Example sentences of "have be [adj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | We must be satisfied that the insured person is legally liable and not just morally liable , i.e. he may feel he is responsible for some damage but unless he has been negligent then no liability exists . |
2 | Even so , I suspect that the visit of Pope next month would n't have been possible even a couple of decades ago . |
3 | You must have been rich then a couple of years ago ? |
4 | Emily drank the tea , suddenly aware of the incongruity of the situation : here she was , sitting in the kitchen like one of the servants , something that would have been unthinkable just a few weeks ago . |
5 | Film actors are not the only ones getting vastly rich : some pop stars command sums that would have been unthinkable only a decade ago . |
6 | But while Kaohsiung 's attention to quality is not unique to Yamaha ( and we should n't forget that lower rejection rates also benefit the manufacturer , translating into lower cost per unit ) , their pioneering attitude , honouring quality above all else , has helped raise the standard of Far Eastern guitars to levels which would have been unthinkable only a few years ago . |
7 | Such obtuseness would have been common enough a few years ago . |
8 | Listen , I 'm going to tell you this and you can believe it or not : Uncle Mosse had been dead about a week when they took me in to identify him . |
9 | They had been afloat only a few hours when a seaman shouted down the hatch . |
10 | ‘ I 've been asleep almost an hour . |
11 | She 's enjoying herself , we met her at John 's house I felt nervous this morning for sleeping home late although in fact I have been awake quite a lot in between , but |
12 | It 's a disease which , if it a , they 're fortunate enough to re , recover from the disease , if it 's been severe enough the inflammation may have involved er , some of the cranial nerves , and here we can see a third nerve palsy er as a result of er , the process . |