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

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1 It is recognised however that some reference to a version may be worthwhile , in that the producer of a module may well have been using a specific version of a referenced module during initial design .
2 He may have been conducting a formal press conference in very informal dress at a most abnormal time .
3 But he might have been speaking a foreign language .
4 Moreover , it also allowed entry into the policewomen 's world , which , using van Maanen 's logic , would have been denied a male field-worker ( for the difficulties in establishing rapport experienced by a male researcher on the police see Warren and Rasmussen 1977 : 358 ) .
5 Indeed , for all that is known to the contrary , Ecgfrith may have been facing a Pictish-Scottish alliance in 685 .
6 But one of the offices in the area must have been undergoing a thorough make-over , because along with the garbage and a tangled mess of strip aluminium and ceiling tiles he found a number of office throwouts that included a desk lamp with about five yards of trailing flex .
7 ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago .
8 Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension .
9 I BELIEVE Dr Cox should have been given a long jail sentence .
10 If I 'd known that I would have been given a long lecture at the end of the day , well … ’
11 If somehow she could have been given a meagre share in their relationship , if one or the other had treated her as a confidante , it might have been more bearable .
12 I do n't think she should have been given a custodial sentence , but a community service to make her think about what she 's done .
13 I knew , of course , that one or other of the suore kept a constant eye on how we behaved , and I knew too that had they noticed anything ‘ unusual ’ I would have been given a severe talking-to and told not to come back .
14 YOUR TASK : often you will have been given an explicit purpose for making notes at the outset .
15 A police spokesman said it appeared Tony could have been struck a glancing blow by the wing mirror of a blue Transit-type van .
16 But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style .
17 But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style .
18 Many will have been wearing a special costume for their childhood which has given them particular concealment .
19 He may have been wearing a green bomber jacket .
20 ‘ The evidence extends only as far as the lower scapula , does it not ’ He could have been wearing an off-the-shoulder toga . ’
21 It is a tenable hypothesis that Bayezid II did indeed set a pattern and that many of the later foundations involving a joint muderris/muftilik were made simply in imitation of his precedent , though their effect might have been to create an official muftilik where none had existed before or to upgrade an existing muftilik ( which latter may well have been Bayezid II's intention in Amasya and Istanbul ) .
22 By killing Marius then , Nigel would have been sacrificing a great deal of money .
23 Others may have been maintaining a stressful lifestyle for years , always rushing onwards , filling their time with one impossible task after the next .
24 We might even have had a decent election and the country might have been saved a good deal earlier , but everyone knows that that is how we got here .
25 In not taking this step seven years or five years ago , this country could have been saved a great deal of suffering .
26 ‘ Making Their Mark ’ could equally well have been called a mixed exhibition ; but this is a term more often used for a show put on by an exhibiting society , that type of artists ' organisation whose importance in Europe was created by the middle classes , who sought in the eighteenth century to buy pictures rather than give commissions , as aristocratic patrons had been accustomed to do .
27 Maidstone 's face displayed what could almost have been called a mischievous grin .
28 Furious Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson argued it should have been called an incomplete pass and made his point forcibly after the Redskins ' 20-17 victory .
29 NETRHA officers felt vulnerable on the point that the priority groups should have been getting an increased share of the regional budget .
30 Bowe might just have been demonstrating an innate sense of psychological testing techniques .
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