Example sentences of "and [noun] [modal v] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Rain and Shildon might have been alone , there was no one to see or overhear them . |
| 2 | Limited supplies of fruit and vegetables must have been available , while an abundance of natural fruits and nuts could have been gathered in season , for either home consumption or for sale in the local market . |
| 3 | The huge growth of its towns and cities would have been impossible without the medical advances of these years and the action by governments , singly and in concert , which supplied new health and welfare services , and imposed new standards of health , sanitation and accommodation . |
| 4 | Bacon had little interest in English neo-romanticism and Minton would have been unable to accept Bacon 's nihilism , his insistence that man is a futile being who has to play out the game dependent not on reason but chance . |
| 5 | So I think a little more discipline and direction would have been helpful . |
| 6 | The effect of the drag reduction kit modifications on the aircraft 's pre- and post-stall behaviour could not be documented precisely but it is unlikely that their effect on the stall speed and characteristics would have been significant . |
| 7 | As to apparatus , saws were evidently effective enough to cut nephrite into the relatively thin sheets from which many archaic jades were made , and bow-drills must have been available from the beginning . |
| 8 | The cat followed her , ‘ Now I shall be late , ’ she told him , ‘ and Eleanor will have been alone . |
| 9 | UNITED STATES officials are still investigating the possibility that Iran and Syria may have been involved in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing , along with Libya , a senior US counter-terrorism specialist said on yesterday . |
| 10 | Equally , Sigibert and Guntram may have been opposed to Gundovald because he threatened their own positions . |
| 11 | On other occasions , where distinctive types of design were produced , e.g. the mosaics of type B , both client and craftsman will have been unaware of the mosaic 's wider and more general relationships . |
| 12 | Isaac and Samuel may have been rabbinical teachers themselves , as well as patrons of other teachers . |
| 13 | Mathematical ideas of space and shape and comparisons will have been involved in the making and the teacher may learn much from observation . |
| 14 | He and Nedham must have been amazed to see the new water wheels towering above them powering the pumping and winding machines , for the miners were now working well below the Grand Level , and a shaft had been put down . |
| 15 | A glossary of technical terms and abbreviations would have been useful , as would also a general bibliography . |
| 16 | She cared less than nothing for the privileges of the housewife ; the old woman could have kept the keys for ever , and Julian would have been indifferent . |
| 17 | You did not understand then and things might have been awkward . ’ |
| 18 | Of course , it was a good toss to win and things might have been different if England had batted first . |
| 19 | The proclaimed ‘ non-alignment ’ of Vietnam , Kampuchea and Laos may have been reassuring to a certain extent to the non-communist five , but neutralisation as a strategic concept had been anchored on the assumption that the Indo-Chinese war would end with the survival of non-communist , neutral regimes in South Vietnam , Kampuchea and Laos and that the overall balance of forces in Southeast Asia would remain decisively in favour of the non-communist states . |
| 20 | The marshy lands around Stirling and Bannockburn must have been inhospitable to these early settlers , but were to prove of incalculable worth to fourteenth-century patriots determined to assert their independence from southern predators . |
| 21 | To include outsiders like Kurosawa , Tarkovsky and Fellini would have been untenable . |
| 22 | Oh indeed she would , and Cathy would have been sensitive enough to appreciated the need of teeny weenies . |
| 23 | She too had been struck by the similarity between the kitten 's fur and her own hair , and Raphael would have been another subtle reminder for the future of Fen . |
| 24 | The economic ideas of the populists and SRs may have been unsophisticated . |
| 25 | Since Gundobad and Theodoric were both arian , Avitus and Cassiodorus would have been ill-placed to describe Clovis 's war as a crusade . |
| 26 | Thin layer chromatography ( TLC ) is considered in some detail ; although paper chromatography and electrophoresis would have been useful additions . |
| 27 | Someone with more experience of the rough and tumble of friendships , jealousies and animosities might have been able to dismiss Deana 's words as the unmotivated expressions of bitterness and jealousy that they were , but Belinda was inexperienced , and although she knew enough about Deana to be wary and distrustful she did not know enough to ignore her as fully as she should . |
| 28 | Motor racing , however , extends beyond the world of high-powered McLarens ' , Williams ' and Ferraris ' : Britain 's Derek Bell and Belgium 's Jacky Ickx have shown a domination of sports car racing in the last decade that Fangio , Lauda , Prost and co. would have been proud of in Formula One . |
| 29 | I know George and Steven got on well and George would have been delighted to have seen this happy day . |
| 30 | His 19th C. biographer Charles Roeder tentatively puts it at 1000 finished pictures ; and the constant flow of visitors to his annual exhibitions in Ambleside and Keswick must have been responsible for carrying his work all over Britain . |