Example sentences of "have be [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not use a tape recorder for these interviews , though one might have been helpful in some ways , though perhaps inhibiting to my informants in other ways . |
| 2 | For example , hydrodynamic stability is now one of the more highly developed theoretical branches of the subject but the need for this type of treatment of the equations of motion would not have been apparent without experimental observations of instabilities . |
| 3 | If the plaintiff had not paid he would not only have been subject to legal proceedings for recovery of the tax but would have been liable to forfeiture of his business until it had been paid . |
| 4 | This idea of metempsychosis , or transmigration of souls , has only occasionally appeared in the West , in particular in the school of Pythagoras , which may have been subject to Eastern influences , since he was roughly contemporaneous with Buddha — and also with Zarathustra . |
| 5 | It could not have been easy for these men to deliver flocks and herds safely to their destination and the advent of motor transport must have been a blessing to animals . |
| 6 | The degree of colonic bioavailability might have been insufficient for other reasons . |
| 7 | Many of the country lanes were so narrow that it would not have been possible for two vehicles to pass each other , but after half an hour , they cut into the main road that ran south from Cherbourg to Carentan . |
| 8 | This growth in what the tourism business winsomely calls the ‘ silver generation ’ would not have been possible without big changes in boots and bindings . |
| 9 | No matter how skilled the executives , these shifts in the production structure would not have been possible without complementary adjustments in the way firms can organise their financial affairs . |
| 10 | Mrs Burke , who would have been 100 in three weeks , was found unconscious and bleeding heavily . |
| 11 | Late in his recorded career he described himself as ‘ only simply lettered ’ , but his extensive citation of biblical , patristic , and canonistic authorities in both Latin and English suggests that he must have been familiar with academic sources . |
| 12 | In the 1920s and 1930s a large percentage of the so-called ancient material which would have been familiar to interested collectors was the product of this well-established manufacture . |
| 13 | A West Point cadet would have been proud of those shoes already . |
| 14 | Could it have been one of these specimens that succumbed to the examining blade of the paleopathologist 's knife ? |
| 15 | I could have been one of those prophets who foretold him . |
| 16 | It must have been one of those men Angy sketched … the one she was talking about packing up . |
| 17 | Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French . |
| 18 | In the entire study population the associations , particularly with periodontal disease , were weak and may have been due to small biases or residual confounding . |
| 19 | The effects of the full implementation of the changes would have been substantial for particular areas and many small businesses would have been badly affected . |
| 20 | Whether Beccaria would have been impressed with these developments is difficult to say : he would probably have liked the logic , practicality and apparent efficiency of the proposals of the situational theorists ; like them , he seemed to favour the prevention-is-better-than-cure approach . |
| 21 | Much of Sussex 's early medieval wealth was built on the close relationship between farming life and industry ; although many villages had specialists in each there must have been many with dual occupations , men able to shift from one to the other as the season or demand dictated . |
| 22 | So I doubt if our hero would have been good for many heroics after swigging that . |
| 23 | She must have been asleep for some hours when the sound of her opening bedroom door penetrated her dreams and brought her instantly awake . |
| 24 | Their mutual nature also explains why , until 1983 , the Building Societies ' Association ( BSA ) was able to operate a system of ‘ recommended ( interest ) rates ’ , a form of cartel which would have been illegal for public companies . |
| 25 | Carew 's bleak diagnosis can hardly have been uninfluenced by several decades of mounting concern at the impermanence of non-agricultural employment compared with the stability of farmers fully occupied tending their land , and men continuously employed as servants in husbandry engaged for a year at a time . |
| 26 | For example , fair dealing for research purposes might have allowed decompilation in some circumstances and implied licences might have been appropriate in some cases involving error correction and back-up copies . |
| 27 | On many of the remaining farms emergency cover might have been available through other members of the family . |
| 28 | Nicholas 's personal judgement may well have been crucial in blocking negotiations with the Kadets in the fluid situation that prevailed in the first half of 1906 . |
| 29 | Frank and Wallerstein 's versions of the international division of labour may have been accurate for some countries during some periods , but the re-formation of capitalism on a global scale in the latter part of the twentieth century has rendered it increasingly less so . |
| 30 | I would have thought the horizon would have been black with converging vessels by this time . ’ |