Example sentences of "have [been] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may have been for a local production company producing a video for one of their corporate clients ; at the other end of the scale , you may have written some pieces for the broadcasters ( BBC , ITV , etc . ) . |
| 2 | The simplest method would have been for a French submarine to wait for the Rainbow Warrior somewhere on the high seas and sink it with a torpedo but that posed the problem of what to do with any survivors . |
| 3 | And that would undoubtedly have been for the best . |
| 4 | Few of the youngsters will have been to a big match ; what they are emulating is what they have seen on television in shop windows and heard on their transistors . |
| 5 | They 'd have been to the Catholic service , had their sins forgiven from the week before , then started again . ’ |
| 6 | The colonial courts , despite their formal structure which was modelled on British lines , were far less alien to the average Sri Lankan than they would have been to the ordinary Englishman . |
| 7 | … I mean a completely different development arising from computer logic but as unimaginable to us now as a Shakespearean character would have been to an oral-epic culture , and a different way of thinking about and rendering … all worldly phenomena , as revolutionary as the scientific spirit that slowly emerged out of the Renaissance and the Gutenberg galaxy . |
| 8 | Accordingly , it is evident that a gift of such significance could have been of no small value to a freeholder or councillor who would otherwise have found difficulty in endowing a relative so generously at the commencement of his career . |
| 9 | Mayer immediately protested the decision , saying the extra width could have been of no possible advantage to Hunt , a view with which I disagreed then and still disagree now , for a sporting rule is a sporting rule . |
| 10 | If the election had been declared to be void ( as Panama and Liberia asserted ) , the Committee 's actions in the intervening period would have been of no legal effect . |
| 11 | However , Foley 's mill was probably the first erected in the midlands , and may have been of a new design . |
| 12 | They might almost have been of a different species . |
| 13 | It is not at all unlikely that some pressure was put on women in these two key firms , but it may have been of a persuasive rather than an intimidating kind . |
| 14 | While he was in Chinese captivity , and apart from writing poems in classical Chinese ( some of which , while they may not have been of the highest order classically , are nevertheless moving and rather beautiful ) Ho had also translated Dr Sun Yat Sen 's modern political classic the San Min Chu I into Vietnamese and this expedient flattery of China and Chinese continued after Ho 's release . |
| 15 | structures , their possibilities I mean at one stage they would have been at a certain level had n't got a landlord their income but that 's within one particular moral economy , now the idea here is to break that down , you know , just get rid of the circle altogether . |
| 16 | Initially a pitch of a ♯ = 408 was chosen as being close to the Bate Collection 's recorders of the period : at this pitch it sounds fine but one could easily allow that the original use of the instrument might have been at a higher pitch than this . |
| 17 | It was even rumoured that Western architects were approached , but that must have been at a subordinate level since early on one clear idea took hold of Ceauşescu 's mind : the whole project , from design through the workforce to the materials used , must come from Romania itself . |
| 18 | But er that was , that was very much er clutching at things that might have been at the last moment . |
| 19 | It must have been at the very time of the proceedings against Myln that the archbishop of St Andrews received the earl of Argyll 's answers to his letter of admonition of 31 March 1558 , in which he warned the earl of the dangers of his support for Protestantism . |
| 20 | ‘ Though we knew by the place where he had fallen that it must have been at the very summit just as the path runs down the cliff to Kinghorn Manor . ’ |
| 21 | Singer Richard Fairbrass , stormed at the duo at No.12 with Magic Friend : ‘ They could n't have been at the same show . |
| 22 | Also aware that I was happier with the evasion that I would have been with a wrong answer … |
| 23 | It is not that prospects for earnings are 10 p.c. better that they were in the middle of last week , but it is possible to argue that prospects are that much better than they would have been under a Labour government and that the market was discounting such a result . |
| 24 | One in three householders believed bills were less than they would have been under the existing system ( of flat-rate charges ) , nearly one in five said bills were about the same , while more than one in three said they were higher . |
| 25 | Damage whilst on other premises is now covered , but would not have been under the previous Engineering policy . |
| 26 | When the democratic French governments of the inter-war period ignored Le Corbusier 's scheme for demolishing most of Paris in favour of his own grandiose plan of urban renewal , the architect turned his thoughts to how much better his fate would have been under an absolute monarch like Louis XIV : ‘ Homage to a great town planner . |
| 27 | I am glad they 've approved it because it 's , it 's removed any uncertainty there might have been about the nineteen nineties , slightly disappointing that they chose to tinker with our wording here and there , but , but by and large , not too unhappy . |
| 28 | It must have been about the fourth or fifth time I went round to see him . |
| 29 | Or would it have been about the same ? |
| 30 | if we had taken the most recent trend , it would have been over the last three years . |