Example sentences of "[adv] have been [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this package had had to go through national parliaments , it would not have been achieved in a hundred years ! ’ |
| 2 | In a default action where the plaintiff 's claim is amended by adding or substituting a claim which could not have been made in a default action , the action continues as if it had been commenced as a fixed date action ( Ord 15 , r 2(2) ) . |
| 3 | I wonder also if the book might not have been packaged in a more sensible manner . |
| 4 | ‘ I regret that this whole matter could not have been handled in a more constructive manner . ’ |
| 5 | An initial point is that the LDDC could not have been operating in a more favourable environment . |
| 6 | Filmer 's own thoughts must anyway have been thrown in a tangle . |
| 7 | Many of the comments outlined above have been reiterated in a pointed House of Commons report ( House of Commons Employment Committee , 1988 ) . |
| 8 | The roof together with the sides were bolted into position permanently , after which the sliding doors were fitted , these also having been built in a jig . |
| 9 | The fans that were supposed to force fresh air into this section of the subway and to draw stale air out had been stored in a warehouse in Ohio since 1977 , awaiting installation . |
| 10 | In the bright mid-morning light he looked , standing there , rather commonplace and even ugly — so thought Alice , who a few moments before had been melting in a familiar ecstasy of admiration for him . |
| 11 | It may well have been rooted in a repressed homosexuality according to the psychoanalytic model . |
| 12 | Amongst other things , the computer was used to display a conventional set of instructions that could equally well have been provided in a printed form . |
| 13 | Every order made in such a cause or matter by an English court , is an order in a criminal cause or matter , even though the order , taken by itself , is neutral in character and might equally have been made in a cause or matter which is not criminal . |
| 14 | The feasible political choices confronting Labour could doubtless have been handled in a way which would have produced greater benefit for working people , and lost Labour less active support . |
| 15 | I was treating her like some harem favourite and she was repaying me in kind , except that any harem inmate who behaved with Lotta 's indiscretion would long since have been tied in a sack and dropped in the Bosporus ! ’ |
| 16 | Ours was now a multiple reality and our structural ambivalence can be illustrated by one example when one of the squad created a blazer badge in heraldic style ( although we could never have been seen in a blazer at this time when faded denim was the order of the day ) . |