Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first place , although non-convertible bank notes may have been a new element , many — perhaps most — commercial transactions had long depended on paper bills rather than value-for-weight coin . |
| 2 | Indeed , the fact that serious crime was often punished by confiscation of all the malefactor 's possessions must have been a sore temptation , and doubtless tended to prejudice kings towards verdicts of guilty . |
| 3 | The first fourteen hours must have been the worst of the journey as I was not able to sleep , whatever position I sat in . |
| 4 | Both dorsals must have been a good twelve inches clear of the water . |
| 5 | I suppose my eyes must have been a little red . |
| 6 | The giant herbivorous dinosaurs would have been the first to go , as plant matter became scarce , but they would soon be followed by the large carnivores that had preyed upon them . |
| 7 | Woodcuts would have been an interesting addition to Leapor 's second volume , and in themselves would serve as evidence on how she was understood by her contemporaries . |
| 8 | These large birds could have been the original dispersal agents . |
| 9 | The other story I recall to mind about this time is that Cranwell in those days must have been the coldest spot south of the Arctic Circle and the ration of coal to fire the single stove in a billet of 22 erks took little account of the temporary hutment , Some genius had laid down that the ration of coal would he 1lb of coal every other day was sufficient to ward off armies of brass monkeys that descended on Cranwell in winter . |
| 10 | ‘ En souvenir de ’ ( ‘ in memory of ’ ) might seem to imply that Jenny and Mme Vidal were dead , but a collection of jolly harpsichord pieces would have been an odd way to memorialize them . |
| 11 | Matchsticks would have been the last one at the Pessarane Behesht camp he would have chosen to accompany him on this mission . |
| 12 | Antislavery ideology in its economic features may have been an attractive persuasion for paradoxical reasons . |
| 13 | ‘ Captaining the Lions would have been a lovely honour , and obviously I 'm disappointed , but I 'm delighted just to have been selected . |
| 14 | In this way , new requests for credit may run up against a powerful and undeniably sensible combination of background knowledge and personal experience which rules them out , even when the applicant whose personal circumstances ring these alarm bells would have been a satisfactory payer . |
| 15 | It is considered that the plain wings may have been a regimental design . |
| 16 | Such decisions must have been the daily stuff of lordship , but they are now usually only visible in the formal context of legal disputes . |
| 17 | Such decisions must have been the daily stuff of lordship , but they are now usually only visible in the formal context of legal disputes . |
| 18 | The data presented here also imply that before any conclusions are drawn on biological effects obtained through point mutations in tRNAs , it should be investigated if the base-modification pattern was altered and if such alterations might have been the primary cause of the biological observed effect . |
| 19 | In other words , the original Sadducees would have been a devout dynastic priesthood closely associated with at least the principle of an expected Davidic Messiah . |
| 20 | If the neutrons had been produced by thermonuclear fusion in a stationary plasma the neutrons ' energy spectra would have been the same in both cases , peaked at 2.45 MeV . |
| 21 | If that had been done by a chief inspector of a Labour local authority for a Labour think tank , Conservative Members would have been the first on their feet to complain about Mr. Burchall . |
| 22 | On chalk subsoil an accumulation of water in holes and pits may have been a severe problem making timber ‘ halls ’ the more popular structure . |
| 23 | However , they went on to comment that the assumed riskless rate of 6 per cent in Part 1 of the results may have been an over estimate , as Part II shows only the first 2 factors to be significant while the fifth factor lost all explanatory power . |
| 24 | It has been argued that the jobs thereby created do not fit the aspirations of local residents and also perpetuate low incomes , since low wages may have been the initial attraction to employers . |
| 25 | That the most northerly of the Anglian kings should have been the first non-Kentish ruler to adopt Christianity in the 620s is , at the very least , surprising . |
| 26 | ‘ One of those guys could have been the next Courtney Pine . ’ |
| 27 | His daughters , as though obedient to some unspoken command , grouped themselves around him in what in older children could have been a conscious gesture of family solidarity . |
| 28 | After so many forced cancellations over the years , it was a rare joy to welcome this vigorous , athletic figure back to conduct the LPO in what with most conductors would have been a run-of-the-mill Festival Hall programme , but which with Tennstedt in charge became an exhilarating drive . |
| 29 | Whilst the major focus in their campaigns may have been the declining centrality of the Church , the other major reformist concern is explicitly with the family and , by implication at least , with women and youth . |
| 30 | Can not the right hon. Gentleman accept that the Para battalions should have been the last to be cut , and that , if cuts must be made , they should be made on the basis of operational effectiveness , not political expediency ? |