Example sentences of "have be [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It may have been during this period that he was supported by a canonry in St Peter 's , to which he later referred as pope . |
| 32 | It also gives the information that Rolle was " accustomed to show himself very familiar to recluses , and to those who needed spiritual consolation " and it must have been during this period of his life that he met his disciple Margaret de Kirkeby . |
| 33 | Could have been on that boardwalk thing that we spoke about just across the road . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | And we might , might well have been on that train that had the crash . |
| 36 | He would n't have been on this airwell at the time , though . |
| 37 | He had visited the place in 1937 and it must have been on this occasion that he took photographs of the village and of St Michael 's Church there ( where later his ashes were to be interred ) . |
| 38 | Australia may as well have been on another planet to post war Britain . |
| 39 | She became aware at an early stage that there was an entirely different way of life available not far outside Baldersdale , perhaps more appealing to her , but it could have been on another planet . |
| 40 | Jamie and the girl were inches away from me , holding me by an arm each , being bumped into frequently , but my drunkenness had now got to such a state — as the last two quickly consumed pints and an accompanying whisky caught up with my racing bloodstream — that I might as well have been on another planet for all the hope I had of making them understand what I wanted . |
| 41 | If I had my way you 'd have been off this boat days ago . |
| 42 | Considering how many times he must have been through this script , there are a lot of ‘ ums ’ and ‘ you knows ’ and pauses , but eventually we get there . |
| 43 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 44 | And question ten , you should have the word Preventable and words to the effect Should not have been in that position and not have assumed that the other driver was going to do what he eventually did do . |
| 45 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 46 | I do n't think that chair could have been in that book Brian . |
| 47 | She had said it was her niece because the girl was young and had black hair and because who else but Nora Fanshawe could have been in that car with her parents ? |
| 48 | So it 's a bit frightening when you think a pensioner 's money may have been in that account at thirteen fifty on a , on ten thousand invested , and now they 're down to seven hundred . |
| 49 | The end result might only be a slight scratch , but the potential might have been in that situation for something a lot worse . |
| 50 | ( If mortality rates for the age group 20–24 could have been calculated , the nadir would probably have been in that age class ) . |
| 51 | It may well have been in that picture that the new type was created . |
| 52 | Said it 'll have been in all day . |
| 53 | Ours went , I think , to 2 , 5 and 7 ; the other floors might have been in another building , or another town . |
| 54 | At the time of the lobby revolt , ‘ No one could have been in any doubt that if they went over to [ the rebel papers ' ] side , they would cook their goose with Number Ten . ’ |
| 55 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |
| 56 | If the highly developed woollen textile industry be disregarded , the structure of crafts and trades of Babergh may not have been in any way unrepresentative of the shires at that time . |
| 57 | There was a small desk , a lined pad , a tea mug holding a pencil and two pens , a stack of train and airline schedules , and a few pieces of personal clutter that could have been in any room in the house . |
| 58 | This being must have been in some way necessary to humanity , it is inconceivable that this is not so , for surely there would have been evidence of at least one enduring civilisation that had neither ‘ god ’ nor temple . |
| 59 | An argument for the co-evolution of dispersers and their trees is that they , in contrast , avoid the seeds , though in the past such seeds may have been in some way indigestible , promoting the relationship of today . |
| 60 | Though his thought may have been in some respects dry and narrow as a result , he set the agenda for modern philosophy and theology . |