Example sentences of "have be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may have been shortly after this that he served ( so J. Capgrave says ) in the Italian crusades launched against the enemies of Pope John XXII . |
| 2 | The cat may have been away but the mice certainly did not play in this TNT Gold Cup game at sunny Windsor . |
| 3 | This may have been partly because iron hulls resisted the vibration of the early engines better than wooden ones and also because fouling was less of a problem with continuous speeds and shorter voyages . |
| 4 | His promotion in 1644 to the important post of co-secretary to the new committee of both kingdoms may have been partly because he was already known to , and trusted by , its Scottish members , but also suggests more direct patronage . |
| 5 | Had they done that we have little doubt that the tribunal decision would have been otherwise than it was . ’ |
| 6 | It could hardly have been otherwise when Thatcher and Kinnock were visiting Moscow and Washington to discuss Britain 's defence policy . |
| 7 | Lord Denning said that the result would have been otherwise if the plaintiff had been e.g. hit in the eye by a shot from a negligent sportsman . |
| 8 | It would have been otherwise if he had covenanted to paint in the quarter " preceding the expiry or sooner determination of the said term " . |
| 9 | The decision would have been otherwise if no value had been assigned , as in the Irish Supreme Court decision in Flynn v Mackin [ 1974 ] IR 101 . |
| 10 | An understanding of this should have been well and truly introduced into the minds of children by the time they are old enough to play such games as those which simulate parental behaviour . |
| 11 | That would have been rather But I come out here but I can not see you know you can just just get them I seen some in that |
| 12 | It would have been physically and economically impossible for the whole of Africa , for example , to twist and turn its way out of the straitjacket that colonialism imposed upon its economies and industrialize to the point where it could compete effectively on the world market in the space of 10 years . |
| 13 | Such children will have passed along a string of carers and may have been physically and sexually abused . |
| 14 | What we are supposing is that everything could have been exactly as it was except for the non-occurrence of the smell of the candles . |
| 15 | He says he 's never seen anything like it ; he reckons some of the stuff must have been here since before the First World War . |
| 16 | In response to Frankish currency reform he began to mint new silver pennies in the 760s and 770s , when London emerges as an important royal Mercian minting centre , if not Offa 's principal mint ; it may have been here that his first coins were produced . |
| 17 | And it may have been here that a Staufen protest to the pope was drawn up . |
| 18 | ‘ He might have been here if you had . |
| 19 | On the other hand , if he had n't been so keen on interfering there would not have been any tension because she would not have been here or even in France at all . |
| 20 | It must have been just after I left , thought Joan . |
| 21 | And if you phoned me early in the year it must have been just after we got the V W. |
| 22 | It must have been just before Boswell picked her up . |
| 23 | It must have been just before I left home in November . |
| 24 | He maintains that what we take to have been the causal circumstance might have existed as it did , and the rest of the universe might have been just as it was-and there might have been no smell . |
| 25 | To rely upon the 1982 accounts as providing a reason for deciding to discount these bills would have been reckless ; it would have been just and equitable to require Union Discount to bear the whole of the loss . ’ |
| 26 | it could have been just because it 's , just had just newly changed hands and it might have |
| 27 | This hidey-hole in the house may have been cunningly and expertly contrived , but it was a bleak and dismal place for a man of thirty to live in . |
| 28 | Lord Coulsfield said the sentence would have been longer but for the fact that after the crimes were brought to light , the accused had to wait 15 months for his court appearance . |
| 29 | She must have been upstairs because almost as if in answer to him we heard her heavy tread on the stairs . |
| 30 | The right time would have been immediately after he had joined , when he was still almost dizzy with anger at the way the city 's Lord Mayor , Tomas MacCurtain , had been murdered . |