Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the more odd , then , that yesterday 's funeral should have been both a celebration of time-honoured Tembu ritual and the most vocal demonstration in years on what the rest of the world calls South African soil of the strength of the ANC and its far from tribalistic affiliate , the South African Communist Party . |
| 2 | Any tenderness between the two of them would be a sham as far as he was concerned , merely serving to emphasise the absence of love , and perhaps like her he felt that a relationship characterised by so much other feeling ought to be loving as well , that the depth of desire he felt for her should have been merely a facet of love instead of the whole . |
| 3 | I 'm sure it must have been rather a strain to keep pretending an interest in a boring little milliner from Mannheim . ’ |
| 4 | He did n't actually live in St Aldate 's , but he must have been here a lot , because he was mayor in 1636 , he was an alderman erm he was very much a leading in the city , and I think the leader of the opposition to Royal Policies . |
| 5 | Well that must have been just a bus going . |
| 6 | He must have been up a tree . |
| 7 | Receiving the Order of Lenin from Gorbachev 's men must have been almost a humiliation for Ceauşescu on his seventieth birthday in 1988 . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose it must have been about a quarter past eight . |
| 9 | ‘ Mixed marriage ’ seems such an outdated expression nowadays but at the turn of the century it must have been quite a sacrifice for both of them to make . |
| 10 | It must have been quite a shock when he turned up on the doorstep . ’ |
| 11 | It must have been quite a shock for you all of a sudden to be dealing with millions of pounds on the budget . |
| 12 | is very clever to have got his weight down , and an 11-mile orienteering course at Silverdale must have been quite a testing expedition . |
| 13 | Well that must have been quite a mess . |
| 14 | Our press date prevents us giving details of this run but it must have been quite a spectacle if it went ahead as reported , and would have provided a fitting finale to an outstanding season of operations . |
| 15 | It must have been quite a spectacle though when the first combine came |
| 16 | It must have been quite a crash . |
| 17 | She 'd been writing for the NME , about David Cassidy and things like that but it must have been quite a struggle to get by . |
| 18 | She must have been quite a joker with that bantam on her head , pigeons fluttering noisily on her shoulders ; it had all been wonderful outdoor fun . |
| 19 | That must have been quite a bible lesson . |
| 20 | It must have been half a minute before Luke said in a scathing drawl , ‘ Find out ? |
| 21 | Also , half a capful might have been rather a lot , weight for weight . |
| 22 | ‘ A busy night , ’ said Stan , and it might have been either a statement or a question . |
| 23 | The main reason , main thing is presuming that there must have been refreshments for all these people , probably might have been just a buffet or cup of coffee , or I expect there was probably a lunch laid on , I want to know who footed the bill for the lunch ? |
| 24 | Elena received a fee for permission to purchase what was by Romanian standards a luxurious limousine , even if in the West the car might have been only a family saloon . |
| 25 | ‘ It could have been just a bush moving in the breeze . |
| 26 | I doubt whether this implied anything lurid ; it may have been just a consultation . |
| 27 | He said : ‘ It may have been simply a moment of despair and nothing more than that . |
| 28 | The slight increase of residual activity associated with Barrett 's oesophagus may have been partly a result of the uptake of isotype by the Barrett mucosa , and this residual activity did not interfere with calculation of the transit indices . |
| 29 | This role may have been rather a disappointment to both sides , as General Gallagher said when he got back from Hanoi , although by opposing the clearance of wartime US mines that had been laid in Haiphong harbour , thus preventing an early return of French troopships , Gallagher seems to have come down rather heavily on the Vietminh side . |
| 30 | He was a North-countryman , and the bluntness of his approach to many issues should be considered , I think , as a traditional North-country attitude , exaggerated at times to the point of obtuseness ; it may have been merely a defence mechanism . |