Example sentences of "have be [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 However , it might be that psychiatric opinion would have been helpful on that aspect of the case .
2 The situation was brought about by a combination of factors , with two in particular causing us the greatest damage : the postponement of the Registers of Land that might have been subject to contaminative use , and the fall in construction activity .
3 Although All Saints is not a listed building , it lies within a conservation area so that any proposal to demolish it would have been subject to same scrutiny as plans for the demolition of a listed building .
4 By that time it would have been halfway to low water and too late to dispose of the body in the old sewage outfall that night .
5 It would have been possible for British Aerospace to manufacture the wings and for Rolls-Royce to manufacture the engines .
6 It did not appear appropriate , therefore , to develop one global user requirement for the two departments as implied by the FAOR proposals , and , in any event , this would not have been possible without extensive reorganisation of the filing and reference systems as a whole .
7 tournament administrator , said : ‘ The tournament really would n't have been possible without this sponsorship .
8 This book has been written from the US Army 's court-martial records , something which would not have been possible in this country , where such records are closed to the public for 100 years .
9 Whether it would have been possible against this background of practically continuous fighting in the south , more than a year before the first Vietnam war between France and the Vietminh is usually reckoned to have begun , for either side to have modified its objectives to the point where compromise could have been reached is obviously a question which is relevant to the origins of the Vietnam war and one must therefore look for the characteristics which , at least after the event , suggest a remarkably high risk of collision .
10 The availability of omeprazole allowed us to achieve complete healing of oesophagitis in all our patients which would not have been possible before this drug was available .
11 No doubt she should have been alarmed at this thought but she remained excited by it .
12 And so , Nicodemus would have been familiar with this story , and Jesus says as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness , even so , must the son of man be lifted up , but whoever believes in him may have eternal life .
13 Dr Dichter would have been proud of that piece of depth thinking .
14 The late Ray Petri would have been proud of this issue .
15 Big Daddy would have been proud of this tackle on Dave Mitchell , but the ref waved play on .
16 Because of that prominence , it proved difficult to develop that element of compromise and bargaining which would have been essential for integrative success .
17 During the following months the School managed to carry on , but the atmosphere must have been one of great despondency .
18 For Gordon might well have been one of this newspaper 's very first journalists .
19 The overall effect of , for example , a group of elaborately dressed and bejewelled priestesses conducting a rite with carved and gilded cult objects against a background of inlaid furniture , brightly painted pillars and multi-coloured frescoes must have been one of dazzling opulence .
20 If it does not , the human race will have been one of natural selection 's dead ends .
21 How could he have been capable of such cruelty ?
22 The decline in gonorrhoea and other sexually transmitted diseases in the mid-1980s may have been due to safer sex practices after health education through the mass media and various other local activities .
23 In January 1644 , assessed at £1,000 , he pleaded for a mitigation ; his lack of money may have been due to personal extravagance at court as much as political troubles .
24 However , Lawrence and his colleagues caution that the lack of appearance of ‘ new long-stay ’ patients in the hospitals may have been due to geographical drift of such patients to other hospitals .
25 If you had difficulty with this one , it may have been due to sexual stereotyping — i.
26 Her inner life or ‘ subjective feelings ‘ are irrelevant , although not non-existent ( indeed her inattention might have been due to severe toothache ) .
27 The deaths of patients who showed signs of decompensated liver disease before treatment might have been due to spontaneous progression of the disease and can not be linked unequivocally to the interferon treatment .
28 RECONNAISSANCE was of paramount importance in the Pacific War and the Yokosuka R2Y1 Keiun ( Beautiful Cloud ) would have been superb in this role had it entered service .
29 I 'm ten years older now , and in retrospect I see that if Francesca had lived we would n't have been right for each other . ’
30 They watched a woman , who could not have been long in this country , testing a mango for ripeness : she felt it all over with her thumb , not looking at it , concentrated , unsmiling , until the stall holder , ever-vigilant , caught sight of her .
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