Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year .
2 A question that puzzled some followers of Zarathustra in later times was that , if Ohrmazd was all-powerful and so destined to overthrow Ahriman , why did this not happen immediately , so that the world would have been spared all the suffering caused by the conflict between them ?
3 Better practice would have been to discharge such a patient on a Monday and monitor her progress daily , to forestall a weekend crisis .
4 If however , there was no open way remaining , then the rising main must have been brought all the way up to the top of the shaft .
5 Could we have been hoodwinked all the way ?
6 He should have been doing this a year or two ago , in the hope that extra jobs would have been created before now .
7 He was dead to the world , so deeply asleep that she wondered what on earth he could have been doing half the night .
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