to step down ’ . |