Example sentences of "[ex0] [vb mod] have been at " in BNC.

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1 However much ignorant opposition there may have been at first to women taking part in public life , there are comparatively few cooperative men or women who would now oppose women being poor law guardians or members of educational communities .
2 There must have been at least 30 people at the summit that day , and at the sound of plastic and thin glass striking skull through wool , every head turned to see what would happen next .
3 There must have been at least twenty cavalrymen rowelling their horses down the cart track .
4 I could n't see much this afternoon , but there must have been at least one whole corps on that road .
5 For everyone who lost his faith , there must have been at least another who went to outcast London or to darkest Africa to convert the faint and hungry heathen ; there was a great deal of Christian confidence , and not simply a Church in retreat before agnostic scientists .
6 There must have been at least one individual who had a different number of chromosomes from his parents .
7 There must have been at least a dozen of them , ’ I lied in mock modesty , ‘ and I doubt if four of them will live to greet tomorrow 's dawn . ’
8 It is believed there must have been at least three people who knew exactly what they were looking for .
9 A Darlington police spokesman said the gang had broken into the offices , just off Hollyhurst Road , after 10.30pm on Friday night and the size of the safe indicated there must have been at least three people involved .
10 Because the actual physical damage was so variable in its extent , it was immediately obvious to the early investigators that the almost total mortality was not solely the result of the force of the blast , since there would have been at least a few survivors in areas where the blast was less severe .
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