Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [adv] have be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must once have been the focus of her beauty , and although they were sunken now , he could still see the glint of intelligence behind them . |
| 2 | It has been suggested that they were all Lutheran , but really there is no reason why they should not have been a mix Lutheran , possibly Calvinist , and Roman Catholic . |
| 3 | They 'll not have been the first tourists to be fed to the sharks and they wo n't be the last . ’ |
| 4 | As retail centres they would probably have been a success , but they threatened existing centres and the needs of non-car owners : ‘ these and other proposals were greeted with hostility by planners and rejected largely on impact grounds ’ ( Schiller , 1986 , 13 ) . |
| 5 | They would n't have been an embarrassment to have around . |
| 6 | There is a suggestion that farmers were inclined to discriminate in favour of married labourers , since they would otherwise have been a greater burden on the parish rate of which the farmers were the main payers . |
| 7 | ( But it has recently been pointed out that occasional use of these as cavalrymen means they can not have been a wholly depressed class . ) |