Example sentences of "have [been] [vb pp] a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that means this hay meadow which would normally have been cut a month ago is still standing to let wildflowers seed and fledgling birds fly . |
| 2 | Pressure of numbers impinges on every facet of the prison system , and in some institutions has resulted in overcrowded conditions that would not have been tolerated a century earlier . |
| 3 | Cessation of hostilities reduced its political weight , but so effective had it been in the 1918 election and so important was the ex-servicemen 's vote , that it could have been played a while longer . |
| 4 | ‘ Things might have been handled a bit better — but it 's between him and the team . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Which is what should have been done a week since . ’ |
| 6 | She must have been given a lift home from school with someone 's dad , because there were two other girls in the car in green uniforms . |
| 7 | That might have been written a week ago following the extraordinary dispute over a young girl 's ear . |
| 8 | The latter view might have been applauded a year previously : after Tiananmen , it sounded merely cynical . |
| 9 | Judging from the number of Londoners who ended by having to pay more than they were initially assessed for , this refrain could have been sung a bit too often to be convincing . |
| 10 | The discovery should have been predicted a decade earlier by Einstein . |
| 11 | ‘ They should all have been delivered a week ago , ’ Stephen commented , shrugging his shoulders and adding with a wry smile , ‘ Welcome to de West Indies , man . ’ |
| 12 | Although the SSC , like most things , could probably have been designed a bit better and made to cost a bit less , physics dictates its overall scale . |
| 13 | Can I just mention that the reason why some of the older properties in this village has steeper pitched roofs is not because they 're pantiled now , because originally they were erm , thatched , and the thatch needs a very steep pitch and particularly when there 's a erm a gable end higher than the pantiles , it 's where there was a thatched roof originally , but most of the older properties in this village are only one room wide , so you ca n't get a very big roof on , no matter how steep it is , the proposed houses here are in fact virtually sort of two rooms wide are n't they , so that means they are wide at the eves , I I would personally have thought that erm they could have been pitched a bit less . |