Example sentences of "[adv] have [be] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at its finest , it reaches heights of eloquence that can not have been most on the leaders of the next generation and it is music that ought to be heard in our halls . |
| 2 | It could not have been otherwise for the attainment of the required goal of the perfect human being was possible by no other means . |
| 3 | If anything , it has even more justified my decision to leave Coventry where I was manager and join Chelsea — I certainly could not have been away for a month if I 'd stayed at Highfield Road . |
| 4 | It can not have been only in relation to land that £40 had a special significance . |
| 5 | Well it is three hundred and twenty thousand pound that they 're paying to this person that should not have been there in the first place , he walked on there , he built places there without planning permission and I think if the council had played their cards right , they could have got him off without paying out this three hundred twenty thousand pound . |
| 6 | Well done you and a very , very special thanks to the Princess Royal , without whose leadership it would not have been possibly at all . |
| 7 | The water scene on each side of the mill could not have been more in contrast . |
| 8 | The T-55s , at least , would not have been much in evidence in their previous table-top forays against the Red Army . |
| 9 | The S-word , socialism , may not have been much in evidence in Labour 's manifesto or campaign , but it infests every line of their real agenda . |
| 10 | Harry could already have been here in the porch . |
| 11 | It always has been so with me , and will be . |
| 12 | I doubt if I would ever have been quite to aware of this had we not gone through this disaster . |
| 13 | But it would hardly have been so to the ‘ vulgar ’ . |
| 14 | Could n't possibly have been there in the old days . |
| 15 | and the first sort of thing they ever had was just like a little screen it just went blip and that 's it , all they could tell you was there was something in their vicinity , it could n't tell you what direction it was or what height or anything . |
| 16 | Now she knew that Fernando was in contact with Maria Luisa and probably had been right from the off . |
| 17 | At the very genesis of all feeling and awareness one thought held sway which should not really have been there at all : that to be grown-up , to be a man , meant losing a great part of me . |
| 18 | Since our concern here has been exclusively with assessment of Grant Related Expenditure and not with the subsequent use ( and possible misuse ) of these estimates in the actual allocations of money to Local Authorities , we shall concentrate on instability of the GRE . |
| 19 | ‘ If it were obvious , we would n't have been here for five years trying to find it , and Paula would still be … . |
| 20 | I know , you would n't have been there in the first place . |
| 21 | Of course , if I 'd really had any sense I would n't have been there in the first place . |
| 22 | I gather there was a defender on the goal line so Strachan could n't have been offside at all . |
| 23 | If I had specially ordered the moment , it could n't have been more to my liking . |
| 24 | Had that been a steady red light it would n't have been anywhere near as noticeable |
| 25 | But no , he was n't killed for that , or it would n't have been still on him . |
| 26 | ‘ Not at all , ’ she replied , feeling at once alive and full to the brim with the enthusiasm which only a minute ago had been nowhere about . |
| 27 | Worse , the decision briefly poisoned relations between Niki and James , which until then had been well within the bounds of friendly competition . |
| 28 | Clearly , vertical arrangements take a variety of forms , and they are an important feature of industrial society , indeed have been so since the Industrial Revolution . |
| 29 | Anything else has been entirely in your imagination . ’ |
| 30 | Someone else had been here before him , tearing open the bags of perishables in search of anything worthy of rescue . |