Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IF some of the jurors had suffered from rheumatoid arthritis , as I have done for 33 years , the verdict would have been emphatically in favour of Dr Cox . |
| 2 | There were some irreverent proposals to perform the ultimate experiment and try injecting material extracted from Ungar 's brain into his critics — a human trial that I suspect Ungar himself might have been rather in favour of ! |
| 3 | It was twenty to eleven when you said goodbye to Hatton and Pertwee and even walking none too fast you should have been indoors at home by eleven . |
| 4 | She wished he could have been here for Christmas . |
| 5 | She could have been here with Gran . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Parts of the old Norman church still remain , ’ Esme explains , ‘ so would have been here in Cadfael 's day The church features in Sanctuary Sparrow and again in Eye Witness , where the blind old Welshman , Rhodri Fychan , begs by the west door . |
| 7 | ‘ It would have been just like Chris to hide the Grimoire down there , ’ Donna said , pointing towards the abyss beyond the steps . |
| 8 | ‘ It would have been just like Jean to have gone along for the journey . ’ |
| 9 | The invitation must have been largely in terms of a general specification involving basic designs and performance , for the prices varied greatly , depending on the type of hauling gear and the amount of sophistication of the secondary equipment . |
| 10 | Although the first half had been surprisingly passionless , it was Liverpool who were easily the better side , and had Ronnie Rosenthal seized three opportunities , they would have been comfortably in front by half time . |
| 11 | Eleanor Bell ( d.1827 ) has a scarlet velvet upholstered elm case which , with its cherub grip-plates , might have been equally at home in the 1720s were it not for the idiosyncratic decoration of the lid . |
| 12 | If the line of the Gallery was maintained then the exit to La Scala would have been equally off line . |
| 13 | In Sweden teachers collected 10 000 slide-rules , which would have been enough for students starting in 1983 and 1984 . |
| 14 | Telepathic communication , for us still the domain of science fiction or fringe experimentation , may be part of a dolphin 's daily life , and may have been so for centuries . |
| 15 | No doubt it would have been so to Descartes , Malebranche , and Locke : they might have agreed with Berkeley that what we perceive are ideas . |
| 16 | Half a century ago it would have been so in fact . |
| 17 | The T-55s , at least , would not have been much in evidence in their previous table-top forays against the Red Army . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He had n't counted on the opposition of Hugh de Tracy 's priestly brother , who should have been safely at home in his monastery , where he could n't cause any trouble . |
| 20 | They should have been safely under lock and key . |
| 21 | Herluin saw him , and uttered a wordless cry , rather of vexation than surprise or alarm , for by this time the steward should have been home in Ramsey , all his booty safely delivered . |
| 22 | The Roman Emperor Antonine , while he would have looked in vain for the wall he built across Scotland 2,000 years before , would have been quite at home in the vast amphitheatre of Celtic Park . |
| 23 | He would have been quite at home in those Trafalgar square riots . |
| 24 | Until a few years ago it was possible to stand on the incline , particularly in summer , without becoming the least aware that here once stood one of the most complex and sophisticated pieces of apparatus ever constructed on English canals , and the idea of two narrow boats going up while another pair came down would have been quite beyond belief . |
| 25 | It can not have been only in relation to land that £40 had a special significance . |
| 26 | This attitude , on the part of their sources , is basically foreign to Marx 's and Engels 's overall work , and one feels they would have been more at home with the work of more modern prehistorians . |
| 27 | He might have been more at home in some of the radical Protestant sects that began to appear in England and — later — in America during the seventeenth century . |
| 28 | It was obvious that Matthew would have been more at home at the little desk by the window , where there was only a kitchen chair to sit on . |
| 29 | The water scene on each side of the mill could not have been more in contrast . |
| 30 | Perhaps the Thunderbird 's one-sided peghead might have been more in keeping with Gibson 's bold step into the next century . |