Example sentences of "have been [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I pull up at the back of the hotel Mr Shah is waiting with a folder full ; his expression , although friendly , contains around his mouth a little reproach that I should have been away from the action for so long . |
| 2 | However , allied to the improvement in companies ' financial position has been an increase in large companies ' liquidity ratios , to their highest level since the end of 1987 ( though this may have been partly at the cost of the liquidity of smaller companies , because of trade credit effect ) . |
| 3 | It could not have been otherwise for the attainment of the required goal of the perfect human being was possible by no other means . |
| 4 | The Otago method may have been slightly below the classical tackling methods of attack , especially from first-phase , but Mains developed a special skill that was to have all his forwards , bit men and small , all very mobile and skilled at handling , retaining or winning the ball on the ground . |
| 5 | Ade had raced Yevgeniev a number of times before that , in Paris in 1985 and in the European Indoor of 1984 , and had never beaten him , and I do n't think he would have been ahead of the Russian this time either . |
| 6 | News at Ten may have been ahead of the BBC 's Nine O'Clock News in the ratings but last night it seemed unsure of what it was trying to do . |
| 7 | This is because all the variation margin payments due will have been up to the penultimate trading day . |
| 8 | ‘ You must have been up with the famous Ord Gaunt ? ’ says the man whose name Howard did n't quite catch , and the dense Middle English blackletter in which the words are uttered exactly matches their resonant profundity . |
| 9 | Robert might have been up in the house . |
| 10 | And the prominent prehistorian Professor R. J. C. Atkinson has clearly demonstrated that the laying out of an accurate , straight landscape line would have been well within the means of the megalithic builders . |
| 11 | This target should have been well within the reach of Horden , seeking their first win . |
| 12 | I think we 'd have been right up the creek without the paddle ! |
| 13 | My sister-in-law answered , so quickly that she must have been right beside the telephone . |
| 14 | At the first , a middle-aged woman with an enormous bosom was digging a fork into a plate of salad with the precision of an accountant jabbing at his calculator , before transferring the accumulated forkful up to her rapidly masticating jaws ; and Morse knew that if he had married her , it would all have been over within the week . |
| 15 | I suppose I could have stopped and analysed just how much , but that would have been massively beside the point . |
| 16 | He 's as sane as you or I. He 's a romantic at heart , a born adventurer ; a couple of hundred years ago and he 'd have been somewhere on the other side of the world building up the odd empire . ’ |
| 17 | And erm I think I was in the middle somewhere , I was n't er brilliant but I must have been somewhere in the middle I suppose . |
| 18 | Had the tax been implemented at the time it would have noticeably increased the number of tax exiles who were leaving the country , for never mind pop-stars and sportsmen , it would have been even worth the while of middle management to seek a place in the ex-colonial countries , or to learn a new tongue for residence in a foreign land , simply in order to achieve some savings and improve his family life and provide for dependants . |
| 19 | I suspect , though , there can be no doubt about which side she would have been on in the public debate about fox-hunting prompted by last week 's Private Member 's Bill . |
| 20 | Harry could already have been here in the porch . |
| 21 | And , as the hairs on head and body are all at different stages of the hair growth cycle , waxing does not always mean that some hair does n't grow back quickly — it may have been just under the skin just waiting to pop out ! |
| 22 | ‘ And the other boots would have been just inside the baize door as usual , ’ said Ethel thoughtfully . |
| 23 | I was about eleven at the time , it must have been just after the war . |
| 24 | Well , and I went to Ipswich well it must have been just after the war then |
| 25 | He knows exactly what she means — he was brought up in a street that might have been just round the corner . |
| 26 | Yet she would have been upstairs with the old man before I was out of the moonlit yard . |
| 27 | But at its finest , it reaches heights of eloquence that can not have been most on the leaders of the next generation and it is music that ought to be heard in our halls . |
| 28 | If he had testified the alternatives would have been either for the judge to cross-examine him or for his evidence to remain untested and unchallenged . |
| 29 | Could they have been in with the real Communist underground ? ’ |
| 30 | → Sorry to have forgotten about the Pacifica , Graham — although , come to think of it , Charvel/Jackson might also have been in on the act back in the mid-eighties . |