Example sentences of "have [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mechanisms of control and the latitude which such schools would have are still unclear and are being studied by the Ministry of Education . |
| 2 | Becket may well have been closely involved in building the great walls of packed clay which still enclose the local ‘ innings ’ , or sheep pastures . |
| 3 | One may doubt if her influence on ‘ Missy of Argos ’ would have been altogether good . |
| 4 | It was built so very near the sea that it had narrowly escaped being carried away in high tides , and doubtless would have been altogether afloat but for its having a foundation of some two feet and a half of stone . |
| 5 | Before Cowley could voice his astonished irritation at that complacent comment , Hogan hurried on , ‘ It would have been altogether different if this Doyle of yours had died , believe me . |
| 6 | How much of the liquor in this anthropoid coffin was body fluid will have to be left to the imagination ; suffice it to say that owing to the construction of such coffins it would have been practically impossible to have introduced much liquid preservatives . |
| 7 | From the point of view of the people of the Gorbals in the Thirties , fox-hunting and psychoanalysis would have been practically indistinguishable concerns of the rich in the Sassenach South , of the ‘ high heid yins ’ of the world — an expression of the poor in Scotland then , which Ralph Glasser uses . |
| 8 | While motives may have been broadly consistent and widely shared , progress was in fact often erratic and haphazard , disagreements were many and the early Meiji leaders could scarcely have foreseen some of the longer term consequences of their policies . |
| 9 | It must have been reassuringly familiar to him for it had many of the characteristics of the stone-built villages of the West Riding . |
| 10 | Beggars and vagrants , of course , may have been exceptionally mobile . |
| 11 | Rifat 's opinions were shared by many others , Hindu , Muslim and Sikh , but her family in Pakistan must have been exceptionally reticent about sex . |
| 12 | One deduces that the cold table at the London Tavern must have been exceptionally good , for all Farley 's sideboard dishes , cold pies , hams , spiced beef joints and potted meats are thought out with much care , are set down in detail and show a delicate and educated taste . |
| 13 | The car must have been exceptionally sturdy for it often had me driving and pedalling like mad , with one friend perched on the bonnet and another on the back . |
| 14 | Had England this season won a third successive Grand Slam under Will Carling , it would have been mighty difficult to go against his record . |
| 15 | But Noades revealed that if he had insisted in altering the payment arrangement of his players , they would have been automatically entitled to free transfers and could have walked out and signed for someone else . |
| 16 | For the Japanese students the shameful dream may not be confined to these topics — for instance many of their dreams about failing examinations or their schooling in general may have been intrinsically shameful , and they reported both of these more often than the Americans . |
| 17 | It 's combining forces really ; with Cozy 's thing it would have been mostly instrumental , including Cozy 's ‘ Greatest Hits ’ , but with Tony involved we can legitimately do some Sabbath songs which he co-wrote , as we effectively have three quarters of the line-up . |
| 18 | To move forward to the present there would have been yet another shock for Green . |
| 19 | She had been about to collude with Stan in the face of all her good resolutions , and there would have been yet another indelible stain on her spirit which , she suspected , were it available to her , she would not care to put unwashed in her underwear drawer . |
| 20 | I know that I went there when the change I have spoken of must have been already complete . |
| 21 | Knowing that the sergeant-major , the most senior layman , would have been incredibly nervous Eva did as she was told . |
| 22 | If he was not involved , then he must have been incredibly naive . |
| 23 | ‘ The council has been capped this year and we felt it would have been incredibly insensitive to spend money on road races when some council workers are facing the prospect of losing their jobs . ’ |
| 24 | His ideas on economic policy , as on other matters , may have been overly simplistic or even fundamentally erroneous , but the fact that he had a vision of the America he wished to bring about was a strength he possessed , one that many other presidents and presidential candidates have lacked . |
| 25 | But even before the last two matches the England management would have been reasonably content with the tour and the evidence it offered for the future development of England rugby . |
| 26 | While the Vale of York and the Wold country might have been reasonably fruitful , the province as a whole lived close to the margin of subsistence — so much so that periodic military activity on the Border was invariably handicapped by the need to import virtually all supplies , even of forage . |
| 27 | At the end of the test I have to say that I would have been reasonably happy to work with any of the monitors on a long term basis . |
| 28 | ‘ I wanted him to chase me , not literally , though I would have been madly impressed if he 'd charged up Piccadilly on a white stallion , but I just wanted some firmer confirmation that he loved me . |
| 29 | Black gets it into the box Rozario got a header in but even as he headed the ball he limped away again and if he 'd have been properly fit then he would have really powered that one in . |
| 30 | The change might well have been partly due to the intense interest in American research at the time into the political socialisation of children . |