Example sentences of "have be [adj] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not use a tape recorder for these interviews , though one might have been helpful in some ways , though perhaps inhibiting to my informants in other ways . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Mrs Burke , who would have been 100 in three weeks , was found unconscious and bleeding heavily . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Getting into a state as a result of which someone died may have been reckless in ordinary language but there was a gap in time , a lack of contemporaneity , between the getting into the state and the victim 's death . |
| 7 | She already had her travelling companion , Swimmer of Lakes , and if she thought of the wild horses in the valley at all it was simply to wonder about the legend of the tamers : to subdue the spirit of the wild animal ; to be permitted to ride upon its back ; yes , magic would have been necessary in early thought , and cult legends certainly would have grown around the hunters who snared the fast , proud creatures . |
| 8 | But Cuvier insisted that the transition from the ancient to the modern species was too abrupt , and that the intermediates would not have been viable in any case . |
| 9 | For example , fair dealing for research purposes might have allowed decompilation in some circumstances and implied licences might have been appropriate in some cases involving error correction and back-up copies . |
| 10 | Nicholas 's personal judgement may well have been crucial in blocking negotiations with the Kadets in the fluid situation that prevailed in the first half of 1906 . |
| 11 | After all , last night could have been worse in that respect … |
| 12 | Er my Lord er the second observation I make about erm Mr opinion erm and the facts upon which it is based is that his opinion is hotly disputed er , not least because of what it would be submitted is the highly speculative nature of this enterprise er , when you are being asked to consider with the benefit of hindsight , whether or not a business entered into some eighty years ago , was likely to have failed and er it is also an exercise which in my submission is entirely irrelevant if your Lordship would find the basis of compensation which I contend for is the one because the logic of not having to become involved in any investigation of whether or not this business would probably have been unsuccessful in any event . |
| 13 | Transworld would have been involved in 300 bookshop events in the year to the end of June . |
| 14 | Discussion in the staff meeting should have taken place before any proposal affecting school policy is presented to the governors and a class teacher should certainly have been involved in any submission about an individual pupil . |
| 15 | They believe Mr MacDonald may have been involved in some kind of argument shortly before his death . |
| 16 | ‘ Kevin Brown believes he may have been involved in some way . |
| 17 | ‘ There remains a suspicion he could have been involved in some way , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Batty would have been useful in this match … not only in the playing sense , but we had lots of throw ins level with their box , Batty would have got these into a danger area … |
| 19 | ‘ You 'd have been great in silent movies ’ . |
| 20 | She might have been daft in some ways , but she knew what was in and what was out , did Mary M. She knew the right clubs to go to . |
| 21 | His solution would have been unthinkable in classical times . |
| 22 | In the late 1980s , the need for education about the dangers of transmitting the AIDS virus justified a degree of public explicitness which would have been unthinkable in previous decades . |
| 23 | TIMES may have been tough in recent years but matters have come to a fine pass when this distinguished theatre feels obliged to assemble a posse of actresses and two actors to perform what is basically a rather vulgar sketch and present it as a front length drama . |
| 24 | All coroners hold inquests on people who died aboard , if their deaths would have been inquestable in this country . |
| 25 | The second consequence of this unilinearity is that the idea of the standard is projected backwards on to states of language and society in which that idea may not have existed , or — if it did exist — may have been different in important ways from the idea of the standard as it exists today . |
| 26 | I would have been satisfied in any event that all interested parties must have anticipated that the operation of a commercial port would not be limited to the day time , but would carry on throughout the 24 hours of every day . |
| 27 | Tall-herb and Salix communities with Rumex acetosa , Filipendula , and abundant ferns may have been common in wetter areas . |
| 28 | The situation would have been analogous in this respect to Halsey v. Esso Petroleum Co . |
| 29 | But what is important here is that , just as present-day language states are normally heterogeneous , so historical language states must also have been heterogeneous in similar ways ; hence , unilinear historical descriptions of single varieties ( such as ‘ standard ’ English ) can not be adequate descriptions of the history of a language . |
| 30 | The Golf tickets are of particular interest , the B.C.Rly may have been unique in this respect . |