Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] have be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the bands are reshuffled , the trials will have been of little practical value . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If this is not done , a return to pre-civilisation conditions could be mankind-s fate , and all the sufferings of thousands of years would have been in vain . |
| 4 | As the income of the much smaller Missenden Abbey was given as £160 , compared with £262 net in 1535 , its goods may have been worth much more than the £140 assessed . |
| 5 | He added that disaffected factions within the BBC opposed to Mr Birt 's programme of reforms may have been behind some of the attempts to destabilise him . |
| 6 | Cheques should have been in last week . |
| 7 | The tightly packed schiltrons might have been in some danger if the enemy 's Welsh archers had been used at once ; but Edward or his advisers thought they could settle things swiftly by an all-out cavalry charge . |
| 8 | The group met by the patriarchs would have been amongst earlier settlements of Aegean traders . |
| 9 | These herbs would have been among those grown for medicinal purposes by the monks in days gone by and they may well have been planted by ponds stocked with carp in the grounds of the monastery . |
| 10 | She looked exquisite , breakable , so desirable that not a few lustier members of the congregation , whose minds should have been on holier things , found themselves in a sudden , quite ferocious state somewhere between arousal and bewitchment , which could bring any man to his knees . |
| 11 | These guys could have been from any one of them . |
| 12 | I have been most concerned by reports that some students may have been in temporary difficulty at the start of the current term because their grant cheques have not arrived from certain authorities . |
| 13 | The clouds could have been at any height from fifty feet to six miles . |
| 14 | Police in north Oxfordshire believe the same thieves may have been behind two separate raids within a few miles of each other at Steeple Aston ; both raids were part of a spate of break-ins reported to police in the Fox F M area . |
| 15 | Ours went , I think , to 2 , 5 and 7 ; the other floors might have been in another building , or another town . |