Example sentences of "have been [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a time when it would have been altogether too easy to disappear into the exacting but ultimately limiting routine of grammar-school teaching , Alfred Cobban enlivened and enlarged my interest in scholarly work . |
| 2 | next week so he could n't have been away anyway . |
| 3 | She must have been away so we took flight . |
| 4 | With greater beauty , I would perhaps have been sooner there . |
| 5 | It might have been slightly more gracious of him to pay tribute to the work of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister in getting this universal and non-discriminatory register of arms transfers recom-mended to the Assembly . |
| 6 | I think perhaps not quite so much , you know , bending of the head might have been slightly more comfortable . |
| 7 | Not a challenging or penetrating tour of enquiry , especially as the population of Aberdeen at the time must have been not less than twenty thousand . |
| 8 | Certainly at the time of our taking over , the the number of operatives would have been not far short of a hundred . |
| 9 | In the 1840s the aim would have been not so much to save the debtor 's soul as to save his creditors the expense and boredom of having to sue him . |
| 10 | And , and in a sense , not to be explicit , would , would have been not so much a crime , but would have been an error I think . |
| 11 | In her place I would have been not only up the wall but out of the door ! |
| 12 | In this they may have been not entirely alone , but it is a serious charge , and it would be a brave man who would assert that it could not be substantiated for the British audio-visual scene as well . |
| 13 | Some of the passengers must have been up just after dawn to watch the huge liner ease its way gently alongside the dock , and those who were n't were beginning gradually to emerge on the upper decks , or to enjoy breakfast by one of the pools . |
| 14 | Still , if he had not been called away he would have been up here , no doubt , demanding to see progress . |
| 15 | You might have been up there playing and somebody like me or a young talent scout from a record company . |
| 16 | He still jumped well , but if it had been a bit softer he would have been up there . ’ |
| 17 | It must have been up there for years , it weighed at least 14 carats and sat like a throbbing lime fruit pastille on the back of my unmoving hand . |
| 18 | And the bobbies may have been up there and they may just have overlooked something . |
| 19 | She 'd have been up there on her Sunday off , bursting with the news . |
| 20 | ‘ You 'd have been up there with the best of them by now . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ They should n't have been up there at all ! ’ said the Rais . |
| 22 | " You must have been up early . |
| 23 | If I 'd been able to guess at the future , the turning point would have been right there — wheeling the ship around and moving as fast as possible away from anything to do with Fraxilly . |
| 24 | We must have been right out in the sticks . |
| 25 | If they can not , then banking 's rule of thumb will have been right once again . |
| 26 | Furthermore , conducting a random sample survey of even 5 per cent of Wirral 's 260,000 adult residents would have been both very expensive and extremely time-consuming . |
| 27 | It is likely that locomotor and positional behaviours were related to environmental change , in this case the move from tropical forest habitats in Africa to the subtropical and warm temperate forest habitats of Europe , which would have been both more seasonal and more open , with less complex canopies . |
| 28 | Their case would have been vastly more plausible ; and a decisive electoral victory for the Labour Party might have been seen as a mandate for the promotion of industrial democracy in the trade unions ' model of it , and as an implicit declaration of public opinion in favour of the consequential abridgement or even abrogation of the rights of ownership . |
| 29 | It would have been rather too close to home . |
| 30 | Eva never speaks of being afraid as the various political situations blew up even though at times it must have been rather like walking a tightrope after UDI . |