Example sentences of "[vb mod] have be at [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He should have been at least booked in the first half , for a nasty and ‘ professional ’ foul . |
| 2 | However , Honderich himself throws up difficulties with regard to his third point , in that Conservatism must have been at least partly responsible for the ‘ decent ’ society he found when he arrived in Britain thirty years ago . |
| 3 | The image omitted almost constant service to the Sanusis ; it also omitted what must have been at least intermittent contact with the Turks . |
| 4 | We had deduced there must have been at least four : . |
| 5 | There must have been at least 30 people at the summit that day , and at the sound of plastic and thin glass striking skull through wool , every head turned to see what would happen next . |
| 6 | The letters must have been at least two feet in height and to do this job from a ladder , with only a young apprentice to hold it steady was quite a feat . |
| 7 | The alternative voting system at least possesses the virtue of requiring that if such policies are to be persisted in , the doctrine in which they are grounded must have been at least minimally acceptable to , if not the first choice of , a majority of voters . |
| 8 | And at the end of it , after eating what must have been at least half-a-dozen scrambled eggs , plus bacon , sausages and several buns , the couple got up to reload their plates … |
| 9 | Theo 's fears that his brother was on a self-destructive course must have been at least partly eased by this letter . |
| 10 | A magazine rack overflowed with rolled newspapers : they had obviously arrived by post , but many were unopened , as though Reid had n't had time to catch up with news that must have been at least a month old . |
| 11 | There must have been at least twenty cavalrymen rowelling their horses down the cart track . |
| 12 | I could n't see much this afternoon , but there must have been at least one whole corps on that road . |
| 13 | The damn thing must have been at least two feet long . |
| 14 | He gazed at her without speaking for what must have been at least a minute . |
| 15 | At its height his income from land must have been at least £200 per annum . |
| 16 | For everyone who lost his faith , there must have been at least another who went to outcast London or to darkest Africa to convert the faint and hungry heathen ; there was a great deal of Christian confidence , and not simply a Church in retreat before agnostic scientists . |
| 17 | The bursting upon the scene of an organized working class carrying out industrial action on a substantial level , or not just working-class suffrage but , for the first time , mass political parties , and especially working-class parties must have been at least partly experienced as an eruption of contingency and chaos into a world of order . |
| 18 | There must have been at least one individual who had a different number of chromosomes from his parents . |
| 19 | But of course any God capable of intelligently designing something as complex as the DNA/protein replicating machine must have been at least as complex and organized as that machine itself . |
| 20 | ‘ There must have been at least a dozen of them , ’ I lied in mock modesty , ‘ and I doubt if four of them will live to greet tomorrow 's dawn . ’ |
| 21 | That detective must have been at least a captain . |
| 22 | I think ( I can not remember the number ) that it must have been at least 20 lashes he received and I felt every one of them . |
| 23 | It is believed there must have been at least three people who knew exactly what they were looking for . |
| 24 | A Darlington police spokesman said the gang had broken into the offices , just off Hollyhurst Road , after 10.30pm on Friday night and the size of the safe indicated there must have been at least three people involved . |
| 25 | She was barely seventeen , the youngest of the Three Musketeers , as they had styled themselves long ago ; yet in everything except appearance she might have been at least ten years older . |
| 26 | Although the number of species may have been at least approximately the same in marine environments for the last 300 million years or so the kinds of fossils have changed repeatedly , so that , for example , in marine limestones of Silurian age the shelled brachiopods may number dozens of species , whereas in similar looking limestones of Eocene age no brachiopods at all can be found , but there may be as many species of gastropods of kinds unknown in Silurian rocks . |
| 27 | It appeared on the evidence that he believed himself not to be liable ; but he knew that the plaintiffs thought him liable , and would sue him if he did not pay , and in order to avoid the expense and trouble of legal proceedings against himself he agreed to a compromise ; and the question is , whether a person who has given a note as a compromise of a claim honestly made on him , and which but for that compromise would have been at once brought to a legal decision , can resist the payment of the note on the ground that the original claim thus compromised might have been successfully resisted … . |
| 28 | If , in fact , traffic had warranted operations through a 12 hour day , then the number of men required to work the system would have been 4 not 3 , with some duplication to provide relief , and the total wage bill would have been at least £8 per week , which makes Thomas 's figure look ridiculous . |
| 29 | Because the actual physical damage was so variable in its extent , it was immediately obvious to the early investigators that the almost total mortality was not solely the result of the force of the blast , since there would have been at least a few survivors in areas where the blast was less severe . |
| 30 | The earliest date at which these four could have formed part of an ‘ organised backlash ’ would have been at least eighteen months after what Hall et al. |