Example sentences of "have [been] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of worrying about how to make the RUC acceptable to the minority , O'Neill should have been using the legitimate power of the state to crush an illegal insurrection . |
| 2 | Whatever , she certainly would n't have been experiencing the gut-wrenching tension that she was feeling now . |
| 3 | If food 's got anything to do with it then I must have been eating the wrong way for the last 40 years . |
| 4 | If mass had been negative , space-time would have been curved the other way , like the surface of a saddle . |
| 5 | Yet , as I watched all this from the very end of the slow queue , I had thought it would be me who would have been regarded the potential menace as I was at the wheel of the most outrageously styled and priced supercar ever . |
| 6 | He appealed for information from anyone who had witnessed the incident , particularly people who might have been leaving the nearby Greenstead social club at about the same time . |
| 7 | Also , it later transpired , the scheme would have been doomed to disappointment , because we would n't have been granted the necessary planning permission for change of use . |
| 8 | By the time you read this ( Merry Chrimbo , by the way ! ) we will have held a social evening to welcome our new members on the 1st October , we will have been to see the chilling drama ‘ The Woman in Black ’ at the Fortune Theatre on the 19th November and we will have had Christmas drinks on the 12th December . |
| 9 | At this stage you may also be in contact with the social services who may have been supporting the new client for some time . |
| 10 | Nuadu was glad that he was unable to speak , for to have done so , to have uttered any kind of sound , would certainly have been to betray the utter revulsion that engulfed him . |
| 11 | If you 'd told me your name , at least I 'd have been spared the sudden shock of finding that my temporary employer was last night 's rescuer ! ’ |
| 12 | Had Buksh taken the appropriate action on each occasion — a yellow card and pointing to the spot respectively — we might have been spared the subsequent skirmishing : |
| 13 | She pinched herself , but might as well have been pinching the padded plastic of the bed on which she sat for all the sensation she felt . |
| 14 | The emergence of an independent Macedonia on Greece 's northern border was indeed an event that justified a Greek response , but the response should not have been to tell the new country it could not use the name ‘ Macedonia ’ ( see box ) . |
| 15 | But he may have been observing the traditional superstition that it is unlucky for the bridegroom to see the bride on the eve of her wedding . |
| 16 | As for the levels of owner occupation , there are 3.5 million more owner-occupiers today than there were in 1979 and no doubt 3.5 million more than there would have been had the right hon. Gentleman been in government . |
| 17 | The sanction imposed is real and effective since it satisfied all three conditions required by Community law ; it is adequate in relation to the damage sustained by the claimant , since the claimant is put in the position in which she would have been had the discriminatory refusal to hire her not occurred , both as concerns the post of employment and the income therefrom ; it has a real deterrent effect on the defendant bank who will not only have to pay the amount of about seven years ' monthly salary , plus interest , but will furthermore find itself with an additional employee ( the claimant and the man hired in her stead ) ; it is the same sanction as the one imposed for any other illegal refusal to hire . |
| 18 | ‘ All the more reason why he should have been having the full attention of you both , ’ Doctor Staples said sharply . |
| 19 | The insurer was ordered to write to 20,000 policyholders earlier this year , telling them they may have been sold the wrong products . |
| 20 | He must have been playing the beastly thing for years . |
| 21 | The suggestion was that his subordinates might have been running the illegal operation . |
| 22 | You may have been offered the similar T.buttikoferi , which has the usual bad habits when adult . |
| 23 | And if he involved himself in military activity , he would simply have been discharging the martial duty expected of him as royal liberator . |