Example sentences of "[adv] have be [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tocqueville 's Democracy in America is , as has been noted , essentially a study of American society , and one commentator has even suggested that it might better have been called Equality in America . |
| 2 | A third , who seemed prematurely to have been celebrating Sunderland 's success , planted a spontaneous kiss on his cheek . |
| 3 | What hitherto had been integrated plants in countries like the UK , carrying out complete manufacturing processes , are closed down and rationalized in order to manufacture products more cheaply from parts manufactured by workers divided between a number of countries . |
| 4 | Not only is this virtually impossible ( and improbable ) in cases of injury — fatal or otherwise — to employees or the public , but in cases of financial irregularities it is always open for the suspect(s) to plead that it was not his intention to defraud shareholders , indeed even though he engaged in what appears to be financially irregular practices , his intention all along had been to improve shareholders ' financial interests , but unfortunately due to unforeseeable circumstances , matters went sour . |
| 5 | Next Saturday my Medau friend Camilla and I are each going to swim 100 lengths non-stop ( as the ‘ Medau Duo ’ ) in the national charity swimming marathon ( as you might guess , it 's called a ‘ swimathon ’ ) , so have been collecting sponsors , which is rather more arduous than doing the actual swimming . |
| 6 | No material was found , and the Home Office insisted that if it had been it would not have been made public . |
| 7 | Had the court been provided with the information that was necessary , he said , PW would not have been appointed receiver-manager because of ‘ the untenable conflict position ’ in which it had placed itself . |
| 8 | But without Violet Blake , this match would not have been taking place . |
| 9 | Technically , Harvard dealers should not have been selling stock to clients who had not dealt three times with the company , unless they had sent out written information about the stock . |
| 10 | The executive transporter bay was a chaos of foam and whirling shapes which might or might not have been armed troopers . |
| 11 | Last year the taxman pocketed 550 million from people who should not have been paying tax — or who paid too much . |
| 12 | Britain would now be in the fortunate position of having had , in 1991 , nothing worse than a shallow and short-lived recession , from which a smart recovery would already have been taking place for several quarters , with no balance of payments constraint and little rise in unemployment . |
| 13 | ‘ Though of course he might just have been making routine checks . |
| 14 | Independent British film makers from all over have been writing letters of complaint . |
| 15 | The tribunal said it appeared that Ms Oruene had brought the complaint in the mistaken but genuine belief that graduates of English or Scottish universities who did not have passes in the compulsory subjects set by the faculty would still have been granted exemptions from the exams . |
| 16 | The Bishop quotes , with approval , G. Bennett on spider webs : It is impossible for one who has watched the work for many hours to have any doubt that neither the present spiders of this species nor their ancestors were ever the architects of the web or that it could conceivably have been produced step by step through random variation ; it would be as absurd to suppose that the intricate and exact proportions of the Parthenon were produced by piling together bits of marble . |
| 17 | With a fit beginner and an obviously hard snow surface , an accomplished racer should sure have been teaching Annabel to use the ski edges throughout the turn . |
| 18 | If this were correct , Aldfrith would probably have been born c . |
| 19 | His preaching was scholarly and evangelical and he would probably have been elected Vice-President of the Conference but for the onset of ill-health . |
| 20 | He may also have been wearing glasses . |
| 21 | While Dostoevsky was interested in the noble Moor and the jealousy question , he will also have been pondering ghost-reasons for his own villain . |
| 22 | He says there must be a reinterpretation of the way polls are analysed and like some others , including Worcester and Moon , believes there may also have been sampling errors . |
| 23 | My only problem so far has been keeping track of who , exactly , in the Archives quotations is saying what . |
| 24 | Her most unusual assignment so far has been interviewing Daniel Ortega at a dinner party , Sandinista style , where she drank rum with the bodyguards and was persuaded to dance with Ortega . |
| 25 | It 's much like a DYPP , and should really have been called DXPP , but someone came up with the name Tech-Tech first ( on the other hand , just try to pronounce DXPP ! ) . |
| 26 | The daughter of an Oxfordshire couple murdered four years ago has been awarded compensation . |
| 27 | A major reason for surrogacy arrangements in Western countries today has been to allow men in heterosexual couples to continue their ’ bloodline ’ when their partners , the women , have fertility problems . |
| 28 | Well how do you feel I mean a lot of a lot if not all of your work here has been done face to face . |
| 29 | She might as well have been eating spam . |
| 30 | Okay people could well have been using savings . |