Example sentences of "[adv] have been [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very heavy Syrian casualties would apparently have been deemed a lesser price to pay than the probable failure of anything less than what the general 's men say was planned : a full-scale armoured and infantry assault involving 40,000 men on five main axes along a 50-kilometre front . |
| 2 | The single women who hitherto had been considered a good influence on the girls were relegated to obscurity whilst the married heterosexual women were left to emerge as the ( acceptable and healthy ) role models . |
| 3 | It would just have been having a good time . |
| 4 | Bowe might just have been demonstrating an innate sense of psychological testing techniques . |
| 5 | Léonie had discovered that , without ever having been taught a single rule of grammar , she spoke the language perfectly . |
| 6 | On the other hand , Major 's strategy so far has been to initiate a secret review of intelligence gathering in Northern Ireland . |
| 7 | The favoured strategy so far has been to introduce a cooling-off period before industrial action could be taken . |
| 8 | There is a dining room ( with a beautiful Italian monks ' table dating from the early 18th century which interestingly has been lowered a few inches — the monks ate standing up ) , three bedrooms individually decorated , a comfortable study-cum-television room with a log-burning stove — and for bookworms , over 3,000 books . |
| 9 | ‘ Making Their Mark ’ could equally well have been called a mixed exhibition ; but this is a term more often used for a show put on by an exhibiting society , that type of artists ' organisation whose importance in Europe was created by the middle classes , who sought in the eighteenth century to buy pictures rather than give commissions , as aristocratic patrons had been accustomed to do . |
| 10 | It is recognised however that some reference to a version may be worthwhile , in that the producer of a module may well have been using a specific version of a referenced module during initial design . |
| 11 | He might as well have been devising a new war game . |
| 12 | He might well have been working a small place on his own behalf . |
| 13 | At first the glare from Lucifer — extending beyond Moloch 's ice-locked horizon , and reflecting from Belial high above — turned the depths of space into a flat black backdrop that could just as well have been suspended a few feet in front of her eyes . |
| 14 | Maidstone 's face displayed what could almost have been called a mischievous grin . |
| 15 | So , Mavis at least had been getting a good earful . |
| 16 | Patients nationwide have been promised a guaranteed service including an ambulance within 14 minutes in urban areas and 19 minutes in rural areas . |
| 17 | Patients nationwide have been promised an improved service , including an ambulance within 14 minutes in urban areas and 19 minutes in rural areas . |
| 18 | She said that apart from MacQuillan and Barron she did not know who else had been allowed a complete list . |