Example sentences of "[adv] have [been] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The issue on CD of these recordings which one tended lovingly on LP for so long has been one of the joys of my collection . |
| 2 | The really phenomenal success of these materials during the last thirty years or so has been due to the combination of cheap and rapid mass-production with adequate toughness — added of course to chemical inertness , lightweight and bright and cheerful , not to say garish , colours . |
| 3 | They should perhaps have been higher on the agenda than appears to have been the case . |
| 4 | The creoles ' desire for office , economic freedom , and free trade could never perhaps have been satisfied within the static Spanish theory of imperialism . |
| 5 | It may perhaps have been valid in the past to dichotomize theoretical stances into endogenous ( formulated in terms of what is natural to humans ) and exogenous ( formulated in terms of sociocultural factors ) ( Heelas 1983 ) ; but many biologists today think that there is a built-in capacity for change through learning capable of giving directive impulses for change . |
| 6 | He confessed that he might inadvertently have been guilty of the second on occasion and freely admitted to taking gifts of the third kind , which he regarded as entirely permissible . |
| 7 | As a matter of interest , I once met a forensic scientist fortunate enough to have been present during a research experiment in which a mummy was unwrapped . |
| 8 | Slave owners who became Christians revolutionised their treatment of slaves , giving to them the justice and the fair treatment that hitherto had been unknown in the ancient world . |
| 9 | The report added that the Waddington screen controllers involved were ‘ not to undertake screening duties until their competence to do so had been subject to a further check ’ . |
| 10 | At the time of the outbreak of unrest Long had been one of the most outspoken critics of corruption among politicians and officials . |
| 11 | We will be recording er , talking to individual groups that are interested in , in er expressing their views , particularly groups that perhaps have been involved with the protest , and er are you know , not happy with , with some aspects of the motorway . |
| 12 | Exceptional in its moderacy , the report discounted the fear of imitative crime , arguing that ‘ it certainly has not been proved that the increase in juvenile crime generally has been consequent on the cinema ’ . |
| 13 | ALTHOUGH the bond market generally has been yo-yoing with the fortunes of the Gulf war , one issue is selling like hot bagels . |
| 14 | Both establishments had open fronts so that conditions for employees could not have been pleasant during the winter months . |
| 15 | Yet he could not have been long in the water . |
| 16 | In earlier days , even that formality might not have been necessary for a contract . |
| 17 | He may not have been much of a fancy cook , but Kunio had a very keen brain and a highly intelligent outlook on life . |
| 18 | Ben may not have been much of a theatre-goer , but he would no doubt have been fascinated by one unexpected visit in the June of 1801 : |
| 19 | Such an expedition takes time to mount , and there can not have been much of a gap between the Egyptian failure and the decision ( ? 453/2 ) to return to Cyprus . |
| 20 | However , this may not have been much of a choice . |
| 21 | ‘ There could not have been much of a selection this time , then . |
| 22 | She was expected to knock and enter the insured person 's house without waiting for a reply , something that would not have been possible at the door of a middle class household . |
| 23 | It would not have been possible for the long progression towards the perfect physical being , to have ever occurred at all , if it were encumbered by the constraints of compassion , an emotion which , by the very nature of evolution was completely non-existent before the dawn of civilisation . |
| 24 | It would not have been possible for the Government of 1945-51 to get through the legislation if they had faced the delaying tactics that have characterised the progress of Bills in the past 11 to 12 years . |
| 25 | Suffice it to say that I find that had those alterations not been carried out when they were , it would not have been possible for the plaintiff to be discharged from Hunstead Park in May of nineteen ninety since her home would not have been suitable for her . |
| 26 | The massive transportation of goods by air would not have been possible without a faster method of documenting shipments . |
| 27 | Films like Ken Russell 's The Devils ( 1971 ) , with its hysteria and erotic frenzies , or Nic Roeg 's Do n't Look Now ( 1973 ) would not have been possible without the developments in Gothic instigated at Hammer 's Bray Studios ( although Roeg had also worked , as a cameraman , on Roger Corman 's The Masque of the Red Death ( 1964 ) ) . |
| 28 | Indeed , their first trip to Scotland since 1981 would not have been possible without the assistance of four British-based companies trading in Eastern Europe who at the eleventh hour put up a total of £10,000 . |
| 29 | Mr Bond 's business rise would not have been possible without the return of laissez-faire ; the emergence of deregulation ; the ascent of the mega-merger and the credit boom centred on the Anglo economies of Australia , the United States and Britain . |
| 30 | She is quick to point out that this would not have been possible without the help of all the artistes and musicians on the various shows . |