Example sentences of "have been [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ If we were still in our own country , Andreas , a man like you would have been married years ago and you would have many children to delight you in your old age . ’ |
| 2 | He said slowly and dangerously , ‘ I daresay I might have been four bob down at the end of an evening . |
| 3 | Well we had to keep somebody on watch in case there was any damage , say the ship was up the river and a chain broke or they hit you , so you had to put your navigation lights up and to put navigation lights up we had hurricane lamps , we had a red and a white one , they should have been six foot apart , they never were they was about three foot . |
| 4 | It must have been six months ago , when he started stealing money from his uncle . ’ |
| 5 | Metaphysics would have been one way out , but he ca n't take that , so the alternative is to be a persecuted prophet . |
| 6 | This may have been one reason why the national body was , in the first instance , entitled the Committee for Local Authority Higher education and presumably why its membership includes a representative from the Association of Principals of Colleges , a body broadly representative of those further education establishments other than polytechnics and colleges and institutes of higher education . |
| 7 | There could scarcely have been two people more different from each other in character : the one motivated by a keen sense of order , rationality , and discipline ; the other driven by his emotions and whimsical fancy . |
| 8 | The thing — it must have been five metres across — rippled its flanges invitingly and eased right to where we stood . |
| 9 | Liverpool may have been five goals up from the first leg , but this was never going to be an easy game in 70-degree heat and on a typically bumpy Mediterranean pitch . |
| 10 | Smith , though , is of the opinion that Rangers ' problems , while substantial , are better able to be handled now than they would have been five years ago . |
| 11 | Smith , though , believes Rangers are now better able to handle their injury problems than they would have been five years ago . |
| 12 | His first ministry was brief , but when his government was defeated it was clear that nobody could take his place : for three months George II had to run the administration without any parliamentary ministers — an operation that was not as impossible as it would have been seventy years later , though not nearly as normal as it would have been seventy years earlier . |
| 13 | His first ministry was brief , but when his government was defeated it was clear that nobody could take his place : for three months George II had to run the administration without any parliamentary ministers — an operation that was not as impossible as it would have been seventy years later , though not nearly as normal as it would have been seventy years earlier . |
| 14 | Luckily we were over Germany and not the worst nightmare , over the Channel , as we would have been thirty minutes more into the flight . |
| 15 | There may have been cases where the acquisition of the wrappers conferred no direct benefit on the Nestle Co. , but there must have been many cases where it did . |
| 16 | Surely there must have been many others equally clinching . |
| 17 | Their relationship was civilized and uncomplicated , and she wished it could have been that way too for Vi and Jane . |
| 18 | At that time the Particular Baptists were meeting in a private house and it may have been that fact rather than family disagreements on doctrinal issues which led to her being baptized at Netherfield Independent chapel on 6 August 1817 . |
| 19 | There may also have been other reasons why he decided to move . |
| 20 | This body of evidence is not strong , for Adam was capable of error and there may have been other reasons why the Maldon army had a Northumbrian hostage ( even assuming that the poem is reliable ) and Æthelred a Northumbrian wife , quite unconnected with the absence of Second Hand dies from northern mints . |
| 21 | But Malcolm Brodie , who must have been 80 yards away and looking at the player 's back , could say the goal was quite rightly disallowed . |
| 22 | It 's never a good idea to get too involved with a colleague , but there would have been practical problems anyway . |
| 23 | Gaiters , you would imagine , would have been banned years ago , as they enable the dashing bishop to show a leg in its full shape . |
| 24 | Just as , er just as well you did n't go out because erm you could have been half way out there in the plane or whate when erm |
| 25 | Typically , 20 or 30s was required for a full evaluation using all the equations , though processing could have been ten times as quick with an 80287 fitted . |
| 26 | It must have been several dances later that she noticed Annie standing on the edge of the dance floor . |
| 27 | ‘ That would have meant , ’ said the inspector alertly , ‘ that anyone who knew where you were all sitting would have been able work out who would get which plate in the pile . ’ |
| 28 | There might have been some difficulty there because of Giles ‘ s position , because of the conflict of interest . |
| 29 | Er there would have been some cases where that had happened erm and clearly the nationalists had withdrawn from most of southern China into , into south west China and therefore erm th th there 'd been er and there was quite a lot of fighting going , still going across south China so i it 's not quite the same . |
| 30 | there must have been some money there first . |