Example sentences of "have been [adv] [adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I THINK I must have been slightly mad for most of my life . |
| 2 | Second , the existing practice of the revenue under the pre-1976 law was not to tax benefits in kind on the average cost basis and those who were asking questions on behalf of their constituents would have been well aware of this fact . |
| 3 | My dad was a mason — I reckon he 'd have been right interested in these bricks . |
| 4 | Because multiple exemplars of each junction have been used in the previous studies this information would have been nearly identical in all six exemplars of each junction . |
| 5 | Her role must have been curiously akin to that of the executive businesswoman today , exercising the skills of management and delegation . |
| 6 | They must have been easily satisfied in those days , I should think . ’ |
| 7 | Yes , Joe must have been desperately lonely at that time , because he asked us to dinner the following evening at Chez Victor 's , one of his favourite restaurants . |
| 8 | Since then , the mill ( which is not open to the public ) has been visited by a large number of interested bodies , all of whom must have been greatly impressed with this tale of hard work , expense and perseverence . |
| 9 | Few , however , will have been as well-prepared for this as Don Cruickshank , the ; new director-general of the telecommunications regulator , Oftel , who has come to the post after three years as the first-ever chief executive of the National Health Service in Scotland where public controversy , as he put it , ‘ is part of the job ’ . |
| 10 | These differing responses , the fundamental cause of most of the wars of history , were not necessarily taken with a knowledge of the effect that they would ultimately have , for at the relevant time the choice would not have been as clear to those making them , as it would be to minds educated to standards prevailing centuries later . |
| 11 | The schools which would have resulted had its recommendations been fully implemented would have been noticeably different from those found in most other developed nations . |
| 12 | The establishment of a welfare state and the state purchase of major industries would have been almost impossible in many other years of the twentieth century for they would have precipitated a sterling crisis as bankers and firms switched their assets out of sterling and into foreign currencies . |
| 13 | Two crews that would have been especially grateful for this kind of compensation were Dennis Arlett and Patricial Lagesse whose accumulated woes would not let them pass Gao while , even more heart-rending was the final submission of the chassis previously held together by Jean-Christophe Savzey and Claire de Valbray — an agonizing 50km from the finish . |
| 14 | It must have been especially significant to those who had entered the D & AD direct mail section , in which silver pencils have been notoriously few . |
| 15 | It seems strange now , fifteen years on , that I should have been so conscious of this . |
| 16 | There were limits to the concentration of troops because of transportation , food supplies , and manoeuvring on the battlefield which must have been intuitively evident to any ancient general . |
| 17 | Chris , Chris , you know my friend , and Chris must have been quite new at this , you know that song that like when the double bass and then |
| 18 | Now one hundred and nineteen for four , Tufnell bowls this one , forward goes and the ball trickles up towards and another maiden over so now they 've had sixteen overs , ten maidens for seventeen and er I think in the old days you would have been quite proud of those figures erm Victor . |
| 19 | You implied erm that many of the women who were n't really aware politically in in fact may have been quite restrained in that sense |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd have been quite happy with that . ’ |
| 21 | Although insufficient to provide the full service , these bogie cars were worked hard on the main line and sometimes worked to Thornton Heath but never to Addiscombe or Penge , where they might have been too long for some of the passing loops on these lines . |
| 22 | Undoubtedly yes , I do n't think he would have been too happy with any threat to English liberty . |
| 23 | She must have been too busy after that . |
| 24 | Well there were the jobs tha that I mentioned really , production manager or assistant director and now he would have been quite happy I know to have done those , because I remember talking about it you know er and he would have been very good at either of them , but erm er he he did n't get well he was a slightly abrasive man , he he he his erm I I think in a way erm he was a director who could who was not really a very good film director , he he could get things done very quickly and that 's why he worked for bash , bash , bash getting through everything quickly . |
| 25 | This was not a very positive thing to say because Ralph lost some morale which could have been very dangerous at such an early stage . |
| 26 | The limestone seems to be exactly the same as that at the head of the pass , so the seas in which it was laid down must surely have been very similar to those that produced fossiliferous rocks . |
| 27 | Even as he charmed Cagney burnt up a nervous restlessness in a way that would have been very familiar to many of his fans . |
| 28 | Bill would have been very proud of that moment . ’ |
| 29 | The Corresponding Members also included a German , an Italian and , more interestingly , an Indian Mahadeva Vishnu Kane , BA , of Bombay , whose religious background must have been very different from that of the earnest doubters of Cambridge . |
| 30 | Life must have been very hard for many of these poor women . ’ |