Example sentences of "have [been] [prep] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sad though that may have been for that particular patient , there was a positive side , the cancer never reappeared . |
| 2 | He started to give her expert directions and it was plain that he must have been to this particular establishment before . |
| 3 | may it have been to some such vestibule , |
| 4 | If the bands are reshuffled , the trials will have been of little practical value . |
| 5 | In answering this criticism Prince Charles would have been of impeccable good manners in employing the seven degrees of retort by Touchstone outlined in Shakespeare 's As You Like It . |
| 6 | There was no one else in the hotel who could have been of any possible interest to the assassins . ’ |
| 7 | The only fascination is listening to a song that should have been at most ten seconds long and hearing some fool trying to get ten minutes out of it . |
| 8 | Wallace came on shortly before time and showed what could have been with some fast ground-oriented attacking . |
| 9 | They disliked British interference , but at the same time they appreciated that the British they appreciated that the British presence on Persian countered what would otherwise have been over whelming Russian influence . |
| 10 | However , due to the short notice , Randalstown would have been without four key players on May 15 which was pencilled in as the reserve date . |
| 11 | Oh , very very big , he explained and stepped away from the end of the table to indicate with his hand where the tail would have been on this particular specimen . |
| 12 | Bernard , harder on his own son than he might have been on any other twenty-three-year-old in the company was not keen , telling him he had no business experience . |
| 13 | The contract would have been worth five million pounds . |
| 14 | But for the glass in its windows , which originally would have been in small leaded panes , it remains unaltered on the outside . |
| 15 | It must have been in that one moment of darkness , as she 'd been taking her hand away . |
| 16 | England 's eighteenth-century manufacturing growth may not have been in any full sense " export led " , but foreign trade did nevertheless have a significant and dynamic role . |
| 17 | It seemed that not only the president , but the whole country , might have been in some delightful lotus-sleep for the past few years . |
| 18 | I sent money and a small gift for Harry : ‘ if you can speak to him , that is — he will have been in enough hot water already on my account … ’ |
| 19 | This is the question which everyone ought to ask himself , and the only question — are we as a nation in a better position to prosecute the war as a consequence of it than we would have been by any other arrangement ? |
| 20 | If things had gone according to plan , Jack would n't have been within 325 000 kilometres of Apollo 13 on that fateful day , 13 April . |
| 21 | Police in north Oxfordshire believe the same thieves may have been behind two separate raids within a few miles of each other at Steeple Aston ; both raids were part of a spate of break-ins reported to police in the Fox F M area . |