Example sentences of "have been [adj] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so , Nicodemus would have been familiar with this story , and Jesus says as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness , even so , must the son of man be lifted up , but whoever believes in him may have eternal life . |
| 2 | Late in his recorded career he described himself as ‘ only simply lettered ’ , but his extensive citation of biblical , patristic , and canonistic authorities in both Latin and English suggests that he must have been familiar with academic sources . |
| 3 | Whether Beccaria would have been impressed with these developments is difficult to say : he would probably have liked the logic , practicality and apparent efficiency of the proposals of the situational theorists ; like them , he seemed to favour the prevention-is-better-than-cure approach . |
| 4 | In an attempt to find the causes for their disappointment many who would normally have been content with everyday party politics turned to more radical solutions . |
| 5 | Thus even the earliest and most modest collection of phrase structure rules would have been pregnant with new output ; and as the rules became entrenched so too would innovative effort and diagnostic insight become more relaxed and automatic , as words appeared newly combined in well-understood syntactic contexts . |
| 6 | " I should have been honest with that child this morning . " |
| 7 | I would have thought the horizon would have been black with converging vessels by this time . ’ |
| 8 | So you 're saying that they were driven more by there political desire for power than by their ideology because had absolute egalitarianism worked then they should have been satisfied with that because then they were fulfilling their ideology . |
| 9 | If , alternatively , it originated before Swegen 's arrival , it could have been concerned with some kind of political submission . |
| 10 | In this way the client begins to realize that their former ‘ resting state ’ may have been fraught with muscular tensions serving to exacerbate the general experience of anxiety and stress . |
| 11 | The early Malays may have learnt the ‘ Malay knot ’ made by birds , perhaps by copying the animals , while their medicinal knowledge may have been common with that of other species : monkeys in the Malay Peninsula eat jelly surrounding the germinating seeds of Scaphium spp . |
| 12 | He would have been happy with that if only he had n't been placed behind Eleanor . |
| 13 | Captain Bowen said it was possible commercial aircraft did not pick up a signal from the emergency beacon , and the radio messages could have been confused with another vessel . |