Example sentences of "[adv] have [be] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he put it to one of his regional officials : " If Joan of Arc had married and had children , she would not have been Joan of Arc any more . " |
| 2 | There may or may not have been divisions of opinion in the ranks of the progressive Alliance , but the Conservatives were all too evidently engaged in fratricidal strife . |
| 3 | Not only is there no suggestion in the biographical sources or in documents that Fahreddin Acemi ever held a kadilik , but there is also positive evidence that for long periods in his Muftilik he could not have been kadi of Edirne , at least , since someone else was . |
| 4 | Between then and now there would not have been time for Newley to drive down to Miller 's End , walk to the gazebo , get himself killed and become as cold as he was . |
| 5 | There was the dark-eyed , slant-featured look of the ancient lost Royal Houses of Ireland in several of them , the glossy hair that might easily have been fur in others . |
| 6 | None of these people should ever have been prisoners of conscience . |
| 7 | So I walked beneath the trees and found just under my feet pieces of old concrete and what might once have been bits of wall . |
| 8 | The daring actions of slaters , copper and lead and iron miners were described , bringing to life those now deserted valleys throughout the centre of the area which must once have been hives of industry . |
| 9 | Funnily enough , then , but for 296 or so bigoted votes , the Rt Hon RD Kernohan MP might now have been Secretary of State . |
| 10 | The Collector had shown such enthusiasm for its hollow wonders that he himself had been tempted and misled ; he had allowed his own small stirrings of doubt , which he recognized now to have been stirrings of conscience , to be smothered . |
| 11 | So , in their capacity as workers in those factories they were not Co-operators at all , though they may very well have been members of consumers , co-operative societies owning an interest in those factories . |
| 12 | Had Mountbatten been lambasting the Arabs , there might well have been grounds for constraint . |
| 13 | He says there 've been messages of support coming in . |
| 14 | If , however , the church has not met mid-week and if , in addition , since their previous gatherings there have been difficulties of relationship , things may take longer . |
| 15 | In the run up to todays budget meeting there have been protests by parents and teachers worried that education , as the authorities biggest spender , will bear the brunt of the cuts . |
| 16 | I I 'm very grateful to the Secretary of State , erm is he aware that increasingly over this winter there have been examples of homes for the elderly and particularly nursing homes in the private sector without casting a valued judgement on the role of the private sector , er homes that are finding difficulty in the filling the beds because of policy that is being pursued in care in the community . |
| 17 | But the years since then have been ones of decline for Yorkshire , mainly , many observers of the game believe , because of the white rose county 's obstinate refusal , until last year , to move with the times and have an overseas star player in the side . |
| 18 | In southern California , where only 6% of travel to work is by public transport , most users would otherwise have been passengers in cars , not drivers . |
| 19 | His statement continued : ‘ Caldaire appreciates that monetary problems and not bloody-mindedness are the cause of the problem , but financial hardship never has been justification for non-payment of debt . |
| 20 | Peter Chester informed the same Committee that ‘ there certainly have been changes in knowledge . |