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 | But these would have been mainly in the military zones , such as the example already noted of Hercules and Hesione at Chester . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Could n't possibly have been there in the old days . |
| 12 | Most may have been there in the pre-Norman period , although whether as fully developed villages or not will be discussed below . |