Example sentences of "have be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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31 | It is also guaranteeing mortgages at 1 per cent below the normal interest rate , for endowment or pension-linked policies , on several of the houses up for sale , an interesting and innovative service for would-be bidders ( mortgage surveys will already have been undertaken for these houses ) . |
32 | It was indulging in a relatively straightforward exercise in civil engineering which could have been undertaken at any time during the last 100 years or more . |
33 | The gulls you see cadging bread in London parks could just as well have been born in Finnish Lapland as on the North Kent marshes — it 's impossible to tell from their plumage . |
34 | You may have been born in another country , for instance , and still not feel truly at home in the foreign culture and customs you have come to . |
35 | Second , the exodus from the dollar created more expansionary monetary conditions than would otherwise have been adopted by some governments . |
36 | For example , one migrant volunteered to organize the meal served at the annual Harvest Home , but he replaced the traditional supper of Orkney dishes with a meal that could have been served in any restaurant in the south of Scotland . |
37 | I was for resolving this phenomenon into ship-wrecks , and supposing that they might have been flung on these coasts out of some unhappy vessels ; but this solution of mine is absolutely denied , from the frequency and regularity of the appearance of these seeds . " |
38 | I was for resolving this phenomenon into ship-wrecks , and supposing that they might have been flung on these coasts out of some unhappy vessels ; but this solution of mine is absolutely denied , from the frequency and regularity of the appearance of these seeds . " |
39 | Course I mean the m fella would have been stabbed to fucking death if he had n't . |
40 | I assumed they would all have been stowed in one corner of the hold and would reappear at the same time . |
41 | It is argued that during the dry phases , the humid forests would have been fragmented into island-like refugia ( Figure 7.1 ) of isolated blocks of forest . |
42 | To say nothing of the fact that ‘ charity ’ should not have been invoked in this issue , the fact was that the excruciating passion levels broke all records on this outing , bust all guts . |
43 | ‘ When we had ascended a little more than half-way , I was much afraid we should have been doomed to return , on account of the masses of rock , over which we had to climb , beginning to increase in size ; we knew , however , that a descent would have been attended with infinite danger , and being urged on partly by eagerness in our pursuit , but more from a desire to be at the top , we determined to brave every difficulty . |
44 | What is even worse , however , is that as the two fonts may have been prepared from different masters there could be subtle variations between them — even though they are notionally the same typeface . |
45 | By 1997 , the probable date of the next general election , Britain will have been governed by one party for 18 years . |
46 | Mutually important issues such as Cambodian instability , the security of Taiwan and Hong Kong , and tensions on the Korean peninsula ( which may have prompted the visits ) could have been handled through diplomatic channels without resort to secrecy , Mr Winston Lord , US ambassador to China until this year , pointed out yesterday . |
47 | Any attack on Beaumaris would have been presented with formidable problems . |
48 | Though put beautifully into the mouth of Hannah by the storyteller , it did not have its origins with her , but , to judge from its mention of the king at the end , must have been composed for national celebration at some point during the time of the monarchy . |
49 | It 's extremely doubtful that they will have been stored in ideal conditions , and even if they have , the ideal conditions of the timber yard do not correspond to those of your own home — there 's bound to be some shrinkage as they dry out in the higher temperatures . |
50 | The high incidence of vessels compared with dishes may , as Evison suggests ( ibid. ) , imply that they arrived as containers of oil or wine ; the crude workmanship of some examples may emphasise that the contents were more important than the packaging , even though they may have been viewed as valuable objects in some secondary function . |
51 | It could even have been disguised in that box I sent . |
52 | Had the plans for a third London airport in the Thames estuary gone ahead , the land could doubtless have been developed at considerable profit . |
53 | It does not even follow that the research base should have been developed in any institution of higher education . |
54 | Links with parents and with associated schools — which were reported to be few and far between — could have been developed in this situation . |
55 | Gould had arranged to rendezvous with Gilbert in Sydney before leaving for England , but so eager was he to set sail with his precious cargo that when it seemed Gilbert might have been delayed in Western Australia , he left without seeing him . |
56 | The Frenchman 's exceptional talents might have been rewarded with two goals in the first half here in the Neckarstadion . |
57 | They say he should have waited around like a good boy , taken a few duff , even Duff fights , and he would have been rewarded in due course by boxing 's power brokers . |
58 | for he will have been acquitted in any event . |
59 | Were these merely eddies in the mud on the bottom of the primeval seas or could they have been formed by living organisms ? |
60 | Similarly , if the gravitational mass of the proton were significantly different , one would not have had stars in which these nucleides could have been built up , and if the initial expansion of the universe had been slightly smaller or slightly greater , the universe would either have collapsed before such stars could have evolved or would have expanded so rapidly that stars would never have been formed by gravitational condensation . |