Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't remember her ever having been any different , and even Lili could n't have known her as a young woman , for Syl 's mother was old enough to have been his grandmother . |
| 2 | For those of us old enough to have been around at the time of the birth of rock ‘ n ’ roll , the idea of an advanced course in the music which made both us and our parents jump ( but in opposite directions ) may be hard to accommodate . |
| 3 | To her grandfather , admittedly , a man who must have been old enough to have been her father , but still surely nothing to get in such a stew over . |
| 4 | This much had been confided to him ; and he had deemed it discreet to pry no further — had been persuaded of the wisdom of discretion . |
| 5 | This alone had been enough to bring frowns to Felipe 's dark face , but as they were leaving Ana 's tears had suddenly been too much for Mitch to bear . |
| 6 | Can this ever have been the trouble with Larkin ? |
| 7 | Keepers there gave them a bijou penthouse , an extensive garden and pretty soon they 'd sealed their union with a cub : one of very few ever to have been born in captivity . |
| 8 | Could this possibly have been the canoe in which our Halling Man travelled down the river ? |
| 9 | Some ironically have been brought about by road congestion caused by the railway 's erstwhile competitor , the private car . |
| 10 | A long term test of the Tempa Rossa 2 well has been successfully completed and good production rates were achieved from a sidetrack to the original discovery well . |
| 11 | Erm in conclusion Chairman there 's two , two comments are made , we have been receiving a , a number of complaints about car boot sales some unfortunately have been from consumers who 've bought things and er have been er unhappy about what they 've bought - often on the safety side . |
| 12 | The facts seem cut and dried , but I am afraid there has been a grave misunderstanding . |
| 13 | Since 1968–70 there have been more strikes than in the fifties and sixties , and more of them have been unofficial . |
| 14 | This indeed has been the case ever since self-replicating molecular assemblages evolved to exploit finite resources . |
| 15 | The use of propaganda to make this behaviour unfashionable again has been suggested ( Stanley 1969 ) , but no health education programme has ever been put forward to this purpose and it is difficult to know whether such an approach would be feasible . |
| 16 | In other words , and this again has been emphasised in more recent feminist theory , we are dealing not just with a ( constructed ) difference , but with a hierarchy . |
| 17 | This actually has been reported in patients with cirrhosis , Although there has not yet been a clinical or experimental study exploring this possibility in acute liver failure . |
| 18 | This too had been given away by Brueckner and was surrounded by a German patrol . |
| 19 | And there was a passenger ferry across Loch Duich from Totaig on the opposite shore , saving fourteen miles of road travel ; this too has been abandoned . |
| 20 | This too has been conspicuous in all the areas of business which we have examined ; but never before when when he was likely to be confronted with so much debate and such a variety of decisions . |
| 21 | And this too has been |
| 22 | You were grateful not to have been born a boy , for that meant the probability of dying in war . |
| 23 | There was in other words an immense amount of political activity with absolutely no result and the details of that already has been referred to in moving energy both erm in emergency number two , so I can make , need make no reference , more reference to it , but we have left ourselves surely , totally dependent in a short future from outside the country on our energy . |
| 24 | As a matter of interest , I once met a forensic scientist fortunate enough to have been present during a research experiment in which a mummy was unwrapped . |
| 25 | Some members were housed in an annexe , but they were fortunate enough to have been allocated the spartan , but adequate rooms in the main building . |
| 26 | Second , the area was not fortunate enough to have been chosen for a government-supported demonstration project , despite the key issues of homelessness and health in the inner London areas served . |
| 27 | In a pool of 30 WFS countries ( see Table 10 ) , the mortality of infants born less than 24 months after the preceding birth was found to be 80 per cent higher than that of infants fortunate enough to have been born after an interval of 24 to 47 months . |
| 28 | Eleven days ago these sides contrived to conjure up one of the really memorable Croke Park finals that wo n't be easily forgotten by those fortunate enough to have been present . |
| 29 | It was an unforgettable night for the challenger and those fortunate enough to have been at ringside . |
| 30 | ‘ Captaining the Lions would have been a lovely honour , and obviously I 'm disappointed , but I 'm delighted just to have been selected . |