Example sentences of "have been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Becket may well have been closely involved in building the great walls of packed clay which still enclose the local ‘ innings ’ , or sheep pastures . |
| 2 | While they must have been closely linked , it would help if we could distinguish between the circulation of such goods and their deposition in graves , for it is the latter which is actually being studied . |
| 3 | It was , she knew , wholly irrational ; her common-sense kept reminding her that Eddie must already have been closely questioned by the police . |
| 4 | If we were going to cave in it would have been today . |
| 5 | What an attraction it would have been today . |
| 6 | The baton of innovation , in this view , may not have been altogether dropped , but sometimes has to be carried by another team before the British outfit can continue its own rather erratic course down the tracks of literary history . |
| 7 | At a time when it would have been altogether too easy to disappear into the exacting but ultimately limiting routine of grammar-school teaching , Alfred Cobban enlivened and enlarged my interest in scholarly work . |
| 8 | It was built so very near the sea that it had narrowly escaped being carried away in high tides , and doubtless would have been altogether afloat but for its having a foundation of some two feet and a half of stone . |
| 9 | One may doubt if her influence on ‘ Missy of Argos ’ would have been altogether good . |
| 10 | Before Cowley could voice his astonished irritation at that complacent comment , Hogan hurried on , ‘ It would have been altogether different if this Doyle of yours had died , believe me . |
| 11 | It may have been shortly after this that he served ( so J. Capgrave says ) in the Italian crusades launched against the enemies of Pope John XXII . |
| 12 | From the point of view of the people of the Gorbals in the Thirties , fox-hunting and psychoanalysis would have been practically indistinguishable concerns of the rich in the Sassenach South , of the ‘ high heid yins ’ of the world — an expression of the poor in Scotland then , which Ralph Glasser uses . |
| 13 | How much of the liquor in this anthropoid coffin was body fluid will have to be left to the imagination ; suffice it to say that owing to the construction of such coffins it would have been practically impossible to have introduced much liquid preservatives . |
| 14 | While motives may have been broadly consistent and widely shared , progress was in fact often erratic and haphazard , disagreements were many and the early Meiji leaders could scarcely have foreseen some of the longer term consequences of their policies . |
| 15 | A possible explanation is that this jacket may well have been the last issue made to C/Sgt Nicholl in the last year or so of his service , and , as will be seen , may have been scarcely worn . |
| 16 | It must have been reassuringly familiar to him for it had many of the characteristics of the stone-built villages of the West Riding . |
| 17 | No , no , she 'll she 'll erm she 'll query it , but just as well she noticed otherwise she 'd have been merrily paying it and Norm Norma does n't |
| 18 | At least a third of it could have been cheerfuly excised : the highlights from Tommy , for instance , merely served to show how few there were ; and there was a serious lapse of taste in resurrecting their ‘ Laughing Gnome ’ , ‘ Boris the Spider ’ ( presumably performed to give nice John Entwistle his turn in the spotlight ) . |
| 19 | He could have been left-handed , but there 's no reason to suppose he was . |
| 20 | IF some of the jurors had suffered from rheumatoid arthritis , as I have done for 33 years , the verdict would have been emphatically in favour of Dr Cox . |
| 21 | If she had been an ordinary teacher , trying to teach an ordinary sedentary subject like history or Latin , she would have been mercilessly flouted and mocked , but as it was she managed to get by . |
| 22 | Perhaps a memory from childhood when a fat Cranston must have been mercilessly teased by others . |
| 23 | If anything , it has even more justified my decision to leave Coventry where I was manager and join Chelsea — I certainly could not have been away for a month if I 'd stayed at Highfield Road . |
| 24 | As I pull up at the back of the hotel Mr Shah is waiting with a folder full ; his expression , although friendly , contains around his mouth a little reproach that I should have been away from the action for so long . |
| 25 | He was exaggerating , of course , but all the same , she must have been away for longer than she had intended . |
| 26 | The cat may have been away but the mice certainly did not play in this TNT Gold Cup game at sunny Windsor . |
| 27 | And he thinks the fact that they could have been away for more than two weeks now may have been noticed by neighbours , family or friends . |
| 28 | next week so he could n't have been away anyway . |
| 29 | One card might have been away . |
| 30 | She must have been away so we took flight . |