Example sentences of "[verb] [vb mod] have [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing has gone right for Armiger or Tenby — remember him — and although Commander in Chief won two Derbys , the fact that Cecil 's more exposed two-year-olds failed to blossom must have been a great disappointment to him . |
| 2 | Nothing has gone right for Armiger or Tenby — remember him — and although Commander in Chief won two Derbys , the fact that Cecil 's more exposed two-year-olds failed to blossom must have been a great disappointment to him . |
| 3 | No guidelines are given for the interpretation of s8 except that the term to be included must have been a fair and reasonable one having regard to the circumstances which were , or ought reasonably to have been , known to or in the contemplation of , the parties when the contract was made ( s11(1) ) . |
| 4 | Er there were a couple of times when the police were called and actually turned up , and and what people believed would have been a minor fight , then developed into a you know a major skirmish . |
| 5 | Except at the beginning , when the eccentric lord immediately clashed with Johnson , even though Johnson says that the magnetism of Lord Monboddo 's conversation ‘ easily drew us out of our way , and the entertainment which we received would have been a sufficient recompense for a much greater deviation ’ . |
| 6 | The shortage of high-grade timbers for aircraft and boat-building would have been a serious matter during the War if all these woods had not been ‘ upgraded ’ by lamination with perfectly satisfactory results . |
| 7 | Diabetics tend to have higher serum cholesterol levels than non-diabetes ( Santen et al , 1972 ) , and the old diabetic diet only recently abandoned may have been a contributing factor . |
| 8 | His blond head dipped briefly , as he refused her the possibility of completing what he must have guessed would have been a remonstrative retort . |
| 9 | Even the sound of a pin dropping would have been a gross intrusion . |
| 10 | That the place chosen should have been a quiet seaside resort , on a dark night of cold wind blowing from the Channel and the summer season over , made the events seem more bizarre . |