Example sentences of "have [be] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's an aircraft which has been rarely out of the headlines in it 's 25 years with the RAF . |
| 2 | The surprise choice for the New Zealand tour was Michael Bradley , a scrum-half who has been completely out of international reckoning over the past few seasons . |
| 3 | It is also evident from the available statistics that Sandy Lyle has been completely out of sorts with his game . |
| 4 | SINCE she won the French championships three months ago , Monica Seles has been relatively out of form ( she 'll probably win the U.S. now I 've said that ) . |
| 5 | We must have been right out in the sticks . |
| 6 | Everywhere an unspoken question seemed to hang heavily in the air : Would we have been better off without Home Rule ? |
| 7 | He 'd have been better off to of crawled back down there and apologise |
| 8 | Perhaps he would have been better off with a pencil ! |
| 9 | ‘ No one in particular , but I thought she 'd have been better off with a chap of her own age who would have wanted her to carry on where she was . |
| 10 | Perhaps she would have been better off with the old humbug after all . |
| 11 | I reckon I 'd have been better off with them , they do n't try to hang one on you … |
| 12 | But at the same time one can not help feeling that Proofs is the kind of story that would have been better off as a three-page essay in Granta . |
| 13 | Maybe after all he 'd have been better off like his Dad , quietly pushing papers round a desk in an office at the Gas Board for nine hours a day for nearly fifty years . |
| 14 | As far as the urban working class was concerned they may well have been better off in the fifteenth century than they had been previously or were to be later . |
| 15 | For that matter , she might not have been far out in thinking him impudent ; his manner was innocence itself , his deference if anything delicately overdone , as though he were ready to come down off his high horse the moment she came down off hers , and did n't anticipate that the descent need be long delayed . |
| 16 | Hewlett-Packard Co shares plunged a week or so back after a warning that its fiscal third quarter earnings to July 31 would be flat , and the news that it posted a net of $191m or 76 cents a share , compared with $192m or 76 cents a share last year , suggests that times have become exceedingly hard in the Unix market this summer , and that Sun Microsystems ' weak fiscal fourth quarter ( UX No 397 ) may not have been solely down to product line transitions . |
| 17 | I had sold the contents of the cottages to the incoming purchaser , as well as several large pieces from the melin which would have been quite out of place in a modern house . |
| 18 | This was not Paul Lexington pushing the boat out for the cast , which would have been very out of character ; it was for the ticket agencies . |
| 19 | The Government could scarcely have been more out of touch with the people at large , and was still , in any case , terrified that Jacobinism might even then give rise to a revolution at any moment . |
| 20 | A Great White would have been less out of place . |
| 21 | A mock letter , which would have been totally out of place in the serious political context of the Young Socialists , declared : |
| 22 | If Tim Sherwood 's long range blast in the 73rd minute had gone in instead of smacking against the bar , it would have been all up for United . |
| 23 | It must have been all over in a few seconds . |
| 24 | You should have been there back in seventy-nine . |
| 25 | The sterling/ Deutschmark rate would seem to have been particularly out of kilter when account is taken of the rise in Britain 's unit costs against those of Germany . |
| 26 | Apart from which , this meeting that they 're supposed to be going to have is totally out of order anyway . |
| 27 | For Julius , in particular , it had been completely out of character , that headlong dash into such an intense relationship . |
| 28 | He had been seriously out of line , he was told ; meddling in dangerous and delicate situations where he had no business ; going way beyond his brief . |
| 29 | In fact , I had n't lived south of the river for nearly five years and that had been further over in Southwark until a small matter of an exploding terrace house had persuaded me to go flat-hunting . |
| 30 | Tailors in 1814 were very much on a level in terms of real wages with 1795 , but in the intervening years had been significantly down on that level in eight years , and very seriously below it in 1800 and 1801 when their weekly wage would buy only half the quantity of bread it had purchased from 1777 to 1795 . |