Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] have [be] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ Also the blowpipes will long since have been thrown away . |
| 2 | I was treating her like some harem favourite and she was repaying me in kind , except that any harem inmate who behaved with Lotta 's indiscretion would long since have been tied in a sack and dropped in the Bosporus ! ’ |
| 3 | She said how convenient it would have been for her , instead of having to wait for chaps to go out and kill rabbits and deer and all that , and for the peasants to bring in the vegetables ; she 'd much rather have been able just to nip down to the shops and buy what she needed , when she needed it . |
| 4 | ‘ I think that a valid reply to this objection would be that it is a political objection to the passing of a statute worded in this wide way , not a legal objection to the validity of the Order , it a statute worded so widely has been passed . |
| 5 | Of these perhaps the greatest was that at a stroke all the feckless local officials of whom Wilson complained so bitterly had been removed . |
| 6 | So little had been released from that tight grip , and there was so little natural affinity between them that , for all the hours they had spent in this room together , they remained strangers to one another . |
| 7 | Much less has been written about the organisation of health care in the country . |
| 8 | So much had been expected , yet it was a carbon copy of the wipe-out on the same track three years ago , and may signal a pruning down in future transatlantic visits for the Breeders ' Cup . |
| 9 | She welcomed the work done and the fact that so many people who had been waiting for so long had been treated , but was concerned that health workers who had been working flat out to reduce the lists would not be able to maintain their work rate . |
| 10 | It is thus important to use language which reflects a real change of attitude to people who for so long have been unwilling recipients of services designed largely for society 's comfort and not theirs . |
| 11 | The issue on CD of these recordings which one tended lovingly on LP for so long has been one of the joys of my collection . |
| 12 | ‘ Losing Danny so suddenly and so pointlessly has been terrible . |
| 13 | Even worse , the government 's roads programme is guaranteed to bring even more traffic into circulation , the lessons of the past 50 years , that more roads generate more traffic , apparently not having been learnt . |
| 14 | Set up in 1983 under the Finance Act , the BES has been a major facilitator of the channelling of funds to businesses ( Peat Marwick 1986 ) , many of which would apparently not have been able to raise capital without the help of the BES , although it was also reported that very little of the funds were provided for seedcorn businesses . |
| 15 | I would say simply , having regard to certain observations by Mr. Park in his judgment at p. 8 , shortly before the passage which I have cited , that I am not satisfied that the requirements of paragraphs ( a ) and ( b ) would necessarily not have been satisfied . |
| 16 | But it may all not have been necessary . |
| 17 | LORD TENTERDEN C.J. : Assuming that the offer to pay the six guineas without costs was evidence of an express promise by the defendant to pay that sum to the plaintiff as a compensation to him for his loss of time , still , if the defendant was not bound by law to pay that sum , the offer to do so not having been accepted will not avail the plaintiff . |
| 18 | Independent British film makers from all over have been writing letters of complaint . |
| 19 | So thickly was the snow falling that I knew they could only just have been made , probably within the past five minutes . |
| 20 | I once witnessed an incident that could so easily have been avoided if the pilot had considered a downwind landing as a possible option . |
| 21 | It was the paparazzi who trailed her , but it could so easily have been terrorists . |
| 22 | Obviously I felt for him , I would n't have been too delighted if our positions had been reversed ; and they could so easily have been . |
| 23 | Even the jar looked costly , Alida thought , chalice-shaped , gilt-lidded and made out of what could so easily have been milk-glass . |
| 24 | Had it not been for the empty little bottle in the pocket of her skirt — which could so easily have been swept away by the waves — the fisherman 's description of the likely accident would have satisfied everyone . |
| 25 | This could so easily have been a recommendable mid-price set of Mozart 's mature Piano and Violin Sonatas , but it is arguably put out of court by the early digital recording ( made between 1975 and 1978 ) which gives the violin an unpleasant rough edgy tone . |
| 26 | And it could so easily have been a suicidal career move . |
| 27 | The criticism in New Zealand of their own side after the 24–21 First Test win , that could so easily have been a defeat , was deafening . |
| 28 | A dumb Brummie , a tough-nut Geordie , a light-fingered Scouser , a cheeky Cockernee — it could so easily have been a clichéd mess . |
| 29 | But it might so easily have been ‘ killed ’ ! |
| 30 | Polston 's goal grabbed the headlines but it could so easily have been Villa 's Garry Parker who was the hero of the night . |