Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the chiller and the waterways and everything should all have been done all at the same time . |
| 2 | It is widely believed that if Labour 's national executive had acted on his report in the mid-1970s about the need to root out Militant Tendency from within the party , then the movement would have been saved all the subsequent turmoil in the 1980s , by which time Militant had gained a grip . |
| 3 | It was thought they must have been conferred all at once in an act of divine creation . |
| 4 | A question that puzzled some followers of Zarathustra in later times was that , if Ohrmazd was all-powerful and so destined to overthrow Ahriman , why did this not happen immediately , so that the world would have been spared all the suffering caused by the conflict between them ? |
| 5 | ( If they 'd existed in George Orwell 's day , when they were needed at least as much as now , we 'd have been spared all his sentimental fallacies about the perfect symmetry of family life . ) |
| 6 | If however , there was no open way remaining , then the rising main must have been brought all the way up to the top of the shaft . |
| 7 | Could we have been hoodwinked all the way ? |