Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [modal v] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ramsey asked the pointed question whether William Temple would have been able to write if he had been Bishop of London and not Archbishop of York . |
| 2 | It is obvious that if this submission is correct , setting up Stardust Jewellers would have been pointless . |
| 3 | The Scarlet Pimpernel would have been proud of us . |
| 4 | Reports in late January suggested that the United Kingdom Defence Ministry might have been aware of the export of components used in the manufacture of the Iraqi " super-gun " [ see pp. 37332 ; 37390-91 ; 37471 ; 38361 ] . |
| 5 | NOT even the most imaginative of San Diego Chargers fans would have been entertaining Super Bowl thoughts after the team lost their first four games . |
| 6 | The van Goghs must have been relieved as well as saddened when their rumbling volcano of a son departed . |
| 7 | In other words , foreign auction houses should have been able to start holding auctions in Paris in 1993 , and as the two big auction houses are much more powerful and widely expert than any French auctioneering partnership , the commissaires-priseurs had good reason to be frightened . |
| 8 | A West Point cadet would have been proud of those shoes already . |
| 9 | on the date of import into the United Kingdom the car which was the subject of the total loss settlement would have been exempt from value added tax and car tax |
| 10 | And no one had seen or heard any struggle , although Joanna went missing shortly before 7pm last Tuesday , when she was due to take an aerobics class — and when the car park would have been busy . |
| 11 | In any case the stock fence would have been essential . |
| 12 | Faceted and polished pebbles are not all that common and are also found in periglacial conditions where wind action may have been important , e.g. the Breckland of East Anglia . |
| 13 | The notion that the media have ‘ amplified ’ football violence may have been tenable ten or twenty years ago , but the current scale of hooliganism does not appear to be much exaggerated by the media . |
| 14 | I pointed out that if there had been any counter demonstration effect would have been serious and very uncomfortable to both of us . |
| 15 | Given the importance of the " last in , first out " principle in British industry , the experiences of many members of the temporary labour force would have been little different from what they actually were . |
| 16 | She estimated what the size of the labour force in the United States would have been in 1960 by making two assumptions : ( a ) if death rates had not declined since 1900 , the labour force would have been over 13 million less in 1960 ; ( b ) if death rates had declined from 1900–1920 but remained the same level after that , the labour force would have been 6 million smaller in 1960 . |
| 17 | But Mark 3 stock in its conventional form has been involved in accidents , and has been found to stand up with little crushing and buckling in potentially horrific situations where in older stock casualties might have been high . |
| 18 | Our study population may have been different from that examined in other studies in respect of different bowel habits ( less consistent diarrhoea in our patients ) . |
| 19 | If it had not been for Agnes 's willingness to help , poor Miss Watson would have been unaided in her weakness . |
| 20 | We did n't have ‘ team spirit ’ any more , ( Miss Brodie would have been proud of us ! ) . |
| 21 | Well it says it would of , J F K would have been seventy four . |
| 22 | However , even though Richard Baxter may have been poor as a theologian and controversialist , he was undoubtedly one of the most outstanding pastors of all time . |
| 23 | In each case the implications for their regular labour forces would have been negative . |
| 24 | Molesworth 's chairmanship of the Select Committee on the Downing Street Public Offices Bill must have been one of his last acts as First Commissioner of Works , as on 21st July , 1855 , Palmerston promoted him to be Secretary of State for the Colonies , and appointed the President of the Board of Health , Sir Benjamin Hall ( 1802–67 ) , in his place . |
| 25 | If listeners were just keen to get into the ‘ real meat ’ of the Brahms second piano concerto , then genuine Brahms lovers must have been disappointed . |
| 26 | Many of the initial assessments by doctors in this study were carried out by trainee psychiatrists who spent only six months with the team as part of their training ; had the proportion of assessments by consultant psychogeriatricians and clinical assistants in the sample been more representative , the agreements between team and research diagnoses might have been closer still . |
| 27 | Each also had a wood stove , and a bathroom so small that someone of Arnold Schwarzenegger proportions would have been afraid to enter it , for fear of never getting back out . |
| 28 | Practice shots would have been impossible , but with Open traffic at crawling pace , it was never on . |
| 29 | Ten years ago the idea of the general secretary of the Transport Union making a friendly tour of a British car factory would have been unthinkable . |
| 30 | Sampling error because of an insufficient number of biopsy specimens may have been responsible for the fact that this difference did not reach significance . |