Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I have be bold ? |
| 2 | Could she have been right when she had thought , almost a week ago , that Roman was about to tell her he had asked Dana to marry him ? |
| 3 | And if Oliver had betrayed him , as he had betrayed all the others , what would she have been able to do for the Chartist candidate then ? |
| 4 | Nor could she have been aware of the matey tap with which the russet radical awoke the aforementioned scribe in the morning , a cup of tea grasped in his proletarian fist . |
| 5 | How could she have been foolish enough to let it happen ? she asked herself inwardly as the lift slowed and stopped , and its wide metal doors sighed open . |
| 6 | ‘ Would you have been capable of doing it yourself ? ’ |
| 7 | The good points , the points you disagree with completely , but most importantly of , of all , would you have been able to have worked from that particular quality plan as presented to you ? |
| 8 | would you have been willing to provide it ? |
| 9 | I mean wou would , as a cadre receiving this would you have been happy to take this up and implement it ? |
| 10 | But if someone were hiding here , would you have been likely to have seen him ? ’ |
| 11 | Would they have been proud of us ? |
| 12 | Nor can they have been substantial enough to have provided defence against further attacks from the Huns or from the Alamans . |
| 13 | A township seemingly unaffected by Parliamentary influence , with Roman Catholics worshipping openly with , perhaps a despairing vicar trying , perhaps half-heartedly , to depress the old and infiltrate the Anglican requirements possibly to a largely unwilling ( or might they have been uncaring ? ) flock . |
| 14 | Or might they have been Tory voters fooled by Labour 's billboard poster of John Major wearing an SNP rosette ? |
| 15 | The queen mother 's religious views and those of the French advisers she gathered around her did little to allay the reformers ' fears ; nor would they have been happy to know that on Mary 's marriage in 1558 to the Dauphin , who the following year became King Francis II , she secretly signed an agreement that if she should die childless her kingdom of Scotland and her claim to the throne of England should become her husband 's . |
| 16 | Would they have been old fashioned records , the seventy eights ? |
| 17 | Only on pagan sites converted into other uses by Christians would it have been necessary to carry out a purification ceremony involving the use of the Chi-Rho symbol . |
| 18 | ‘ Now , Mr Jordan , would it have been possible for someone to get into your shed on Friday night , remove the Scapegoat and substitute a body dressed in the Scapegoat 's clothes ? ’ |
| 19 | Nor would it have been possible to ask , nor even to rely on any information which might have been forthcoming , since Amabel , who always retired to bed for the duration of her own " monthly curse " had said nothing more to the point than , " Darling , I must beg of you never to speak of this to anyone , when Gemma at the age of fourteen had first seen evidence of hers . |
| 20 | I said could it have been continuous rain ? |
| 21 | Morse took his time to answer : ‘ In what way might it have been profitable ? ’ |
| 22 | Nor in the light of experience and knowledge available prior to this accident would it have been reasonable to envisage that internal pressures could exist in the tail structure . ’ |
| 23 | And would n't it have been nice to catch a fish like that on the appropriate tackle for the species ? |
| 24 | There are general sort of comments that they do n't really know what the parish council does and they 're not very sure , erm , sort of it , it was mainly through the children 's card thing , perhaps a little bit of money that their child , you know did n't me meet any recognition but would n't it have been nice to know exactly what the picture had been for , and sort of the nitty- gritty does n't necessarily get filtered through . |
| 25 | Would n't it have been sad if she had lived her life with her mistaken Inner/Outer Face ? |
| 26 | She said : ‘ Would it have been strong enough ? ’ |
| 27 | Would it have been different under a Labour government ? |
| 28 | But would it have been different if Mrs Thatcher had had a spell on income support ? or if she had ever lugged a buggy , baby , toddler and bags of shopping on and off her infrequent , deregulated buses ? |
| 29 | Lord of The Flies Critical Essay : Would it have been different had girls been on the island ? |
| 30 | Still less would it have been true if Labour had formed a government . |