Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] have [been] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that Gorbachev sent the old Stalinist Andrei Gromyko to perform the pinning on of the award must have been scant compensation for what Ceauşescu probably saw as a badge of his growing servitude to Moscow . |
| 2 | The only place for his desk would have been opposite mine , with the light over his left shoulder . |
| 3 | A booking would have been sufficient punishment . |
| 4 | Another half-exception may have been Bonar Law . |
| 5 | That claim may have been sheer bravado , but given his long association with US intelligence , the general undoubtedly has enough mud to splatter many of his erstwhile US friends . |
| 6 | A purist could argue that it was class and function that set these store owners up for assault , but on the streets , in the full fury of those 48 hours , stretching from the mid-afternoon Wednesday verdict in Simi Valley , any Korean would have been fair game . |
| 7 | However , despite this evidence , prosecution would have been political suicide since the defendants might have argued that civil servants and certain government ministers knew of the oil sanctions-busting arrangements and therefore the company considered their actions , although technically illegal , were informally condoned by governmental officials . |
| 8 | A short-term contract would have been ideal experience . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | To have taken on the world in that state would have been political suicide . |
| 11 | For them , the primary concern would have been dynastic legitimacy — the installation on the throne of Israel of her rightful king and , when that failed , perpetuation of the royal bloodline intact . |
| 12 | Your sister will have been busy rehearsing , must be a hectic time for her . |
| 13 | A penalty would have been sufficient punishment . |
| 14 | In two patients the cause of anaemia may have been menstrual loss because they both settled after menstruation had stopped . |
| 15 | Moreover , Mary had a matter of her own to digest which at any other time would have been sufficient preoccupation . |
| 16 | It is generally accepted that each person , man and woman , is made up of both masculine and feminine qualities , and it appears that in some lifetimes the masculine will have been predominant while in others it will have been the feminine . |