Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [vb mod] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I know if you 'd have moved round to the other side that would have been in the shadow so you would n't have got those nice bright colours . |
| 2 | By a brilliant defence based on a clever choice of terrain that would have been beyond most of the other French generals at that time , de Castelnau saved the vital city of Nancy . |
| 3 | There was a small desk , a lined pad , a tea mug holding a pencil and two pens , a stack of train and airline schedules , and a few pieces of personal clutter that could have been in any room in the house . |
| 4 | A magazine rack overflowed with rolled newspapers : they had obviously arrived by post , but many were unopened , as though Reid had n't had time to catch up with news that must have been at least a month old . |
| 5 | The only fascination is listening to a song that should have been at most ten seconds long and hearing some fool trying to get ten minutes out of it . |
| 6 | I watched a world that should have been behind glass and yet I was the one who was behind glass and reality was theirs . |
| 7 | Therefore , if we had taken our cue from these public styles , we would have produced a top-heavy account that would have been of only marginal importance to the social ‘ life ’ of the speech community . |
| 8 | And er as I 've said before , I have n't seen a a barrel of oil burning and the heat and smoke that comes off that you consider the amount of oil that would have been in the separators on the platform at the time , I think it would have still have caused an awful lot of heat and an awful lot of smoke and fire , and er just shutting off the oil coming back to the platform maybe would n't have helped that much . |
| 9 | He broke off , regarding her warily for a moment before laughing , a hard , hollow sound accompanied by a shrug that could have been of acceptance , or resignation . |
| 10 | Nick Day , blinking blood , received a push that could have been for anybody , and went onto his knees . |