Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [be] [art] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gameplay should have been a lot more action-packed . |
| 2 | It was difficult for the older people , they should have been a lot more thoughtful how they separated people for the houses . |
| 3 | We always see that aspect , but we forget that first he must have been a warrior too . |
| 4 | It must have been a relief when trams were never once mentioned at his Blackpool interview ! |
| 5 | It is only now clear to me that in actual fact it must have been a day later . |
| 6 | There must have been a time when each of these practices ceased to be tolerable and reasonable behaviour . |
| 7 | For example , his eyes were necessary for the finding of food and the locating of enemies , to name but two of many purely necessary functions , but there must have been a time when he first began to enjoy the visual beauty all around him . |
| 8 | There must have been a time when we did n't quarrel , when we were just content to be together . |
| 9 | I suppose there must have been a time when it was n't like this ? ’ |
| 10 | Erm , so er , there must have been a situation where he was discovered , that it was possible to split the atom , basically . |
| 11 | In the end , it must have been a week later , he rang me up again one evening at Caroline 's . |
| 12 | He appeared slight standing next to the sergeant major , although he must have been a shade over six feet himself . |
| 13 | There must have been a moment when Juliet had shown some spark of individuality which he failed to foster . |
| 14 | The Walsingham was in Piccadilly , on the site now occupied by the Ritz ; from the Colonel 's description of the panelling of inlaid woods , the white pillars and cornices touched with gold , the curtains of deep crimson velvet , the ceiling of little cupids floating in roseate clouds , the dining-room must have been every bit as ravishing as the pink and white Louis XVI restaurant which succeeded it and which , under the direction of César Ritz , became synonymous with all that was elegant , rich and glamorous in the early years of this century . |
| 15 | Must have been the year before you did it then . |
| 16 | This must have been the result partly of the astonishing scale of the royal demand and partly of the absence of any prior diocesan discussion . |
| 17 | We did walk somewhere one time and erm very very nice the it must have been the time when the salmon were riverside walk . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , if it was intended as a distraction , then that must have been the moment when he poisoned his wife . |
| 19 | The second is that , in fact , direct democracy could be a great deal more widely practised than it actually is , and that some modern technological developments have made it easier to implement than it might have been a century ago . |
| 20 | ( You 'd think he might have been a bit more careful — after all , this was n't happening in the Dark Ages before birth control was invented . ) |
| 21 | Coming up , which would have been more serious , maybe , cos it meant there might have been a break somewhere or |
| 22 | ‘ That might have been the case once , but now we produce perfectly good coaches ourselves , and I 'm concerned the incentive will disappear if administrators continue to look only to Australia . ’ |
| 23 | Not only that , he concentrated his attack purely on enclosures as a cause of depopulation , and by so doing both failed to consider how far enclosures might have been the result rather than the cause , and omitted to mention a related question , that of the ‘ engrossing ’ or accumulation of farms by a single owner . |
| 24 | The applicant sought relief on the grounds that ( 1 ) at the time the coroner took his original decision there was considerable evidence before him that the death would not have occurred but for delays experienced by the deceased 's family in contacting the ambulance service and later delays by the ambulance service in responding to repeated calls by the police for an ambulance to come to take the deceased to hospital as a matter of urgency ; ( 2 ) in reaching the conclusion that an inquest was unnecessary the coroner had misdirected himself in law for the reasons , inter alia , that ( i ) section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 required a coroner to hold an inquest where there was ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the deceased had died a ‘ violent or unnatural death ; ’ ( ii ) there had been clear and uncontradicted evidence before the coroner that avoidable and culpable delays by the ambulance service might have been the reason why the deceased 's asthma attack , which could have been treated in hospital , proved fatal , giving rise to a ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the cause of the deceased 's death was ‘ unnatural ; ’ and ( iii ) against that background , the coroner had erred in law in treating the pathologist 's conclusion as conclusive and had either misdirected himself as to the meaning of ‘ unnatural death ’ in section 8 of the Coroners Act 1988 or failed to apply the law properly to the facts of the case . |
| 25 | With his pointed chin , he might have been an elf out of story-land . |
| 26 | There might have been an improvement earlier with an expansion of the German economy , but that is now being deflated . |
| 27 | Okay you covered all that okay yeah erm I think the objection bit you could 've been a bit better on that one erm cos that was quite a sort of bad one , well you 're not too sure about sort of giving his name or his telephone number out |
| 28 | For a moment , it could have been a second only , he sat rigidly gazing down at his clasped hands . |
| 29 | It was very good actually , the weather could have been a bit better but erm thanks very much for arranging it , it went very well . |
| 30 | But you know , I felt like saying , well , you know he could have been a bit more considerate and concerned when we were actually going out with each other ! |