Example sentences of "[adv] have be [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was an insignificant point in its way , for Harry knew from Marjorie Mallender that Clare had met Minter whilst at Oxford — he must simply have been at another college — yet somehow his faith in his own reasoning was undermined . |
| 32 | He would n't have been on this airwell at the time , though . |
| 33 | ‘ All the coaches in the world would n't have been of any use if you had n't had courage . |
| 34 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 35 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 36 | At this stage also it will almost certainly become apparent that a better job could have been done in the research if only more attention had been given to certain factors which had not been thought beforehand to have been of much importance . |
| 37 | There 's no doubt that the street-wisdom of the English forwards has been of huge value to them . |
| 38 | Aquitaine , still English , had not attracted much attention from either side since 1413 , the military emphasis since then having been on northern France . |
| 39 | The ability to help or to harm was not the least of the tools in the politician 's inventory , and it may indeed have been of greater value than some of the more troublesome varieties of patronage , where a favour for one could easily anger others who were disappointed . |
| 40 | The ‘ sex arrangement ’ she had joked about had been about other people , and their attitude to strange bodies cluttering up the place . |
| 41 | One of the most farcical rivalries was that which existed for a time between two groups of prisoners who earlier had been in different Oflags . |
| 42 | We 're not talking about whole groups of pupils who previously have been in top streams , we 're talking about half a dozen , ten individuals in any one year group and they are equally as difficult to deal with in the streamed situation . |
| 43 | The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that they totally solved the problem of what to do with the brighter child , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes , because the sort of pupils we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptions in their own right — we 're not talking about whole groups of pupils who previously have been in top streams , we 're talking about half a dozen/ten individuals in any one year group and they are equally as difficult to deal with in a streamed situation . |
| 44 | It hit sectors and people who largely escaped before , the skilled , the clerical workers , the managers and the professionals who 've been badly mauled this time , and where last time around er the service sector was expanding to mop up some of those who 'd lost their jobs in manufacturing , this time the service sector too has been in deep trouble . |
| 45 | Gozitan wine is cheap but just recently has been of variable quality . |
| 46 | The emphasis in econometric research until recently has been on developing estimators with desirable large sample properties for correctly specified models . |
| 47 | Andy overtook a container lorry , the kind of thing that should never have been on that road , and hit a Volvo estate car coming in the opposite direction . |
| 48 | And as the years from retirement lengthen , it seems more and more tenuous to group men in terms of long-past work , let alone women who since marriage may never have been in paid work at all . |
| 49 | ‘ If she had done her job properly , I would never have been in this mess in the first place . ’ |
| 50 | Damn Lori and her unreasoning jealousy ; but for her she would never have been in this position . |
| 51 | The other man may never have been in this situation before . |
| 52 | Any landowners who had been successful in this kind of enterprise would certainly have been of immediate interest to Paulus in his search for enemies of the State , as exploiters of pagan superstition . |
| 53 | Indeed , I recall that shortly after Miss Kenton 's departure to Cornwall in 1936 , myself never having been to that part of the country , I would often glance through Volume III of Mrs Symons 's work , the volume which describes to readers the delights of Devon and Cornwall , complete with photographs and — to my mind even more evocative — a variety of artists ' sketches of that region . |
| 54 | ‘ It 's a situation I have seen happen but I am grateful never to have been in that position myself ! ’ says Susan , who lives with actor-turned-writer Andy de la Tour in a house they have just bought in London . |