Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [modal v] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A short-term contract would have been ideal experience . ’ |
| 2 | Some faint impressions on the inside of the dermal skeleton suggest that at least paired nasal sacs may have been present ( unlike in modern hagfishes ) . |
| 3 | That patience must have been well-schooled here , and I would need lots of it myself if I was to follow her tracks from card to cryptic card through all the boxes . |
| 4 | That pull may have been stronger in the past than today . |
| 5 | It followed that the Court of Appeal could not substitute a term of three years ' detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) , despite the fact that that sentence would have been available to the sentencer in the Crown Court , as there was an effective sentence in place . |
| 6 | It is interesting that the Bank of Ireland spokesman who gave that figure should have been specific , as members will be aware that many figures have been rumoured over the past couple of months . |
| 7 | Isolated in the middle of the pacific Ocean , 3,200 miles from Tahiti , and with a sea-crossing of almost a month stretching out before him to the next port of call , Darwin 's stay in this inhospitable volcanic outcrop must have been one of the lowest points for him on the entire trip . |
| 8 | That run/shot would have been impossible from anywhere BUT the centre of the pitch ( he would have been running across goal and also towards defenders . |
| 9 | Frere 's thanksgiving for his wife 's recovery was heartfelt , for that loss would have been irreparable ; and his rejoicing at her return was genuine enough ; but how short-lived . |
| 10 | The prognostic value of this parameter might have been higher if the follow up of our patients had been longer , since some of the patients with high upper crypt labelling indeces who did not relapse might have experienced later recurrences . |
| 11 | The continuance of large-scale English resistance may have been unlikely , but there were sources of danger to be neutralised . |
| 12 | So West Indies won by an innings and 156 runs ; yet had England managed to hold on for just another three or four minutes they would have got a draw , for the heavens opened and further play would have been impossible . |
| 13 | A marriage between foreign nationals from different countries and of different religions would have been difficult enough in settled times , but it was rendered much more complicated now by the fact that whatever my family 's record might have been with regard to the Fascist party , my mother , my father and I were enemy aliens who had just lost a war . |
| 14 | English copies would have been available in Europe and mention of distribution in the new American Colonies has been made , so it was an internationally known work by the latter part of the eighteenth century . |
| 15 | The French felt that the existing structure of power was illegitimate , and a clear majority would have been prepared to see an extension of worker control over management 's powers of decision … |
| 16 | A subordinate might therefore make a well-informed decision to win a short-term advantage when a different decision would have been preferable in the longer-term view . |
| 17 | This route would have been wishful thinking to the classical organic chemist hut the reaction proceeds readily in the presence of rhodium , one of the rarest metals , and of iodine , which act together as a catalyst system . |
| 18 | This decision would have been complicated by the fact that Albert is also the part-owner of La Hollandaise . |
| 19 | Like Hutton in bygone times , Stewart seemed galvanised by the disasters occurring at the other end , but was never either intimidated into strokelessness or tempted into a reckless rescue bid , for such an endeavour against this bowling would have been futile . |
| 20 | A spokesman admitted some personnel may have been unhappy with a process of ‘ radical ’ change , but insisted : ‘ The vast majority of people would not have recognised the description in that article . ’ |
| 21 | The consequence was that , deducting three years from eight , the proper sentence would have been five years : that sentence would be imposed . |
| 22 | Bearing in mind the provocation , and the fact that the offender had to face the prospect of being sentenced a second time , the sentence was far too lenient , and a proper sentence would have been two years ' immediate imprisonment : that sentence would be substituted . |
| 23 | However , the collection of this variety must have been considerable : Collinson noted on the back of a print of the Magnolia grandiflora flower in his copy of Catesby 's Natural History of Carolina , that there were twenty-nine of these trees at Goodwood in 1759 , two of them twenty feet high . |
| 24 | This election must have been one of the last in Scotland where open bribery took place . |
| 25 | The significant results achieved using this text may have been specific to this domain and hence not necessarily repeatable in other domains ( i.e. the OALD may provide unusually good coverage of commercial or financial terminology ) . |
| 26 | All the buildings were well constructed and with adequate maintenance would have been capable of surviving for many generations . |
| 27 | Some readers may have been shocked that one professor of English should thus refer to another , but these are robust times . |
| 28 | ‘ The collection I showed this spring would have been unthinkable three years ago — so many dresses , so much evening wear . |
| 29 | Some tabulation would have been useful . |
| 30 | Considering the number of PFK readers who would like to see their Puffers inflate just once ( though arguably as a sign of stress this is n't such a great idea ) many marine fishkeepers would have been thrilled . |