Example sentences of "have be a mistake " in BNC.

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1 Even Sir John Stokes , the bristle-brushed old gent for whom ‘ the twentieth century has been a mistake ’ , sat in the Commons representing the Birmingham dormitories of Halesowen and Stourbridge , where the closest most of his supporters had come to a foxhunt was a roadside cocktail lounge called the Whip and Saddle .
2 It has been a mistake of many developments in MIS to concentrate on solutions in the form of computer packages such as Schools Information and Management Systems ( SIMS ) in the school sector or Further Education Management Information System ( FEMIS ) in the FE sector .
3 ‘ If people think there has been a mistake , they have a right to appeal , ’ Environment Secretary Michael Howard said yesterday .
4 ‘ If people think there has been a mistake , they can appeal , ’ said Environment Secretary Michael Howard yesterday .
5 The Reader is desired to take notice , that as , the Date of the License witnesses , this Booke , should have been Printed long agoe , and there has been a mistake in the bot-tome of the Title Page , where the Year 1680 has been put instead of the Year 1679. in which it was really Printed off , though not publickly expos 's to Sale , til the beginning of this Month of January .
6 Eventually , Ludovico said , ‘ It has been a mistake , no ?
7 If there has been a mistake , he will be given a rebate .
8 All this is important because of the argument that shock therapy has been a mistake .
9 Mr said , I advise people to check in case there has been a mistake .
10 ‘ Forgive me , Fu Jen , but there has been a mistake .
11 Erm , you ca n't help feeling that there has been a mistake .
12 When he was accused , quite erroneously , of siphoning money from school funds he honestly believed that everyone would realise that there 'd been a mistake . ’
13 However , I never tried to get professional help , and that may well have been a mistake .
14 He was beginning to feel that it may have been a mistake , it may have been wiser to have remained elsewhere .
15 Stephenson admitted that the appointment might have been a mistake .
16 ‘ It would have been a mistake to bring in consultants immediately .
17 Clough also revealed that he thought he had signed Welsh international striker Dean Saunders before his move to Liverpool — and admitted selling Teddy Sheringham to Tottenham may have been a mistake .
18 ‘ I pleaded with the officials that the test result must have been a mistake . ’
19 That would have been a mistake .
20 This , however , would have been a mistake as there were many quieter rewards : Richard Haslam on ‘ The patronage of repair : Palladio 's Villa Saraceno in its twentieth-century context ’ and Stephen Lloyd on ‘ Richard Cosway and the Prince of Wales ’ to name two , while Emma Barker 's ‘ Illegitimacy and the rights of the unmarried mother in eighteenth-century France ’ quickly dispelled any notions the audience might have had of topicality , and offered a reasoned discussion of nature versus civilisation in eighteenth-century literature and painting .
21 He thought now it might have been a mistake .
22 If I say it was wonderfully exciting , you will wonder when I am going to do it again , and if I say it was a mistake , which it was , you are going to ask me under what circumstances it might not have been a mistake . ’
23 My sister thought it must have been a mistake , and kept the pound notes in case he came back for them .
24 For example I 'd like to swim ( infinitive with to ) : I saw him go ( infinitive without to ) : : To have continued would have been a mistake ( perfect infinitive ) ; He wants to be told ( passive infinitive ) .
25 This might have been a mistake , he now reflected , as he seemed to have indigestion .
26 ‘ That would have been a mistake .
27 Officials think now that may have been a mistake .
28 I now realise this would have been a mistake .
29 The massive trend , from 1965 to 1980 , towards diversification is now largely seen to have been a mistake .
30 If it proves to have been a mistake this entrepreneur himself will be under market pressure to abandon this line of production .
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