Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] have [been] a [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 | Both dorsals must have been a good twelve inches clear of the water . |
| 4 | I suppose my eyes must have been a little red . |
| 5 | ‘ Captaining the Lions would have been a lovely honour , and obviously I 'm disappointed , but I 'm delighted just to have been selected . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is considered that the plain wings may have been a regimental design . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | On chalk subsoil an accumulation of water in holes and pits may have been a severe problem making timber ‘ halls ’ the more popular structure . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Publishing the old figures compiled from Job Centres , said Mr Hibbert , alongside the new ones might have been a good idea just to show how misleading the old ones had been . |
| 13 | The Derby was the first time Nijinsky started at odds against — and if his full background story had been known , the odds would have been a good deal longer . |
| 14 | If the object is to encourage mothers to stay at home , the use of child benefits would have been a superior policy . |
| 15 | In the circumstances victory for the hosts would have been a fitting reward for their extraordinary dedication to the game and its very traditional amateur roots . |
| 16 | A hospital spokeswoman said : ‘ The bacteria may have been a contributing factor in these deaths . |
| 17 | THE CAPTAIN had had what for ordinary mortals would have been a trying two days . |