Example sentences of "have [adv] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am disappointed because I finished fresh and fifth where I would have rather been exhausted and higher in the list . |
| 2 | If the retailer had committed an offence under section 1 , could Cadbury have properly been convicted under section 23 ? |
| 3 | The way he wears you down , the way he bleeds you white — if his name were Julian Barnes , he would have long been known as the Glacier . |
| 4 | However , what is most interesting is that a deliberate attempt was made to sell it as a concept rather than as what might have hitherto been seen as a package of infrastructural measures . |
| 5 | Only the original ball can be used , and must have only been touched or handled by the player throwing in . |
| 6 | Hypotheses , then , help us to refine theory by bringing more details into consideration in areas of research which may previously have only been explored in a rather sketchy way . |
| 7 | In the past members wanting to enforce rights against their union were burdened with the costs of litigation , which may have only been mitigated to some extent by the availability of legal aid . |
| 8 | But whatever satisfaction Scott may have gained from the debate and the fact that he had been given six months to prepare a new design , it must have soon been dispelled by the public press and the action of some of his professional colleagues . |
| 9 | To give them the right to vote by absorbing them into one of the English constituencies and it could have easily been done . |
| 10 | A spokesman at Darlington police station said : This was a despicable act and someone could have easily been hurt or even killed . |
| 11 | My only complaint is that room could have easily been found for , say , the Pulcinella Suite , which , given the tremendous form of everyone concerned here , is quite a tantalising thought . |
| 12 | Above this surface the hydrogen would have been gaseous , and below it the hydrogen would have been liquid : Jupiter would have thus been covered in hydrogen oceans . |
| 13 | Some of the work for a museum catalogue may have already been done before the acquisition of a picture . |
| 14 | As the kitchen is staffed round the clock , breakfast will have already been cooked : porridge , bacon and sausages , with marmalade sandwiches and tea . |
| 15 | On the subject of local histories — especially town histories — it is very possible that the ground will have already been explored by a previous researcher and the results of the study published . |
| 16 | First approaches to Adult Education Authorities should have already been made for the Autumn term but it is still worth getting on their lists . |
| 17 | The promises made have already been broken . |
| 18 | Drawn into the complex political world of the 490s he showed an interest in the arianism of his fellow monarchs , as well as in the catholicism of Chlothild , and some members of his court were actually baptized as arians ; he himself , although he may have already been converted to Christianity , did not commit himself firmly either to catholicism or arianism , although he certainly showed an interest in the views of the heretics . |
| 19 | The allies could , and should , do more to minimise the chances of further disasters ; they could , for instance , stop bombing Baghdad , where the targets of greatest military value must have already been destroyed . |
| 20 | When activity is taking place rapidly under pressure and with scant resources , there is a tendency to neglect to tell anyone what is going on or to fail to find out whether the ground may have already been covered by someone else . |
| 21 | The file must have already been opened for output and the file handle stored in " fnum " . |
| 22 | But it 's possible the antiques and art may have already been shipped out of the country . |
| 23 | Specific studies of a region may have already been carried out , perhaps on the trade in a particular type of pottery , or on defended hilltop sites . |
| 24 | At any point of the communication process , there will have already been established a certain linguistic and non-linguistic environment . |
| 25 | However , if the pilot is thinking ahead , that option could have already been considered and he could have had the plan ready for use if more height was lost . |
| 26 | Debbie Dent from Oxfordshire 's Trading Standard 's Department says although the product 's been withdrawn from sale in most shops , some of the sets marked ‘ Salter 's Science Fun with Crystals ’ may have already been bought and put aside for Christmas . |
| 27 | However , should the purchaser of the option exercise and buy the shares at the preset price the commission on the transaction will have already been paid . |
| 28 | However , this may have largely been caused by the difficulty of the actual recall task . |
| 29 | Had such language been used of an Anglican or Roman Catholic Eucharist the user would have quickly been castigated by Victorian Nonconformists as a ‘ wafer worshipper ’ . |
| 30 | Given the consultations and enquiries that are now needed for relatively minor landscape changes , it is doubtful if it would have ever been achieved . |