Example sentences of "[adv] have been in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her young men hitherto had been in the City , or in advertising , chartered accountancy , or even television . |
| 2 | On the other hand , it is conceivable that he would not have been in a position to appreciate the differences very clearly . |
| 3 | Since Soissons was part of Belgica Secunda it is argued that Clovis could not have been in a position to claim his father 's authority over that province until Syagrius and his kingdom had been destroyed . |
| 4 | I must confess , my dear Fanny ( his sister ) , that I found your judgement of him was inadequate ; perhaps , too , he may not have been in the mood for playing when you heard him , which is probably often the case ; but I was again enchanted by his playing , and I am convinced that if you , and Father too , had heard some of his best things in the way he played them to me , you would say the same . |
| 5 | Save for this fluke I could not have been in the position in which I now found myself . |
| 6 | He said the entrance should not have been in the centre , but a little door should have been built at one side . |
| 7 | The only other proviso is that the creation of the second spreadsheet program should not have been in the contemplation of the licensed user when decompiling the original program , otherwise the permitted objective of decompilation might be compromised . |
| 8 | McCallan said : ‘ I may not have been in the game a lot until I got my goal , but that made it up for it . ’ |
| 9 | Fortunately the incident took place during the school holidays , otherwise I would not have been in the garden later in the morning , when a cock started crowing . |
| 10 | Catherine was so quiet that she might as well not have been in the room and it occurred to him that he must train her to make some unobtrusive signal to him when she thought he was missing something . |
| 11 | Rhodri was still muttering , unwilling to give up his customary pessimism , but he might as well not have been in the room with them , he counted for so little at this moment . |
| 12 | It is true that his young contemporaries , like Edmond Burke and Oliver Goldsmith and indeed later generations of great Irish writers like Maria Edgeworth , Oscar Wilde , Dion Boucicault , W. B. Yeats and George Bernard Shaw , may not have been in the habit of regularly frequenting pubs . |
| 13 | I sometimes think they have a neurosis about not having been in the blitz . ’ |
| 14 | Coventry , however , claim the queues were caused by late-arriving supporters , and that there is no way Clarkson can have arrived at 2.15 and not have been in the ground by 3.10 . |
| 15 | ‘ He always has been in the past , so the Abwehr have found . |
| 16 | He told delegates he believed the case for strong trade unions was as compelling now as it was when the TUC first met 125 years ago , ‘ or ever has been in the history of our country . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Gray would still have been in a job if we had won at Torquay , ’ said Corden , ‘ but it was a diabolical performance and we felt something had to be done . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Gray would still have been in a job if Darlington had won at Torquay . ’ |
| 19 | Jesus would hardly have been in a position to carry out this miracle of healing . |
| 20 | There is no record of a dram-bottle from Darwin ever having been in the family ; there is , however , a beautiful silver compass inscribed ‘ Mr. Gould from C. Darwin Esq ’ . |
| 21 | It is not stated by the originator as to the exact site of the primary tumour from which MKN45 and MKN45G were derived but because of the gastrin secretory nature of MKN45G it could possibly have been in the antrum . |
| 22 | He was a trusted friend and one of the few people ever to have been in the Prince 's employ who spoke frankly to him , and when asked would give an honest , if sometimes unwelcome , opinion . |
| 23 | Even 18 months ago , the material would most probably have been in the form of near-illegible carbon copies of an original laboriously produced on a manual typewriter — devices which until recently had to be registered with the authorities . |
| 24 | ‘ Body Number One , the first buried , turns out to have been in a railway accident — the one at London Bridge , when he was four . |
| 25 | Emily Faithfull herself rather naively replied to one questioner : Suppose a printer receives from 30s to 36s a week and suppose his wages were reduced 10s per week , and his daughters who before had been in no employment receive each 10s , 12s or 15s … |
| 26 | He played that aspect of himself which could well have been in a war — after all he had trained long enough for it — and the result was the sort of performance he was to deliver several times in his film career and none the worse for that : professional , convincing . |
| 27 | They may well have been in the right : the tendency of some Merovingians to take and discard wives at will , that is to practise serial monogamy , meant that there was no clearly defined family tree . |
| 28 | It might well have been in the mind of the Cloud-author when he appealed to his disciple as a weary wretch , sleeping in sloth , and deaf to the calling of the disturbingly dynamic love of God . |
| 29 | This will usually be someone who has relatively little experience as an account executive ( but may well have been in the agency for some time , as a progress controller or planner , for example ) . |
| 30 | By rights he should n't have been in the race at all . |