Example sentences of "have been [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was brought home to Charles for the first time how much of a strain the last weeks must have been for a girl of her age . |
| 2 | She praises the risk takers , wealth creators , people who are frequently from modest backgrounds and who may not even have been at a university . |
| 3 | I have forgotten how I picked up my copy , it may have been at a retreat which I was asked to lead at Pleshey . |
| 4 | You must have been at a party . ’ |
| 5 | He had no idea what he was going to do and if the crow had ignored hid he would probably have been at a loss . |
| 6 | ‘ I think she might have been with a bit of persuasion ; it was my father who was against it . |
| 7 | On a further appeal to the Privy Council the Board held that , if jurisdiction existed at all , it must have been under a section of the relevant Bahamas legislation ( section 23 of the Court of Appeal Act ( Statute Law of the Bahama Islands , 1965 rev. , c. 34 ) ) which provided : |
| 8 | In many circumstances the service to the University may have been over a period several times the 3 years of undergraduate study . |
| 9 | By the Saints , he must have been without a woman for too long , he thought wryly . |
| 10 | No self-respecting Victorian or Edwardian woman would have been without a nail buffer , usually made from chamois leather , to ensure that her fingertips were always gleaming . |
| 11 | The woman was then driven around for over an hour and believes part of the journey may have been on a motorway . |
| 12 | ‘ It wo n't have been on a weighing machine since it left the village where it was grown . ’ |
| 13 | Must have been on a visit . |
| 14 | lost that I 'd have been in a pickle . |
| 15 | He looked so innocent that Mrs Maylie said , ‘ This child could never have been in a gang of robbers ! ’ |
| 16 | He might have been in a rush , with a car badly parked or a taxi ticking . |
| 17 | I think she must have been in a state of shock . |
| 18 | The house , their chamber , the food were arranged to perfection , and after the brutish clangour of Famagusta they should have been in a state of bewildered gratitude . |
| 19 | If instead we had measured A's spin in the x direction and found it to be " up " then , of course , by a similar argument B would have been in a state with unc definitely " down " . |
| 20 | The Judge said the gang may have been in a state of panic , but the police were unarmed and it was miracle they were n't seriously injured . |
| 21 | Er the only difference between the situation now and the situation when I was a teacher is that there are a lot of Christians in this room per square metre than there would have been in a school where I taught and that applies to where I work now er because er the number of Christians who are around me in in the workplace are actually even smaller I guess and er that may be something that er you will need to recognise is an unusual feature of your school life and that er as you leave school so you 're going to go into very different environments where people behave very differently . |
| 22 | We might have been in a shopping concourse and her cries some strange species of muzak : |
| 23 | Stalin is dead , and so since this summer is Andrei Gromyko , who as Deputy Foreign Minister at the time of the 1957 note , might have been in a position to provide some elucidation . |
| 24 | On the other hand , it is conceivable that he would not have been in a position to appreciate the differences very clearly . |
| 25 | Her presence in the workhouse in itself seems an odd occurrence ; it was hardly as if she had no-one to turn to — any one of her brothers must have been in a position to help when help was needed . |
| 26 | His business contacts were being checked , but it seemed unlikely to Azadi that any of them would have been in a position to spirit the shipowner away at a moment 's notice . |
| 27 | Jesus would hardly have been in a position to carry out this miracle of healing . |
| 28 | On the one hand , it is not easy to see who would have been in a position to pay them ; on the other , the incidence of wage assessments fell away steadily as distance from the London region increased . |
| 29 | Few voters could have obtained a real grasp of the issues at stake and hardly any would have been in a position to assess the leadership qualities of the candidates on offer . |
| 30 | For my part I think that there is abundant evidence which would have justified this court in substituting findings that Miss T. was not in a physical or mental condition which enabled her to reach a decision binding on the medical authorities and that even if , contrary to that view , she would otherwise have been in a position to reach such a decision , the influence of her mother was such as to vitiate the decision which she expressed . |