Example sentences of "have been [det] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There would n't have been much point in fusing only half the lighting system , would there ? ’ |
| 2 | I am not spreading or sagging , the glow of an early sun tan had probably removed a year or two and I 've discovered that lipstick does wonders , but there could have been little doubt in his mind that I was closer in age to his mother than to him . |
| 3 | For example , there may have been little point in devising an ‘ inner area ’ and allocating resources to it . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) Some of the express provisions of section 10(9) — for example paragraphs ( c ) and ( d ) ( i ) — as to the matters to which the court is to have particular regard in deciding an application for leave to apply for a section 8 order would be otiose if the whole application were subject to the overriding provisions of section 1(1). ( 3 ) There would have been little point in Parliament providing that the court was to have particular regard to the wishes and feelings of the child 's parent , if the whole decision were to be subject to the overriding ( paramount ) consideration of the child 's welfare . |
| 5 | Mackie denied he had been told that and said that if he had been told the meeting was confidential from the start there would have been little point in him , as an analyst , being there . |
| 6 | IF ONE HAD been going to cast anyone in the title role of a movie called Little Big Man , there would not have been many actors in Hollywood one could have thought of besides Dustin Hoffman . |
| 7 | It may have been that while in Japan he found the taste of humble pie just a little too much to stomach . |
| 8 | It is easy now to regard this wonder at an enemy 's humanity as naïve , but as it is the business of war to foster the naïveté on which it thrives , so there can have been few people in England during the isolation years of 1940–42 who did not take the impersonal nature of their enemy for granted . |
| 9 | It was not a contest to excite the audience and there must have been some anxiety in Mason 's corner as it approached a critical stage . |
| 10 | If the increase in child benefit had been a real increase , there might have been some logic in that . |
| 11 | There would probably have been some cutting in Act 5 . |
| 12 | There must have been some error in the Conservative Central Office word processor as it churned out yet another brief for the hon. Gentleman to repeat . |
| 13 | When contemplating the history of the palazzo you have to wonder whether there might not have been some truth in an ancient prophecy made at the time when Alessi began work on the building . |
| 14 | Research commissioned by the Department of Education and Science indicated that the average loss of benefits among students who actually claimed them — and they were a minority — would have been some £327 in the past academic year . |
| 15 | There must have been some magic in his fingers because they made her head tingle . |
| 16 | Since the Wilson Committee reported there may have been some improvement in the availability of bank finance for small businesses . |
| 17 | It must have been some time in August when I took those pictures , Rufus thought , and a couple of weeks later it was all over . |
| 18 | She could have been any girl in any photograph . |