Example sentences of "[coord] [modal v] [verb] [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those hours spent with Mr. Golding are a very pleasant memory — he was always kind and must have been a nice type of man to allow a small boy to help , or should I say hinder him . |
| 2 | ( She also taught the social secretary to play the piano , but he was not an apt pupil and must have been a great disappointment to her . ) |
| 3 | Mir Jafar , who was made Nawab , had an adequate claim to the throne and might have been a good ruler under other circumstances , but it was quite clear that he was on the throne simply because the Company had decided to put him there . |
| 4 | It 's abandoned now , and might have been a huge new town if politics and economics had gone differently . " |
| 5 | This act is hardly likely to have endeared the chiefs to the Roman cause , especially if all the money had been spent , and could have been a deciding factor in the hardening of the changing attitudes in some of the royal households . |
| 6 | Even Hugh , although able to look like a jeune premier from time to time , had filled out as a result of an under-demanding marriage and a sedentary occupation , and would have been a round peg for such a small square hole . |
| 7 | She had never belonged to anything and would have been a hopeless soldier . |
| 8 | It follows that the continuing heavy costs of care at Hunstead Park would have gone on and would have been a proper claim against this defendant . |
| 9 | It means incidentally , ‘ bridge wooden shakey ’ and would have been a funny name for a station in the land of King George ! |
| 10 | Apart from his Midlands Grand National triumph in 1990 he also gained a verdict over Norton 's Coin at Cheltenham — two months before that horse 's Gold Cup success — and would have been an easy winner of the Greenall Whitley Chase but for falling when clear at the last fence . |
| 11 | It was cooked by a woman , or something that looked like a woman but could have been a giant panda . |