Example sentences of "have [be] [adj] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These may have been possible in the days of full staffing and adequate resources . |
| 2 | She may well have lived in her parents ' house before her enclosure : when she describes the circumstances of her visions in The Revelations of Divine Love , she says that there were a large number of people round her bed and that priests were able to come and go as they pleased , which would not always have been possible in an anchorage . |
| 3 | Any offer of help , even if presented as a humanitarian gesture , would have been controversial in the US and Israel , which still sees the PLO as a terrorist organisation . |
| 4 | Such looms may have been present in every household . |
| 5 | For example , we have the form of expression ‘ when I said ‘ Napoleon was crowned in 1804 ’ I meant the man who won the battle of Austerlitz' and we are inclined to interpret the use of the past tense ‘ meant ’ as meaning that the idea of Napoleon having won the battle of Austerlitz must have been present in the speaker 's mind when he said that Napoleon was crowned in 1804 . |
| 6 | Team Millar rider McWilliams , who is still looking for a 500 Grand Prix finish , had a constructive finish and felt he could have been higher in the table , but for the rain . |
| 7 | No one had wanted to believe that Paula 's beauty went right through her more than Sally did for she was a shining golden idol as well as a sister and it had been a shock to Sally when she had at last been forced to concede , in private at least , that the other girls might have been right in the accusations they made . |
| 8 | Yet he could not have been long in the water . |
| 9 | The time to consider whether one wishes to opt out and whether one was opposed to a certain system is always when a decision has been made , but I 'd have thought it would have been far in the interests of the people of Banbury and the children and parents of Banbury if they 'd taken full advantage of the discussion on the tertiary college and had made their opinions known , and in the light of the results coming out and say a satisfactory decision had arisen that was frankly the time to get into the business of opting out . |
| 10 | Prime Minister Schlüter called the December 1990 elections earlier than would normally have been necessary in an attempt to obtain a firm mandate for far-reaching economic reforms . |
| 11 | That recipe may have been appropriate in the past when personal consumption was largely met from the output of labour-intensive British industries . |
| 12 | He added , though , that there were no guidelines to cover the situation which had manifested itself in Orkney , and even if the council had formally adopted written guidelines , they would not have been appropriate in the circumstances . |
| 13 | Author co-citation analysis would not have been appropriate in the case of theses , but title-word co-citation could provide a useful tool for identifying specialist departments and multi-researcher programmes . |
| 14 | It appears to be even more prevalent in ‘ socialist ’ states than in ‘ capitalist ’ states : the compulsory movement to ujamaa villages in Tanzania in 1975 would have been impossible in a society which genuinely respected peasant opinion . |
| 15 | It seems most unlikely that the testator had any intention of this sort ; and it is pointless to assert that such a decision would have been impossible in a legacy , since the whole context — a disposition charged on a non-heir — is one in which a legacy could not have functioned . |
| 16 | Essentially he held to the line taken by the Ministry of Health in the 1930s : the school medical service was primarily educational , and had never been designed as a complete child health service , nor as an agency to relieve poverty as such — indeed , it operated within strict terms of reference set down by Parliament ; systematic medical inspection of evacuees would have been impossible in the conditions of panic and devastation forecast by all civil defence planners before the war ; many of the evacuees ' problems , such as bed-wetting , had cleared up quickly . |
| 17 | Elsewhere the errors were more elementary — during a scene which looked suspiciously like product placement for a Canadian lager there was a continuity error which would have been embarrassing in a home-movie . |
| 18 | For P , the weights have to be recalculated for each current year and , again , current patterns might have been unreasonable in the base year . |
| 19 | The striking head is difficult to parallel stylistically , and the teeth seem to have been cut with an abrasive wheel which would not have been available in the Americas before the Spanish conquest . |
| 20 | It should have been cooler in the hills , but if anything , Lindsey thought drowsily , the heat was becoming even more intense with barely a breeze to relieve it . |
| 21 | I would have thought it would have been better in the introduction rather as part of the minutes , would you not have thought so ? |
| 22 | This contrast may be more apparent than real , however , for new technologies of birth and reproduction may alter the biologically given so as to make possible a changed perspective that would have been inconceivable in the past . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , detectives hunting the killer of a man gunned down outside his home in Lambhill last week say they believe the victim may have been involved in a battle to control the area 's drugs supply . |
| 24 | Harney 's widow , when she emerged , insisted that others must have been involved in a conspiracy . |
| 25 | Limerick being warned not to drink their tapwater , as local authority officials worried that cyanide might have been involved in the spillage . |
| 26 | Former Mossad colleagues have insisted hotly that Harari could not have been involved in the drugs trade , but he is clearly a hard man to defend . |
| 27 | Besides creating the conditions for success as the examination approaches , the employer should also have been involved in the candidate 's preparation from the start of the training contract . |
| 28 | Mathematical ideas of space and shape and comparisons will have been involved in the making and the teacher may learn much from observation . |
| 29 | Burgundians may have been involved in the crossing of the Rhine in 406 . |
| 30 | Thomas Hardy was employed by both architects and may have been involved in the work . |