Example sentences of "[adv] have [been] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traditionally , the connection between the police and the party in power locally has been very close , and the susceptibility of the former to the wishes of the latter has been much greater than in Britain . |
| 2 | With the exception of the freak year 1981 the ratio since has been about two to one . |
| 3 | Wicked episodes were often brought to my attention , but nothing either then or since has been as evil as the man Beck . |
| 4 | The communitarian state would provide those resources to in , in , to do what perhaps has been traditionally seen as the impossible , but it will require extensive support . |
| 5 | Example run : The example below has been further expanded to include error trapping . |
| 6 | The figure facing the monster is also horned and is thrusting his spear into a snake-like head , three arms droop down having been similarly despatched . |
| 7 | With greater beauty , I would perhaps have been sooner there . |
| 8 | It would perhaps have been more accurate in the discussion to use terms such as load and extension . |
| 9 | It would perhaps have been entirely adequate if I had received it in any normal circumstances . |
| 10 | Productive regions of the world 's oceans today generate about 20–50 mg C cm , so the Hamersley Sea need only have been moderately productive to generate the iron deposits preserved there today . |
| 11 | One is that no actual endangerment is required : the explosion need only have been inherently likely to endanger life , and the offence is committed whether or not anyone 's life was put in danger . |
| 12 | It could only have been relatively cool gases that could initiate accretion processes . |
| 13 | And I can only have been about nine when a schoolfriend proudly showed snaps of her mother fancy-dressed as ‘ No-one loves a fairy when she 's 40 ’ . |
| 14 | Later , two men took me into a corner and fired questions at me for what seemed like ages , but can only have been about half an hour . |
| 15 | Aethelred 's parents had been married in 762 , so he will only have been about 11 when he became king on Alhred 's expulsion and those around him must have exercised real power . |
| 16 | But when I looked at the date , my father could only have been about twelve year old you see , when these letters were written so it must have been my grandfather writing to Coventry and Birmingham for parts for the penny farthing bicycles which he worked on . |
| 17 | It was about a year before we moved to Brisbane , so they must only have been about eight years old . |
| 18 | After what seem an eternity , but which in reality could only have been about fifteen minutes , the paramedics from the county ambulance service arrived , and under David 's supervision the serious business of trying to lift Len out began . |
| 19 | Politically , any alternative would obviously have been extremely difficult to implement while among the economists in the Economic Section the allure of Keynesian economics easily distracted attention from microeconomic problems and the need to understand how economic institutions actually worked . |
| 20 | Soviet communism would necessarily have been temporarily rejected in order to defend Republican France and ultimately to defeat fascism . |
| 21 | At the big bang itself , the universe is thought to have had zero size , and so to have been infinitely hot . |
| 22 | It was established that individual pathetic character once and forever by tying one end of his pocket handkerchief to a hook on , in the wall and attaching himself to the other to the performance , to , to the performance of this feat however the pocket handkerchief inside had been all he , he only cried bitterly all day and when the longest nights came on he spread his little hand before his eyes to shut out the darkness and crouching in the corner tried to sleep , everyone drawing himself closer and closer to the wall |
| 23 | Slowing him down had been merely the preparation for the real poisoned phial . |
| 24 | Away from the others , he thought his attempts to fit in had been rather embarrassing . |
| 25 | The hut she now lived in had been well built by a woodman more than three years ago . |
| 26 | And it is that point which has raised questions in the minds of some MPs who hitherto have been relatively happy with Clarke . |
| 27 | How long have been here ? |
| 28 | These prices for pre-match sales only have been specially approved by the Test and County Cricket Board , who have agreed to a reduction on normal prices . |
| 29 | West African currencies , because of their rigid link to the French franc , are tied through the European Monetary System to the German mark , so have been heavily — and damagingly — upvalued against the American dollar . |
| 30 | Undoubtedly the method works in Purdue , and reports are that its adoption elsewhere has been generally successful . |