Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] have [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there were other motives , of fashion and adventure and the hope of promotion , which are likely to have been more powerful with many recruits . |
| 2 | By the late eleventh century village churches are likely to have been fairly common : it is known that there were over 400 in Kent . |
| 3 | He was a man of great vision and he would , I feel , not have been greatly surprised that this old castle might one day be part of a seat of learning and a university , but he would I am sure have been very proud , that it carries his name ‘ Napier University ’ . |
| 4 | They are unlikely to have been less subjective — or contestable . |
| 5 | I am hungry having been too upset for my morning egg because of a difficulty with the soldiers which Pa refused to do anything about , then heartlessly reproduced the very same egg for my lunch . |