Example sentences of "have [be] [vb pp] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I assumed they would all have been stowed in one corner of the hold and would reappear at the same time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It could even have been disguised in that box I sent . |
| 6 | It does not even follow that the research base should have been developed in any institution of higher education . |
| 7 | Links with parents and with associated schools — which were reported to be few and far between — could have been developed in this situation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | for he will have been acquitted in any event . |
| 10 | ‘ All this could have been done in commercial machinery shops , but it would have cost a fortune , ’ he says . |
| 11 | Thereafter he may have been engaged in wholesale dealing in corn and wool , though it is more probable that he continued to lend money under the guise of advancing money against future payment of commodities . |
| 12 | Many Libyans especially in the smaller towns had been able to move out of the path of oncoming measures of social justice : many would not have been affected in any case ; some had no doubt been caught . |
| 13 | Channel 4 said the three illustrations which caused all the upset would never have been transmitted in any case without further editing . |
| 14 | But as he was not an upper-class Londoner , we can guess that his testimony would have been rejected in any case . |
| 15 | By 1988 it was claimed that £200 million of Urban Development Grant and Urban Regeneration Grant had successfully ‘ levered ’ more than £800 million of private investment into the inner cities ( although how much of the latter sum might have been invested in any case is difficult to say ) . |
| 16 | Rolle also hints that he might have been damaged in some way . |
| 17 | Watson 's lament might have been couched in Shakespearian speech . |
| 18 | The gross domestic product which would have been observed in that month if the prices in the selected base period had prevailed : this is called real gross domestic product ( or gross domestic product at constant prices ) . |
| 19 | The first stage is to gather as large a sample of coins as possible by assembling a collection of plaster casts or photographs of specimens in the world 's principal museums , together with other specimens which may have been illustrated in numerous auction catalogues or hoard publications . |
| 20 | Indeed , if the seller 's consent could have been vitiated in that way , Parliament would never have needed to create the statutory offence of obtaining by false pretences . |
| 21 | But it was open , I mean it must have been fenced in some way later on . |
| 22 | Since the seal carvers needed both hands free for their work , the lenses may have been mounted in some way , either on stands on the work-bench or on something like spectacle frames . |
| 23 | But whatever reservations Moscow may have about the latest changes in Budapest , Mr Gorbachev must be aware that the old party would have been annihilated in next year 's elections . |
| 24 | Even though the fear of violence may have been justified in this case , the 30-mile zone and the fact that the disorder was expected to emanate from other than the marchers make the implications of the case disturbing , even in the context of Northern Ireland . |
| 25 | Would Mr Amos have been pilloried in this way if the other person had been a female ? |
| 26 | They claimed a report advising against fighting a costly appeal with the electricity giant should have been discussed in closed session . |
| 27 | The basic expense of providing and running the school would have been incurred in any event : therefore that expenditure is not caused by the provision of the benefit for the employee . |
| 28 | The loser should remain liable for the first instance costs , which would have been incurred in any event . |
| 29 | The serious disadvantages to which the plaintiffs could have been put in that action were ( 1 ) the possible forfeiture of their right to do business within the state until the tax was paid . |
| 30 | It seemed clear , though , that some courses which should have been entered in this section ( referred to in responses to earlier questions , e.g. 1.6 ) were not listed here , so these are almost certainly under-estimates . |