Example sentences of "[adv] have [be] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the plaintiff had not paid he would not only have been subject to legal proceedings for recovery of the tax but would have been liable to forfeiture of his business until it had been paid . |
| 2 | As will be seen in Chapter 7 , this itself could only have been due to current Roman catholic social teaching on mixed marriage . |
| 3 | Given the Committee 's proposals on buggery , this would have meant that a man who procured a woman 's submission to anal intercourse by threats other than of violence would not necessarily have been guilty of any offence . |
| 4 | However , they would not necessarily have been conscious of this if they were in an ordinary environment with normal background sounds . |
| 5 | He had broken his leg some time before and so had been unfit for active service till then . |
| 6 | In an attempt to find the causes for their disappointment many who would normally have been content with everyday party politics turned to more radical solutions . |
| 7 | The idea that science teaching can be more effective if you start by eliciting the ideas which children already have was new to many of the teachers participating in the SPACE Project . |
| 8 | Mehmed el-Fenari ; and he not unnaturally concludes that Molla Fenari must still have been alive at that date . |
| 9 | The IPG identified additional work to be done before the changeover : claimants may still have been entitled to special payments before they were abolished or entitled to benefits that they were not claiming that would affect the amount of transitional payments they would receive on transfer to the new system . |
| 10 | Carew 's bleak diagnosis can hardly have been uninfluenced by several decades of mounting concern at the impermanence of non-agricultural employment compared with the stability of farmers fully occupied tending their land , and men continuously employed as servants in husbandry engaged for a year at a time . |
| 11 | Such people would always have been willing to subordinate their political action to unionist unity , if it could be recreated on a sound basis . |
| 12 | Although the chemistry of modern Earth-bound life is all carbon-chemistry , this may not be true all over the universe , and it may not always have been true on this Earth . |
| 13 | What must always have been clear to perceptive teachers , and what is now being documented in some detail in research , is that racism and sexism are experienced in numerous different ways , depending upon the groups concerned and the educational context . |
| 14 | Er my Lord er the second observation I make about erm Mr opinion erm and the facts upon which it is based is that his opinion is hotly disputed er , not least because of what it would be submitted is the highly speculative nature of this enterprise er , when you are being asked to consider with the benefit of hindsight , whether or not a business entered into some eighty years ago , was likely to have failed and er it is also an exercise which in my submission is entirely irrelevant if your Lordship would find the basis of compensation which I contend for is the one because the logic of not having to become involved in any investigation of whether or not this business would probably have been unsuccessful in any event . |
| 15 | Labour shortage could also have been relieved by longer hours of work . |
| 16 | If a property is insufficiently furnished for full habitation , it may also have been unoccupied for some length of time . |
| 17 | This problem must also have been worse for some people because , even though I 'm only 16 , I am 5ft 8ins . |
| 18 | That much must also have been clear to contemporary foreign observers . |
| 19 | But what is important here is that , just as present-day language states are normally heterogeneous , so historical language states must also have been heterogeneous in similar ways ; hence , unilinear historical descriptions of single varieties ( such as ‘ standard ’ English ) can not be adequate descriptions of the history of a language . |
| 20 | A little-known Darlington firm might also have been active in this early phase . |
| 21 | Many of those who previously would also have been entitled to two hours of free legal advice and assistance under the green form scheme , however , will now have to pay for it . |
| 22 | Research so far has been concerned with one segment of A , catalogue use . |
| 23 | A lot of our discussion so far has been concerned with this kind of " saying " , but I have purposely avoided introducing any of the technical jargon of semiotics ( the theory of signs ) and this is now leading me into difficulty because the ordinary use of words in social anthropological discourse is crudely imprecise . |
| 24 | The life of the farming families here has been harsh for hundreds of years but this harshness has been intensified by the laws on land inheritance and land revenue introduced by the British , which have already been described . |
| 25 | She may well have been right about this . |
| 26 | Nicholas 's personal judgement may well have been crucial in blocking negotiations with the Kadets in the fluid situation that prevailed in the first half of 1906 . |
| 27 | For Gordon might well have been one of this newspaper 's very first journalists . |
| 28 | The patients ' symptoms of bladder outflow obstruction may well have been due to benign prostatic hypertrophy and the coexistent prostatic cancer may have been an incidental finding . |
| 29 | Ely , for example , had already received the bulk of the lands it held in 1086 , and the same may well have been true of other foundations such as Glastonbury , Abingdon and the Old and New Minsters in Winchester . |
| 30 | The Ariadne carried an immense and , to the uninitiated , quite bewildering variety of looking and listening instruments that may well have been unmatched by any naval ship afloat . |