Example sentences of "[adv] have be " in BNC.

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1 Greatly as I admire both the man and his work , I consider Max Beerbohm a dangerous influence — just how dangerous one must perhaps have been brought up in England to know .
2 Although the pins and needles in his legs could perhaps have been from loss of blood .
3 As a child , this pride type would perhaps have been beaten in order to subject their will to the adult and break their pride , but without success .
4 The ancient streets could perhaps have been left to enforce their own low driving speeds through their narrowness , their cobbled surfaces and their lack of visibility over anything more than a few metres .
5 Mama was rehearsing , that was all ; but it should perhaps have been kept for some other time .
6 It may perhaps have been valid in the past to dichotomize theoretical stances into endogenous ( formulated in terms of what is natural to humans ) and exogenous ( formulated in terms of sociocultural factors ) ( Heelas 1983 ) ; but many biologists today think that there is a built-in capacity for change through learning capable of giving directive impulses for change .
7 The Nordic states were reluctant to enter into any kind of commitment , but would perhaps have been willing to follow a British lead , while in France and the Low Countries British participation was regarded as an indispensable guarantee of security against both a resurgence of German militarism and the shadowy threat of the Soviet Union .
8 In particular , plankton evolution could perhaps have been stimulated by a drastic change in ocean current systems consequent upon Pangaea breakup , but the sea-level rise might have been just as significant .
9 Technically , such receipts , unlike share certificates , have no value as collateral , though a layman could perhaps have been duped .
10 The first four should perhaps have been Giants , although the number of good female reads is a bit too heavy in April .
11 To counter these claims he tempers the language slightly : ‘ The article should perhaps have been entitled the ‘ implications ’ rather than the consequences of literacy . ’
12 There is also a small late building on a totally different alignment ( almost east-west ) which could perhaps have been a small Christian shrine , erected to counteract pagan influence .
13 By 1914 the exchanges were filling 3,000 vacancies a day , but these would perhaps have been filled even in their absence .
14 I wonder if deep down that peppery gentleman 's irritation might perhaps have been due to fear that once the gaff about whisky not being suitable for the kitchen was blown the master 's bottle would no longer be quite sacrosanct .
15 The creoles ' desire for office , economic freedom , and free trade could never perhaps have been satisfied within the static Spanish theory of imperialism .
16 With greater beauty , I would perhaps have been sooner there .
17 Eric would perhaps have been killed or wounded and the suspicious position of the car might well have been noticed by somebody .
18 Her best coat would perhaps have been better because it would make her look as though she had n't let herself go , but on the other hand her frightful old lumber jacket would have suggested , what was true enough , that she was worried enough not to care .
19 It would perhaps have been more accurate in the discussion to use terms such as load and extension .
20 Having ignored her for forty minutes whilst they failed to answer questions about Amy to which she might know the answer , Theodora might perhaps have been forgiven for telling them nothing .
21 This suggests that Lotka 's Law has limitations at the extremes , but since the Law is related to Normal Distribution statistics , this should perhaps have been expected .
22 This suggests that Lotka 's Law has limitations at the extremes , but since the Law is related to Normal Distribution statistics , this should perhaps have been expected .
23 The result might perhaps have been different if the money was in a collecting box .
24 It would perhaps have been entirely adequate if I had received it in any normal circumstances .
25 They should perhaps have been higher on the agenda than appears to have been the case .
26 Now the Temperance Hall was a very very nice hall er balcony all the way around , it held five or six hundred people er candelabras and all the rest of it , a lovely stage and these travelling concert parties used to come round on a Saturday night , and I should imagine they 'd be doing the seasides during the summer and then they came back in the Walsall and various areas during the er winter months , and we used to get concert parties like The Roosters and The Bonbons and all those sort of people come along and they were real and of course fellas my age , I mean eighteen and nine we used to take our girls there I mean it was full of young people er you 'd perhaps have been to the pictures one night and it 's another way of entertaining really and it was really a first class entertainment .
27 The decision to carry out a Caesarian section should perhaps have been taken after the 4.30pm examination when the heartbeat was known to have decelerated , he said .
28 Very heavy Syrian casualties would apparently have been deemed a lesser price to pay than the probable failure of anything less than what the general 's men say was planned : a full-scale armoured and infantry assault involving 40,000 men on five main axes along a 50-kilometre front .
29 Next week , if the plot had not been uncovered , it would apparently have been the turn of his white comrade , Joe Slovo .
30 Some of these functions are best performed by University Institutes , some by a Curriculum Development Centre , some by a Curriculum Planning Unit and it is therefore possible that functions which may hitherto have been seen as either wholly performed by this body or that may increasingly be undertaken in partnership .
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