Example sentences of "the [noun] [modal v] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's too late to argue now that the forms should have been available earlier . |
| 2 | Korea 's choice of shipbuilding shortly before the shipbuilding and especially the tanker market virtually collapsed in the mid-1970s could have been disastrous . |
| 3 | That Atlantis was discussed in the Timaeus may have been significant , but it was not crucial . |
| 4 | The Pentagon would have been furious at losing an agent as well as a major mission , but there was little or nothing it could say or do to put things right without acknowledging that Coleman was an agent and thereby admitting that , for the better part of two years , the DIA had been spying , not on the country 's official enemies , but on other agencies of the United States government . |
| 5 | This is because the profit function before the change must have been horizontal at the optimum , so a small change in the optimum price will make only a marginal difference to the firms ' profits . |
| 6 | Even for an experienced choreographer , the suspense could have been hair-raising . |
| 7 | While not present at an event , the writer may have been able to use his own detailed sources which are no longer available — or the writer may have relied on hearsay . |
| 8 | The fact that Gorbachev sent the old Stalinist Andrei Gromyko to perform the pinning on of the award must have been scant compensation for what Ceauşescu probably saw as a badge of his growing servitude to Moscow . |
| 9 | The judge told him that the sentence would have been longer if his victim had been permanently scarred . |
| 10 | The sentence could have been higher . ’ |
| 11 | Above all , whoever occupied the throne would have been subject to the powerful pressure that Nicholas experienced from the United Nobility , the Orthodox Church and reactionary leaders of the Right . |
| 12 | Thus in Mercantile Credit v. Hamblin ( paragraph 5–07 above ) , if Mrs. Hamblin had authorised or agreed to the trader filling in the proposal form , the result of the case would have been different . |
| 13 | Above this surface the hydrogen would have been gaseous , and below it the hydrogen would have been liquid : Jupiter would have thus been covered in hydrogen oceans . |
| 14 | Above this surface the hydrogen would have been gaseous , and below it the hydrogen would have been liquid : Jupiter would have thus been covered in hydrogen oceans . |
| 15 | Before the amendments made by the Copyright ( Computer Programs ) Regulations 1992 , there was no such provision although the courts may have been prepared to imply an appropriate term into a software licence where the making of a back-up copy was reasonably necessary to the use of the program in question . |
| 16 | With intelligent programming , the computer should have been able to recognise either that this particular customer needed an overdraft or that he has probably just become redundant and that mortgage repayment might soon present a problem . |
| 17 | Had it been severable , i.e. if it had been the sale of separate lots to be separately paid for , then presumably the contract would have been void only as to those lots which were not complete at the time of the contract . |
| 18 | The decision may have been harsh , however , because it appeared he had not heard the whistle . |
| 19 | The music panellist said : ‘ If there had been a full panel meeting and if we had known certain things which were kept from us the decision might have been different . |
| 20 | For example , if it is thought that an error of law or fact or a breach of natural justice should justify quashing only if it can be said that but for the error or breach the decision would have been different , this should be built into the definition of the relevant ground of review and not dealt with as a matter of remedial discretion . |
| 21 | This case dealt with a life interest in possession overseas trust which was presumed to be governed by a trust law similar to that in the United Kingdom ( otherwise the decision would have been different ( see Garland v Archer-Shee ( 1931 ) 15 TC 693 ) ) . |
| 22 | The nuns , therefore , had no opportunity to determine whether the Ministry could have been wrong , she said . |
| 23 | After its turbid passage through the twin cities the Ankh could have been one of them . |
| 24 | He says that if there had been a bit less water in the river the wave would have been bigger . |
| 25 | The wave must have been fifteen feet high . |
| 26 | This magazine , the readers of the Guardian will have been appalled to discover , is plagued by ‘ young men from Coopers & Lybrand in striped shirts looking suspiciously at cartoons for excess intelligence . ’ |
| 27 | Abbott C.J. , with whom Bayley J. agreed on this point , said the payment might have been voluntary if the parties had stood on equal terms , and continued , at p. 735 : |
| 28 | Perhaps if he had met them after the confidence gained by a successful tour of India in 1976–7 , when his captaincy was much praised , the story might have been different . |
| 29 | The story might have been different but for the Vietnam War . |
| 30 | Patients were chained up , and the noise would have been incredible . |