Example sentences of "have been [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Otago method may have been slightly below the classical tackling methods of attack , especially from first-phase , but Mains developed a special skill that was to have all his forwards , bit men and small , all very mobile and skilled at handling , retaining or winning the ball on the ground . |
| 2 | This is because all the variation margin payments due will have been up to the penultimate trading day . |
| 3 | ‘ You must have been up with the famous Ord Gaunt ? ’ says the man whose name Howard did n't quite catch , and the dense Middle English blackletter in which the words are uttered exactly matches their resonant profundity . |
| 4 | He 's as sane as you or I. He 's a romantic at heart , a born adventurer ; a couple of hundred years ago and he 'd have been somewhere on the other side of the world building up the odd empire . ’ |
| 5 | I suspect , though , there can be no doubt about which side she would have been on in the public debate about fox-hunting prompted by last week 's Private Member 's Bill . |
| 6 | Yet she would have been upstairs with the old man before I was out of the moonlit yard . |
| 7 | Could they have been in with the real Communist underground ? ’ |
| 8 | But it would be a superficial reading of club ideology to view the movement simply in terms of its ‘ rescue ’ work , for though this may have been so in the early days , it was never the sole aim which would imply a passivity hardly reconcilable with the ambitions of the founders of clubs , or with that of the missions and settlement houses . |
| 9 | The stair-well in this wing indicates an upper storey which presumably would have been much on the same plan . |
| 10 | In the light of this fact it seems possible to suggest that those authors who subscribe to the former view do so because in later times it would have been only in the rarest of circumstances that one would have held the kadilik after the kazaskerlik . |
| 11 | But these would have been mainly in the military zones , such as the example already noted of Hercules and Hesione at Chester . |
| 12 | Since I 've understood what management was about — I suppose that must have been back in the early 1950s — I 've had the philosophy that if I go into a job I must do it better than the bloke who 's been doing it before me . |
| 13 | The simple fact of the matter is that we should never have been there in the first place . |
| 14 | I know , you would n't have been there in the first place . |
| 15 | My thoughts the leaf stem should never have been there in the first place it was a waste of money . |
| 16 | Of course , if I 'd really had any sense I would n't have been there in the first place . |
| 17 | Well it is three hundred and twenty thousand pound that they 're paying to this person that should not have been there in the first place , he walked on there , he built places there without planning permission and I think if the council had played their cards right , they could have got him off without paying out this three hundred twenty thousand pound . |
| 18 | Could n't possibly have been there in the old days . |
| 19 | Most may have been there in the pre-Norman period , although whether as fully developed villages or not will be discussed below . |