Example sentences of "[adv] have be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enough has been said about this whole thing now and I just want to forget about it . ’ |
| 2 | Enough has been said in this paragraph to indicate that the justification of telescopic observations was no simple , straightforward matter . |
| 3 | I think enough has been said regarding this today , in relation to this , I think we have supported our police force , we have a fine police force in this county . |
| 4 | But the cost of his doing so has been revealed in all its starkness in the unseemly scramble for the succession that has followed his departure . |
| 5 | Sections 25 and 26 deal with the expulsion and retirement of partners as follows : s25 No majority of the partners can expel any partner unless a power to do so has been conferred by express agreement between the partners . |
| 6 | The number of blocks has been reduced by 25 per cent to 125 and the number of blocks with working interests of 10 per cent or less has been reduced by 42 per cent . |
| 7 | Mama was rehearsing , that was all ; but it should perhaps have been kept for some other time . |
| 8 | They may , however , not be exactly what the author would have preferred , as a colour plate which is readily available ( perhaps having been used in another publication ) is much cheaper to use than a new plate which has to be commissioned . |
| 9 | I have no doubt that dedicated woodturners everywhere would scoff at the idea of engineers ' lathes being used for woodturners , but when I think of the various moulds and patterns I have made over the years with comparative ease but which due to their intricacies could only have been made with extreme difficulty on a wood lathe — if at all . |
| 10 | Considering that Ubogu had started the game with a wide bandage protecting his ears the injury was surprising and could only have been caused by heavy treatment from something metallic . |
| 11 | I stated with authorial authority that only people who knew about the way the murder was committed ( a complicated affair using an invented tree-bark that became hard when wetted ) could have done it and I implied , but with fearful fair play nowhere explicitly stated , that this knowledge could only have been gained by one of a small circle who had watched the Maharajah play a certain practical joke . |
| 12 | Such a far reaching change could ultimately only have been achieved with general Kikuyu support . |
| 13 | Balance could only have been achieved by further devaluation of European currencies against the dollar . |
| 14 | He took the view that the matters raised by the counterclaim would better have been raised by judicial review . |
| 15 | In 1983/4 , estimates of the numbers of lone-parent families seem consistently and wrongly to have been based upon early tabulations from the 1981 Census , which identified 414 298 households in Great Britain containing one or more children aged under 16 living with only one adult . |
| 16 | Although much had been achieved by 1974 Barrett argued that ‘ the best is yet to be ’ ( see also chapter 10 , p. 211 ) . |
| 17 | The largest gathering away from Chichester Harbour appears to be of 19 at Rye Harbour in February 1968 and up to 13 together have been seen on inland waters , although single birds and parties of up to five are most usual . |
| 18 | Ninety-two elements exist in nature and another dozen or so have been made by nuclear physicists . |
| 19 | Erm , the reason that that does n't tie in with the four hundred and eighty thousand pound er , increase in spending is that offsetting that seven hundred and seventeen thousand that you 've funded from your contingency , there is also a net reduction in spending by the Committee because of the changes in the devolution of central department charges and their allocation through committees , well less have been allocated to Social Services Committee in total . |
| 20 | A lot of what we throw away has been made from raw materials which are not renewable . |
| 21 | The implicit complaint is that many British insurers would not have been saddled with these claims if US law and regulation had not been retrospectively changed . |
| 22 | Many Libyans especially in the smaller towns had been able to move out of the path of oncoming measures of social justice : many would not have been affected in any case ; some had no doubt been caught . |
| 23 | The problem of fascist sympathies among the ranks of MI5 at the outset of the war is entirely ignored , as is the removal in 1940 of its founder and director , Sir Vernon Kell , which may or may not have been connected with that issue . |
| 24 | The first thing that strikes me is that my aunt — an almost complete stranger as far as I was concerned — should have been there at all , within the family circle where no friend or neighbour was allowed , and thus in a privileged position to make personal remarks of the type which would not have been tolerated from any other quarter . |
| 25 | However , there are situations in which the EEG may disclose lateralised phenomena which , because of their very nature , may not have been suspected on other grounds . |
| 26 | Important as was the consciousness of self-government , the fueros would not have been defended with such obstinacy had they not conferred substantial economic advantages , designed originally to favour poor frontier provinces . |
| 27 | The Roman copies can not have been made from this , since it was not then available ; so it gives the only incontrovertible evidence for an exact replica being made in classical times . |
| 28 | The progression of understanding of various forms of disease can be traced throughout history : Short sight may not have been understood by stone-age man . |
| 29 | For instance most of this debate would not have been understood by many people in my parish . |
| 30 | The central question is whether animals possess important characteristics that are not adaptive , and which therefore , by definition , would not have been shaped by natural and sexual selection . |