Example sentences of "[noun] that [vb mod] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His frowning gaze swept over her and there was a glint in the blue eyes that might have been intimidating if she were n't so angry . |
| 2 | He 's in his late forties , tall , has a good deal of rather wild , greying hair , and a cardigan that must have been home-made . |
| 3 | THE plug has finally been pulled on the London Ambulance Service computer that may have been responsible for up to 20 deaths last week . |
| 4 | Some 40 per cent of the rural population have no access to a car so that the problem of claiming a benefit that may have been straightforward in town , is very pressing in the country . |
| 5 | There is sometimes a hidden symbolism that would have been apparent to people at that time . |
| 6 | The plan contained no provisions for the long-term clean-up that would have been necessary if the tanker had been carrying heavier crude . |
| 7 | We pass some strangely shaped mountains that must have been volcanic plugs poking up through vast panoramas . |
| 8 | We got our second goal too late to run up the score that might have been available to us , ’ said the national coach . |
| 9 | It is a conclusion that must have been popular with the Department of the Environment which funded two of the studies . |
| 10 | The maximum ACT offset is limited to the amount of tax that would have been payable on the profits assuming they had been charged at the basic rate of tax ( s 239(2) ) . |
| 11 | Only from a record that would have been available at the police station or from officers knowledge . |
| 12 | It was set in a triumphant smile , a smile that would have been smug if it had not been so full of the purest metaphysical good humour . |
| 13 | Yet this inflexibility spoiled a day that should have been special for Dr Schofield . |
| 14 | So , we have a speculative picture of mineral crystals on the primeval Earth showing some of the properties of replication , multiplication , heredity and mutation that would have been necessary in order for a form of cumulative selection to get started . |
| 15 | Oz formed his face into a solemn mask that would have been funny if Jinny had not been trying to keep him happy . |
| 16 | Another thought the women looked ‘ tired and sad … dressed in gowns that must have been old on their grandmothers ’ , while the children were dressed in ‘ garments of nondescript purpose and size , but were generally chubby , and gay , as they frolicked in and out among the baskets , bundles , bedding , babies ’ chairs etc , piled waist-high on various parts of the platform' . |
| 17 | Indeed , it was an achievement that they managed it just long enough to clinch the Heineken title and then , once it did not matter any longer began to lose games at a rate that would have been unthinkable during the previous years of unbroken triumph . |
| 18 | What is quite clear is that after the death of Lanfranc the English monks felt free to assert themselves in ways that would have been impossible while Lanfranc lived . |
| 19 | Film actors are not the only ones getting vastly rich : some pop stars command sums that would have been unthinkable only a decade ago . |
| 20 | A HUMBLE £28-a-day flagman bears the main responsibility for the shambles that should have been this year 's Aintree Grand National , according to the official inquiry into ‘ The race that never was . ’ |
| 21 | Then he gaped as Bower-bird flutter the wings that should have been useless , and sprang into the air in a perfect take-off . |
| 22 | We remain uninformed both about the now-extinct intermediates and the evolutionary processes that would have been responsible for the diversification of early multicellular animals into what we now perceive as distinct phyla , each with its own body plan . |
| 23 | ( Chiang Kai-shek was not specifically mentioned but it is hard to think of other forces that might have been available . ) |
| 24 | Changes in technology have made it possible to imagine means of communication that would have been unthinkable two hundred years ago : radio broadcasts , instant word-processing , telephone conversations , etc . |
| 25 | Now came the part of the operation that would have been impossible without the trained elephants . |
| 26 | I enjoyed my tea and glimpse into a way of life that would have been familiar to JTR . |
| 27 | Disturbed that the English were at odds with a nation that should have been one of its natural religious allies , Cromwell brought about a rapid end to the Dutch War , and during the peace negotiations he even proposed that in the interests of their common religion the English and Dutch republics should merge to form one united Protestant state . |
| 28 | ( c ) If the death takes place after the passing of the Finance Act , 1975 , but within seven years of the advance or determination , then in ascertaining for the purposes of CTT the value of the deceased 's estate immediately before his death there is to be included the value of any property which would have been chargeable with estate duty had Section 2 ( 1 ) ( b ) ( i ) of the Finance Act , 1894 , still been in force ( ie , after the application of any taper relief ) , unless the deceased was the surviving partner of a marriage which had been terminated by the death of the other spouse before 13/11/74 and the exempting provisions of Section 5 ( 2 ) of that Act would have applied had they still been in force ; and the persons accountable for the tax are those who would have been accountable under Section 44 of the Finance Act , 1950 , for any estate duty that would have been chargeable . |
| 29 | This was a messianic fervour that must have been similar to that possessed by the ancient zealots who died defending Masada against the Romans 2,000 years ago . |
| 30 | Money and effort that should have been devoted to supporting the ordinary people in Highfields has been wasted on power politics and I agree that it 's time surely to put an end to that disgrace now there is a certain logic in Mr amendment , it basically says let us put the implementation of council policy in the hands of the director of education , let him take executive control and let us take politics out of it and if I thought that that would do what both Mr and myself want to happen I would support . |