Example sentences of "have [been] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You said yourself , that hole could have been made at any time . |
| 2 | These would probably have been deposited at different times , and the detailed examination of their contents will , in theory , reveal a progression of different parts of a coinage ; if one or more of these parts can be attached to an absolute date , it should be possible to estimate a date for the other parts in the progression or sequence . |
| 3 | It was indulging in a relatively straightforward exercise in civil engineering which could have been undertaken at any time during the last 100 years or more . |
| 4 | So if w = 0.5 , this year 's expected rate would be 13 per cent ; if w = 1 , this year 's expected rate would be 16 per cent ( in this case , the expectation is said to have been fully adjusted ) ; if w = 0 , the expectation would be 10 per cent ( that is , it would not have been adjusted at all ) . |
| 5 | Had the plans for a third London airport in the Thames estuary gone ahead , the land could doubtless have been developed at considerable profit . |
| 6 | Not much enlightenment there ; the same reply could have been given at any time in the past four years . |
| 7 | Many programmers realized that they had been programming things that should never have been taught at all , or that should have been taught by some other method or combination of methods . |
| 8 | Some recently acquired territory may have been lost at this time or soon after . |
| 9 | He said the entrance should not have been in the centre , but a little door should have been built at one side . |
| 10 | they provide no way of measuring the salience of an attitude ; we never know whether the attitude would have been expressed at all , or in the same way , apart from the direct question … |
| 11 | To meet this point I think one must say that Bentham 's view was , in effect , that a right action must not only do more good than harm , but must also be such that neither the particular good it does , nor any other comparable good which might have substituted for it , could have been achieved at less cost in terms of harm done . |
| 12 | This will have been achieved at modest cost with , it seems likely , triumphant results . |
| 13 | In a letter to a newspaper , their solicitor Tim Robinson says that his clients should never have been prosecuted at all . |
| 14 | Had our patient been subjected to an exploratory laparotomy during the initial admission the diaphragmatic tear would have been diagnosed at that time . |
| 15 | Det Chief Insp Dave Sinclair , of Wiltshire CID , said : ‘ He could have been shot at close range to the device and staggered 20 yards away before collapsing . ’ |
| 16 | It seemed almost impossible to many people that such tiny things as micro-organisms could have been fossilised at all . |
| 17 | The opposition thoughtfully provided a batting line-up of stroke-playing dashers , and bowlers that could easily have been selected at random from a passing Delhi omnibus . |
| 18 | Horne could have been killed at any hour . |
| 19 | In the case of an indemnifier who is not a consumer , the question to be asked is whether , in the absence of the indemnity , the indemnitee would have been obliged at common law to compensate the indemnifier for the economic loss suffered as a result of having to pay out on the third party claim . |
| 20 | To understand it , we need first to look at the development of Nietzsche 's inner life : the particular temperament and range of interests without which the controversial book would never have been written at all . |
| 21 | Lloyd de Mause reports that ‘ the earliest lives I have found of children who may not have been beaten at all date from 1690 ’ . |
| 22 | The best books of today do not look in the least like Kelmscotts , but without Morris they might never have been created at all . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the very fact that an explanation should have been created at all tells us quite a lot about the way that the human mind works . |
| 24 | The police officer agreed Anderson would have been charged at that stage if there had been sufficient evidence . |
| 25 | The appeal was not very successful and was condemned by many prominent townspeople , but that it could have been launched at all goes to show that old traditions die hard in the West Country ! |
| 26 | Such schemes almost always represent a very poor true economic return and many would not have been contemplated at all if the substantial grants and HLCAs were unavailable . |
| 27 | As judicial proceedings are thought to have been held at prominent landmarks , legal decisions could have been held at prominent landmarks , legal decisions could have been made in the vicinity of Loyal centuries ago . |
| 28 | Thereafter the time was never judged to be ripe although we were told in oral evidence that , subject to the availability of Ministers , a Defence Committee [ i.e. OD ] meeting could have been held at any time , if necessary at short notice . |
| 29 | In some cases the overlay will not be completely accurate as the different maps may have been produced at different times by different teams of surveyors . |
| 30 | In fact we may take it from the wording of Section 2 of the Definition Order that , during the conference questions were asked about the liability of individuals to repatriation , or Section 2 might not have been included at all . |