Example sentences of "have [been] [adj] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm the reason I 'm asking is because I suspect it would have been greater at the time I was talking about all the ago though . |
| 2 | Strip examination revealed that this was the result of slight corrosion on the contacts , and the evidence suggested that this may well have been present at the time of the accident . |
| 3 | ‘ She would have been fourteen at the time of the Opet festival . ’ |
| 4 | I have no idea how i it went around a up in the northern hemisphere , over Scandinavia , and Georgia 's in the south , so you 'd have think it 'd have been weak by the time it got down I 'm not a scientist , I have no idea what |
| 5 | ( One even refused to stand down although he would have been seventy-six at the time of the next election . ) |
| 6 | I must own that the possibility of taking matters further did cross my mind and infiltrated my uncensored dreams , but it would have been unwise at the time and later I was glad we had left things as they were . |
| 7 | Further along the village another house used to be the ‘ cookhouse ’ and game room for them — the meals must have been cold by the time they arrived at the table of Londesborough Lodge ! |