Example sentences of "have be [verb] at [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For exemption to apply , the gift must have been made at least seven years before the donor 's death and moreover , it must have been unconditionally given ; or to use the jargon , ‘ without reservation ’ . |
| 2 | It should have been done at once ; now the moment of surprise is lost . ’ |
| 3 | He added : ‘ The operators should have been given at least another 12 months , rather than having to face a judge and jury overnight decision by someone on the Intervention Board . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The operators should have been given at least another 12 months , rather than having to face a judge and jury overnight decision by someone on the Intervention Board . ’ |
| 5 | Owen would have told the man to run on but without him he would have been lost at once . |
| 6 | The first is that a clause will be implied if it is necessary for the " business efficacy " of the contract , and would have been accepted at once by both parties when making the contract : The Moorcock ( 1889 ) 14 PD 64 at 68 . |
| 7 | One of my bigger irritations is when I have an enormously tight schedule taking me all over the country and I get calls — sometimes on my mobile phone when I 'm stuck in the middle of a field somewhere — insisting that it 's vitally important I attend a meeting that has just been scheduled for three o'clock that afternoon in London , which could easily have been planned at least two weeks earlier . |
| 8 | The obvious thing would have been to attack at once . |
| 9 | If he had grown opium on his half acre , he would have been guaranteed at least 20,000 rupees . |
| 10 | If it had n't been for the proximity of the tall dour houses and the unexpected kindness of a young girl , Craig would have been recaptured at once . |
| 11 | Your three separate readings should have been executed at very different speeds , the third reading being the slowest and the second the fastest . |
| 12 | There is no reason why it could n't have been invented at almost any time in the previous century — it used no new scientific knowledge , no new materials , and no new technology . |
| 13 | Not everything was in ruins : rising through the rubble were banks of communications and control consoles , housed in cabinets with flowing , plastic lines that must have been designed at least a century previously . |
| 14 | He estimated that the car must have been doing at least 18 miles per hour on the curve where it overturned . |