Example sentences of "have be [adj] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though it was unsupported by evidence , the conclusion would have been allowable were it not for the second piece of information contained in the warning message . |
| 2 | Could that have been Carnelian 's prime motive ? |
| 3 | But , unlike Locke , Parker omitted to account for this self-evidence , and so laid himself open to the objection of James Lowde , a defender of innateness , that such truths would not have been self-evident were they not innate . |
| 4 | All might still have been well were it not for the rupture-discs on the vents above the reactor . |
| 5 | Anyone who has advanced money for the payment of the employee debts which would have been preferential is subrogated to the rights of the employee . |
| 6 | Jackson ( 1973 : 145 ) shows that these interests were hidden by the demands of style , as in the semi-detached properties which employed a basic frame but added a spurious individuality on the façade in order to make the house more attractive to prospective buyers , or the modernist-style buildings , which proclaimed their scientific nature to the degree that elements of the internal construction which would not normally have been visible were externalized onto the façade to display a commitment to the appropriation of new technologies . |
| 7 | The results of this survey would have been entertaining were it not for the fact that this is such a serious subject . |
| 8 | Theorists who reflect about the ways in which things might have been different are bound to consider the question of what might have made events take another course . |
| 9 | ‘ God give me strength , ’ he yelled , instantly turning his attention back to the younger man who stood before him , and whose woebegone expression would have been comical were it not so pitiful . |
| 10 | It would have been unlikely were it not for the introduction of the microcomputer , and in the UK the installation of microcomputers in large numbers of secondary schools has stimulated perhaps more of this work than anywhere else . |
| 11 | Among those closest who should have been frightened was Annie , his girl for a while . |
| 12 | Exactly , stock fields that never should have been ploughed were all ploughed to grow this corn . |
| 13 | She smiled as her father began : he would have been happy being a teacher ; he had often told her that and at one stage — in the nature of parents ' bequeathing unfulfilled ambitions to their children — he had hoped that Mr Fenton might consider her as a pupil teacher ( just for the mornings , of course , he needed her the rest of the day ) . |
| 14 | If it is true that Socrates ( during the relevant period of his life ) is bald , then to say that this could have been false is a contradiction in terms . |