Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [modal v] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1867 Bagehot may have been able to write that ‘ a republic has insinuated itself beneath the folds of a Monarchy ’ ( 1965/1867 : 94 ) . |
| 2 | By Friday , after four days of being enthused at , confused , intrigued and occasionally feeling rather excited , the 800 delegates must have been glad to think of one computerised future that was just different rather than scary . |
| 3 | She knew of at least one reason why each of these six women would have been glad to see Handsome Henry dead . |
| 4 | The initiating event in these three cases may have been technical , but the persistent fistulas are probably related to underlying Crohn 's disease . |
| 5 | If he had done so , the second the third of the three matters would have been irrelevant . |
| 6 | ‘ A company which has grown in the past two or three years may have been unable to move to larger premises , partly because it has been unable to pass on its present lease . |
| 7 | Those with a proportion of gold amounting to from a quarter to three quarters must have been intentional alloys . |
| 8 | This was not at all unreasonable but , looking at the full deal , you can see that Three No-Trumps would have been easy . |
| 9 | Channel 4 chiefs will have been delighted with the feast they served British viewers . |
| 10 | To have left the tube and drain in place for 14–21 days would have been ideal but less acceptable to the patient . |
| 11 | The two ADF receivers were working in the ADF mode at the time of the crash , though the No 1 unit may have been subject to intermittent electrical interruptions due to poorly soldered joints . |
| 12 | ‘ Zero incidents would have been better , ’ said Malcolm Hartley , the site safety adviser , ‘ and this is our target for 1993 , but only one incident throughout the year is extremely good news and could not have been achieved without the strong commitment for safe working shared by the site 's work-force ’ . |
| 13 | For instance , the descent of one brother may have been prolific , the other 's attenuated ; and it might be imagined that the smaller group would create less fear of reprisals in the hearts of the stronger . |
| 14 | Another haemorrhage at 25,000 feet would have been disastrous . |
| 15 | The shire and hundred meetings may have been able to exercise some kind of control over this , although a king who allowed himself and his servants too much leeway would have been difficult to oppose directly . |
| 16 | A working week of over a hundred hours should have been ruinous for the libido , looking back . |
| 17 | As an agency working in the field of community development , the past two years should have been optimistic ones for Falls Community Council , as new money pumped through BAT has been made available to us and the groups we work for and with . |
| 18 | They seemed to agree that £275,000 spread over four years would have been hard to ignore . |
| 19 | She made it sound as if the two things should have been similar . |
| 20 | Erm I I know it was in the context of a a question you posed to him that er if he had in fact er accepted the County Council 's housing figures er that would have been an appropriate hundred and twenty two hectares would have been appropriate er on the employment side . |
| 21 | She told them about ‘ Factota Limited ’ , and asked their advice — and no two people could have been kinder . |
| 22 | Second , the growing belief that two people must have been involved in things , quite certainly in the murder . |
| 23 | The structure of the databases in terms of input and output formats must have been identical or similar but this did not seem to be sufficiently argued , instead the plaintiff concentrated on an argument that the structure of the two programs must have been similar . |
| 24 | From the middle schools , because of the limited size of the initial sample , thirty non-respondents would have been impossible to obtain . |