Example sentences of "[noun] which [modal v] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was eagerness and excitement in his voice at once , echoing the emotion which must have been obvious in Hornblower 's tone — Hornblower took notice of it , and as he buckled his waistband he reaffirmed his resolution to be more careful how he spoke , for he must regain his reputation as a silent hero . |
| 2 | When it came , the eruption was of massive proportions and deposited a great thickness of ash which completely buried the town , and it set off great tidal waves which may have been responsible for the termination of the Minoan civilization by ravaging the coastal towns all around Crete . |
| 3 | These three trends combined to form a more environmental physical geography which may have been late but hopefully not too late . |
| 4 | In the late 1980s , the need for education about the dangers of transmitting the AIDS virus justified a degree of public explicitness which would have been unthinkable in previous decades . |
| 5 | She had hung up a Breughel pint , and the golden patterns on the wall brought it to life — the Elizabethan diamond panes casting shafts of light and designs which would have been impossible through a modern window . |
| 6 | Their mutual nature also explains why , until 1983 , the Building Societies ' Association ( BSA ) was able to operate a system of ‘ recommended ( interest ) rates ’ , a form of cartel which would have been illegal for public companies . |
| 7 | By 1719 there were eleven , a figure which would have been higher but for the continuing war with Sweden and the very strained relations with Great Britain which then existed . |
| 8 | They not only allowed the third party an action which would have been impossible at civil law , but also permitted specific performance . |
| 9 | Anyone who has advanced money for the payment of the employee debts which would have been preferential is subrogated to the rights of the employee . |
| 10 | Leaders of ambulance crews argue that their industrial action , in protest at a 6.5 per cent pay offer , has exposed the lack of personnel which may have been responsible for the deaths . |
| 11 | Because of that prominence , it proved difficult to develop that element of compromise and bargaining which would have been essential for integrative success . |
| 12 | In which case the non-verbal concomitants of the various utterances are improvised as if for the first time , and in the best of all possible productions an unforeseeable Lear , Macbeth or Rosalind emerges in performance , and the speeches come across expressing meanings which would have been hard to foresee from reading the bare text . |
| 13 | This means that in the case of a community service order , the court which revokes the order must sentence the offender to a sentence which would have been available on the occasion when the community service order was made , and if it is considering whether the offender qualifies for a custodial sentence for the purposes of Criminal Justice Act 1982 , s.1(4) and 1(4A) , must consider his history and attitude on the day when the original order was made . |
| 14 | The term includes : ( i ) any income chargeable to income tax by deduction at source or otherwise ( first limb ) and any income which would have been chargeable to income tax if it had been received in the United Kingdom by a person domiciled , resident and ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( second limb ) ( s681(1) ( a ) ) ; [ ( ii ) where the amount of the income of any body corporate has been apportioned ( ie shortfalled ) under Schedule 16 to FA 1972 or could have been so apportioned if the body corporate were incorporated and resident in any part of the United Kingdom , so much of the income of the body corporate for that year or period as is equal to the amount which has been or could have been so apportioned to the trustees of or a beneficiary under the settlement ( s681(1) ( b ) ) [ abolished in relation to income of bodies corporate for accounting periods beginning after 31 March 1989 by FA 1989 , Sched 17 , Part V ] ] . |
| 15 | I vividly remember the occasion when a box had not been properly secured — when poor Katy opened the bathroom door she was greeted by a scene which must have been reminiscent of the Hitchcock film The Birds with thrushes and feathers flying everywhere ! |
| 16 | There were many types of seed plants evolving throughout the late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic periods which must have been excellent sources of food . |
| 17 | This represents a major step forward in unlocking the commercial potential of our inner cities and of breathing new life into areas which may have been derelict for many years . |
| 18 | The 3M machine produced a uniform pink glow on the screen , in areas which should have been white . |
| 19 | An itch of fascination at this utterly different , aberrant creature twisted within Lexandro , into rage — at the sly , inhuman intelligence which must have been responsible for the loss of those brave champions of Humanity who now lay lifeless in caskets . |
| 20 | They lay down , and started to begin the endless discovery of the pleasure of each other , and the endless pleasure of each discovery ; while outside there was a faint , remote rumble which could have been shell-fire , or heavy traffic , or even a loose window vibrating in the wind . |
| 21 | Elsewhere the errors were more elementary — during a scene which looked suspiciously like product placement for a Canadian lager there was a continuity error which would have been embarrassing in a home-movie . |
| 22 | Assuming that the proportion of visits done in the sample between 2300 and 0700 can be applied to the whole of Berkshire , it becomes possible to estimate the number of night visits which would have been claimable by using the definition of a night visit which applied before April 1990 . |
| 23 | Taking the Side of the Other involves building upon attitudinal elements which may have been implicit previously . |
| 24 | In movements which could have been those of a somnambulist Kersey had retrieved his cigarettes and was placing one between his lips while feeling in his pockets for a lighter . |
| 25 | Massimo combined staggering conceit , total ineptitude and a winsome , self-ingratiating charm which would have been hard to take in a toddler , never mind a beefy twenty-year-old . |
| 26 | Before leaving the ministry in mid-1861 the sensible Evgraf Kovalevskii came up with a programme for reducing the volatility of the universities which might have been effective if it had been introduced gradually . |
| 27 | Two were from World War Two , but one — surrendered to a Salford police station — was a modern East European device which could have been lethal . |
| 28 | ( 3 ) Nothing in this section shall be construed as making ineffective any consent which would have been effective if this section had not been enacted . |
| 29 | … ( 3 ) Nothing in this section shall be construed as making ineffective any consent which would have been effective if this section had not been enacted . |
| 30 | obviously erm I 've ju all I 've got down here is local newspaper advertising five years which would have been enough er |