Example sentences of "[adv] have be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to now all has been plain sailing but at the third row you have a straight arrow indicating to select needles again and transfer with the lace carriage and you have only just transferred stitches the other way without working two knit rows between . |
| 2 | It can only have been back projection , travelling matte or some combination of the two . ) |
| 3 | Even though it seems only to have been conditional independence the terms were so alarming to General Valluy that he flew back to Paris to warn the French Government and the outcome was a special cabinet meeting at which hardly anyone supported the Bollaert initiative . |
| 4 | It is thus important to use language which reflects a real change of attitude to people who for so long have been unwilling recipients of services designed largely for society 's comfort and not theirs . |
| 5 | It could just have been bad luck . ’ |
| 6 | Not only was it the first death , but it could easily have been little Enoch , or Jane . |
| 7 | In the event it was Alaska which became the 49th State of the Union ( in 1959 ) but it could easily have been Coca-Colonial Britain . |
| 8 | The nature of black holes makes them difficult to detect ; all we may ever have is indirect evidence for their existence . |
| 9 | By that time , of course , he would already have effected a great many ministerial and policy changes , but there would still have been sufficient sense of novelty about everything he touched to have ensured his eventual victory at the polls . |
| 10 | Nuadu glanced at this and saw that there might once have been verdant greenery , perhaps even a small forest . |
| 11 | Charlie stared out at the open fields that must once have been productive farmland . |
| 12 | Some gorges may once have been underground caverns , the roofs of which have collapsed . |
| 13 | The statues ( a late example , fig. 72 ) seem always to have been undifferentiated kouroi or korai , but the stelai , perhaps because low relief belongs essentially to narrative art , show the dead man bearded or beardless and often as warrior or athlete . |
| 14 | There always had been ambivalent feelings between father and oldest son . |
| 15 | The sample was made up of people whom they judged would probably have been long-stay residents of Powick if that option had continued to be available . |
| 16 | There may also have been certain conditions of the advance ( eg that a woodworm infestation shall be treated before completion , that certain repairs shall have been carried out or a deduction made from the mortgage loan until they have been ) . |
| 17 | There may also have been other reasons why he decided to move . |
| 18 | However , there may also have been English precedent and inspiration for the adoption of a second crown — notably in Edgar 's second , " imperial " , coronation at Bath in 973 . |
| 19 | Cynics also believed he was taking a great risk when he cast Jason Donovan and Phillip Schofield in Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , but both have been great successes . |
| 20 | Joanne really has been hard work , right from the day she was born . |
| 21 | But the steps taken so far have been tentative ones , forced by bitter economic realities . |
| 22 | Dr Robert Eisenman , whom we cited earlier , believes there may well have been close links between Simeon 's family and the descendants of Jesus 's — if , indeed , they were not one and the same . |
| 23 | However , there may well have been other pressures on working class men as individuals , causing them to oppose the work of their wives . |
| 24 | The crucial importance of the functions of convening and chairing meetings seems to have been overlooked by those who set it up , or else these duties were delegated to people who did their best in adverse circumstances but who may well have been inappropriate choices . |
| 25 | It may well have been local brigands , but we 've found no clues . ’ |
| 26 | Imbeciles may well have been adult persons , if their disability were due to accident or disease . |
| 27 | Though had Simon produced such a ringing anti-apartheid statement as this there would surely have been little grounds for complaint about his Graceland trip . |
| 28 | Killy had been triple gold medallist four years previously at Grenoble . |
| 29 | Although the cultural traditions and education and social systems in OECD member countries vary there has been wide agreement about the importance of transition and the nature of the process . |
| 30 | As you will be aware there has been extensive discussions with NALGO in connection with the arrangements for the necessary Council Tax introduction . |