Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The really phenomenal success of these materials during the last thirty years or so has been due to the combination of cheap and rapid mass-production with adequate toughness — added of course to chemical inertness , lightweight and bright and cheerful , not to say garish , colours . |
| 2 | The people who decide whether to believe them or not have been able to check their own stocks quickly , to make sure no bombs or material are missing . |
| 3 | We will be recording er , talking to individual groups that are interested in , in er expressing their views , particularly groups that perhaps have been involved with the protest , and er are you know , not happy with , with some aspects of the motorway . |
| 4 | Slave owners who became Christians revolutionised their treatment of slaves , giving to them the justice and the fair treatment that hitherto had been unknown in the ancient world . |
| 5 | By moving indoors , several airframes could commence restoration programmes that before had been difficult , or just very cold ! |
| 6 | These leaders have tried the forceful suppression of such activities , but inevitably have failed to maintain the state thus established and eventually have been obliged to retract . |
| 7 | To begin with , however , the moment of opportunity that was presented in Vietnam by France 's defeat in 1940 was taken by the Japanese ; and although Ho might conceivably and eventually have been right in his optimistic assertion that ‘ if the entire people were united and single minded they would certainly be able to smash the picked French and Japanese armies ’ , the vicissitudes of war and politics would ensure that , for a while at least , they would not be required for such a formidable task . |
| 8 | He had broken his leg some time before and so had been unfit for active service till then . |
| 9 | In punting , too , I have had a tendency to reach for too much length and so have been prone to slicing my kicks . |
| 10 | In cases falling within this protected class , security given by the surety would , in certain circumstances , be unenforceable notwithstanding that the creditor might have had no knowledge of and not have been responsible for the vitiating feature of the transaction . |
| 11 | This quoted the Roman Church 's instructions to its clergy to enquire , during confessions , exactly how , and how often , married couples made love , and alleged that a woman who committed adultery , confessed to it , and was absolved , could thereafter tell her husband that she was and always had been faithful to him . |
| 12 | In fact theatrical imagery is , and always has been derogatory , used to expose human pretence , or the futility of secular life compared to some other existence or system . |
| 13 | The fact that we are here again , just as keen to see the King 's Cross project coming into being , demonstrates clearly that the two schemes are and always have been separate . |
| 14 | He had been chief executive of Glaxo — and ironically had been responsible for selling Evans to its management . |
| 15 | The existence of a relationship between increased remuneration and profits on the one hand or growth on the other is capable of less impressionistic assessment , and indeed has been subject to detailed research . |
| 16 | He had been pushed into this bloody situation by the need to attract public sympathy , and yet had been stupid enough to let the manifest idiocy of his questioners drive him to make a most unsympathetic exhibition of himself . |
| 17 | Thirdly , the application of the rules of natural justice , prior to the introduction of fairness , was not and never has been uniform in its operation . |
| 18 | Liver fluke is not and never has been present in the islands . |
| 19 | ‘ What I want is not and never has been important . |
| 20 | Despite what you seem determined to think , I am not and never have been promiscuous . ’ |
| 21 | He said the soldier told him he had been struck a glancing blow by the car , but that he had not been knocked over and afterwards had been able to continue on duty . |
| 22 | In the previous decade WEA classes and courses were arranged on an intermittent basis at Hoddesdon , Letchworth , St. Albans , Stevenage and Welwyn Garden City but little had been possible in the organisation of interest or to sustain a social movement in the county . |
| 23 | Cynics also believed he was taking a great risk when he cast Jason Donovan and Phillip Schofield in Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , but both have been great successes . |
| 24 | Most were delegated by their Churches , a few were especially invited — ‘ as motley a group of ‘ non-Catholics ’ as ever had been assembled' , as Dr Albert Outler , one of their number , described them in ‘ Strangers within the Gates ’ ( see Outler , 1986 , p. 173 ) . |
| 25 | The truth was that she would doze now and then — ten minutes here , twenty there ; but her dreams were so vivid and so close to her conscious fears that she might as well have been awake . |
| 26 | He had no fucking tools in there , it might have been all might as well have been fucking everything else . |
| 27 | Dougal was wearing three jerseys and Celia 's duffel coat , but as far as the wind was concerned he might as well have been naked . |
| 28 | I could not make out where they were going , and made several inquiries without getting any answers save in Gaelic ; it might as well have been Hindostani . |
| 29 | ‘ Cept today 's been different , Diane . |
| 30 | ‘ Cept today 's been different , Diane . |