Example sentences of "have been [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gary Kemp 's portrayal of the homosexual psychopath Ronnie is utterly chilling ; we are not shown what he does in bed , but it can not have been much fun for his boyfriend . |
| 2 | ‘ He ca n't have been much fun to live with ; his wife would n't necessarily have been heartbroken , ’ Guy commented drily , finally releasing her and going in search of a large box of tissues . |
| 3 | I would n't have been much competition by the side of sexy George , but still , a man has his pride . |
| 4 | Before the meeting , you know at the moment John Major is in Moscow , erm before that meeting there 'll have been much work done by the officials on briefing papers , on trying to identify the potential issues that are going to come up in the meeting , there 'll have been a lot of background work that would be similar er to patterns of relationships between various departments erm in any process of decision making . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , I do not believe for one moment — I made this point on enough occasions to the hon. Member for Antrim , East ( Mr. Beggs ) — that , if we had not given potential investors the opportunity to buy a power station that could be converted to gas , there would have been much hope of bringing a gas pipeline to Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | Times were not easy and there would have been much evidence of hardship , although actually we know very little of the ordinary day-to-day life of the miner and his family . |
| 7 | There would not have been much music , one is suddenly reminded or much singing and dancing where Anna came from . |
| 8 | He would have been much surpris 'd to know my true Opinion on these matters , but I did not chuse to let him be so much familiar , I kept mum , and smiled and nodded as best I might , keeping my Thoughts to myself . |
| 9 | ‘ There would n't have been much point in fusing only half the lighting system , would there ? ’ |
| 10 | Neath , the leading Welsh club side of the moment , were more or less ignored because although their forwards could get around better than anyone else 's there would not have been much point if they could not win the ball in the first place . |
| 11 | In that era , so much of the day was spent climbing in and out of the correct clothes that there ca n't have been much time left for recreation . |
| 12 | ‘ It would n't have been much use if she had . |
| 13 | Rachaela could imagine Emma would have been all congratulations and the joys of womanhood . |
| 14 | He thought of sitting down to wait for a break in the storm but that could have been all night so he struggled on downhill , angling a little to the left , until he met the treeline at the bottom of the meadow . |
| 15 | It was n't , it definitely was n't the tablets because i if , if it had done that to you , it would have been all day . |
| 16 | ‘ But that noise need n't have been a retch — could have been all sorts of things . ’ |
| 17 | There could have been little expectation , especially after the war resumed in 1369 , that circumstances would again favour papal taxation : yet they did . |
| 18 | I am not spreading or sagging , the glow of an early sun tan had probably removed a year or two and I 've discovered that lipstick does wonders , but there could have been little doubt in his mind that I was closer in age to his mother than to him . |
| 19 | But these were the only two films he had made in seven years , and there could have been little doubt that his particular tradition of uniformed , clenched , period Englishmen had become unfashionable in America with the coming of the new realist cinema immediately after the war . |
| 20 | To execute him for treason indeed would have been little help to the government in its attempt to crush and discredit the Reformation , but they could not proceed against him for heresy in due form until England was reconciled with the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 21 | Until recently there would have been little dispute with the Keynesian view that the maintenance of demand in the economy was one of the central responsibilities of governments . |
| 22 | It is easy at this distance in time to explain the pattern away as an inevitable feature of the wider transition from one form of economy to another , but there can have been little pleasure for families like the Eldridges or Mepkins of Battle whose members appeared regularly in the poor-relief accounts over several generations . |
| 23 | If MI5 had obeyed the 1952 Maxwell Fyfe guidelines then there would have been little cause for complaint about its activities over the past 35 years . |
| 24 | If this had been a reflection of basic principles of justice there could have been little cause for complaint , but in fact an examination of the position shows clearly that this was not the case . |
| 25 | On foot there would have been little danger for a man alone ; even on horseback not much . |
| 26 | There would have been little room to work or store on the gallery , but it could have been a convenient place to display finished work for the approval of the merchants riding round the countryside in search of stock , as the main road passes nearby and upon which the main flow of riders would have travelled . |
| 27 | If young people posed no threat in terms of allegiance , there would have been little need of so many reform programmes . |
| 28 | ‘ And there would have been little risk , if they had bothered to ask at Snow Hill what time the beat constable was due to pass by . |
| 29 | For example , there may have been little point in devising an ‘ inner area ’ and allocating resources to it . |
| 30 | ( 2 ) Some of the express provisions of section 10(9) — for example paragraphs ( c ) and ( d ) ( i ) — as to the matters to which the court is to have particular regard in deciding an application for leave to apply for a section 8 order would be otiose if the whole application were subject to the overriding provisions of section 1(1). ( 3 ) There would have been little point in Parliament providing that the court was to have particular regard to the wishes and feelings of the child 's parent , if the whole decision were to be subject to the overriding ( paramount ) consideration of the child 's welfare . |