Example sentences of "have be [adj] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The growth of the comprehensives brought with it a significant expansion in the curriculum content of secondary schooling , which should have been helpful to girls , except that in many schools expansion meant typing or shorthand or child-care for girls , and quite different subjects for boys . |
| 2 | The pursuers then concluded a contract for the purchase of the house but subsequently raised an action of damages against the defenders , based on negligence , in which they averred that there were many patent defects in the house which should have been apparent to surveyors of ordinary competence exercising reasonable care . |
| 3 | He had wanted a short Report , with strong emphasis on grammar , spelling and punctuation , which would have been easy for parents to read . |
| 4 | Had this been successful it would have been possible for managers of education and training at every level within a locality to identify major employment issues , to assess likely large-scale change in employment patterns and to identify educational links which might have to be developed or changed . |
| 5 | Cnut may have been familiar with institutions of an English type . |
| 6 | The passengers may have been ablaze with diamonds , but the ships themselves were lit at every porthole and festooned with lights , as they moved relentlessly through the dark Atlantic waters like brilliant spaceships intent on terrestrial encounters . |
| 7 | It goes on : ‘ Too little thought was given to the question of whether a legitimising licence would have been beneficial to investors . |
| 8 | HIV may have been present for centuries in a relatively harmless form and only recently evolved into a more damaging one . |
| 9 | In many cases , ordinary infections could be pinpointed , though some deaths were left unexplained and may have been due to EBHS . |
| 10 | At Forncett , the average rent per acre of lands leased was markedly lower in the fifteenth century than in the late fourteenth , although one can not tell from the published figures how far the fluctuations may have been due to variations in the quality of the particular pieces of land being leased at the time rather than to a general decline in rent levels . |
| 11 | Gordon suggested that the failure to find a left ear superiority for melodies , in contrast to Kimura 's ( 1964 ) results , might have been due to differences in the rhythm and/or pitch of the stimuli employed by himself and by Kimura . |
| 12 | In passing I have reflected its natural selection and our God had not created the fruit fly , it would have been necessary for biologists to have invented it . |
| 13 | In the past it must have been necessary for spectators to keep well clear or be vigilant . |
| 14 | I must have been unconscious for hours . |
| 15 | He must have been asleep for hours . |
| 16 | The complete plan , however , should have a surrounding portico or ambulatory , as would have been normal in temples of this type . |
| 17 | ‘ Having him for a brother-in-law must have been embarrassing at times . ’ |
| 18 | The new comic tone was radical rather than left-wing , what is more , which may have been salutary to critics who glibly confuse social reform with socialism . |
| 19 | Second , the growing belief that two people must have been involved in things , quite certainly in the murder . |
| 20 | They say they have only tenuous evidence Gary might have been involved in drugs . |
| 21 | Other dinosaurs , namely the duckbilled hadrosaurs — herbivorous versions of T. Rex — were found with fossilized ribs that frequently revealed healed breaks , hinting that they may have been involved in fights or in ritualized trials of strength in which their massive hind feet were used . |
| 22 | This could have been problematic among competitors , but was openly aired and dealt with by the group . |
| 23 | To the end of his life Picasso himself did not bother to distinguish between African and Oceanic art , although he must have been aware of distinctions between the two during his contacts with the Surrealists in the 1920s , for they tended to prefer and extol the ‘ marvellous ’ properties of the latter . |
| 24 | A division of labour , for example , might have been different in ways that would have affected the system of education . |
| 25 | Man must have been conscious of memories and purposes long before he made any explicit distinction between past , present , and future . |
| 26 | If a person is rightly charged with larceny , but the jury in reliance on section 44(3) mistakenly convict him of obtaining by false pretences , the Court of Criminal Appeal can not substitute a verdict of guilty of larceny under section 5(2) of the Criminal Appeal Act 1907 ; for the verdict implies an acquittal of larceny , so that it can not ‘ [ appear ] to the Court of Criminal Appeal that the jury must have been satisfied of facts which proved him guilty of [ larceny ] ’ ( Rex v. Fisher ( 1921 ) 16 Cr.App.R. 53 ) . |
| 27 | It seems likely that once the board schools were well established for both sexes , by the 1880s , the same thing will have been true of girls . |
| 28 | Immediately , instinctively , he knew something was wrong ; the kitchen staff should have been busy with preparations for dinner . |
| 29 | It would have been busy with pupils going to a nearby school and parents dropping them off . |
| 30 | It is sad that only this one little gallery remains at Hawkshead , for in the days of its eminence in the wool trade there were many pentices and galleries projecting from the houses , and the market square would have been busy with purchasers walking about and selecting goods . |