Example sentences of "his [noun] [modal v] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reader can judge for himself whether his comprehension would have been fuller if he had known this topic . |
| 2 | Although he has provoked a strong reaction among a sector of the community where one would have thought his support would have been strongest , Father Morrow is still determined to press on with his case . |
| 3 | Much of the material on which the Home Secretary is likely to base his decision will have been available to the prisoner at his trial : the evidence , both for and against him , any reports considered by the court , and remarks in mitigation made on his behalf ( as is now the practice ) . |
| 4 | His words might have been ambiguous , but the hackles rose on Rory 's neck as if he 'd been blatantly insulting . |
| 5 | Mr Salam , 84 , a Sunni Muslim , is the most impressive of Lebanon 's dying breed of elder statesmen , but his words could have been those of a much younger man . |
| 6 | His research must have been immense . |
| 7 | Then this would never have happened , or if it had ( I could n't bring myself to unwish an experience which still washed over me with waves of delight when I remembered it ) at least Toby would have known what he was doing , his eyes would have been open . |
| 8 | His dilemma would have been similar , in some ways , to that which faced the coachman Jean Hornn when the latter finally came up to the town in the berline dormeuse and attempted to skirt it to avoid the encumbrances with which the road was choked ( see Part 1 ) . |
| 9 | Had Aldous Huxley introduced a sub-plot into Brave New World , where the remains of a dead man were cannibalised to save the lives of 50 strangers , only for them to succumb to a lethal virus hidden in his tissues , his readers would have been impressed by the fertility of his futuristic imagination . |
| 10 | Had he known what advice was reaching the tsar in St Petersburg , his anxiety would have been greater still . |
| 11 | The only place for his desk would have been opposite mine , with the light over his left shoulder . |
| 12 | His reaction might have been enough to make her call a halt to the whole thing . |
| 13 | Michael Fallon believes his intervention would have been crucial in landing the £100m scheme by U.S. firm KimberlyClark . |
| 14 | His principles may have been those of the past , but his virtues were those of the new governments of Europe : common sense , ability , efficiency . |
| 15 | Within a week the big machines had moved in , and that corner of his parish could have been one of thousands of others in modern England — any place , anywhere . |
| 16 | Many readers of his apologetics must have been disconcerted by me fact that his chapter about conversion in Beyond Personality is entitled ‘ Let's Pretend ’ . |
| 17 | They were quietly fond of each other , and in the bungalow Rory went on often in a way his friends would have been surprised by , a TV and slippers man , or sharing the crossword with his Mam . |
| 18 | His constitution was delicate , and the strain on his health would have been considerable . |
| 19 | Taken together this evidence indicates 675–704 for the reign of Aethelred and makes reasonable the conclusion that Wulfhere did not reign seventeen years but died in his seventeenth year , so that his reign will have been 659–75 . |
| 20 | His injuries would have been worse but for Territorial Army training supervisor Mr Colin Wilberforce , who risked his life to drag Mr Samson away before the grenade exploded . |
| 21 | Because Marx never did write this anthropological work , it is futile to speculate too much on how his position would have been different from that of Engels . |
| 22 | He said that the doctor seemed to think Sigarup would be all right — although his chances would have been better if they 'd brought him sooner . |
| 23 | His clothes would have been blood-stained . |
| 24 | There were times when Blackadder allowed himself to see clearly that he would end his working life , that was to say his conscious thinking life , in this task , that all his thoughts would have been another man 's thoughts , all his work another man 's work . |
| 25 | His salary should have been adequate , with the perquisites of office , and though salaries were often not paid promptly , he seems never to have been in need . |
| 26 | In another year , at almost any other time , Adam would have touched his father or more probably his mother for a loan , but in June 1976 his father was barely speaking to him , and his mother would have been scared to go against her husband . |
| 27 | There is an apparent acceptance of format i.e. little conscious manipulation of the elements under consideration : affinities are attributable , therefore , to developments of which the mosaicist and his client might have been oblivious . |
| 28 | Yes I did er I sh I wo n't say the exact words but they were words to the effect that er that I was sorry , that I understood and appreciated that er erm his family would have been terrified by the experience . |
| 29 | A hundred of these were ambushed by Corporal Aitken , unfortunately ahead of the platoon or his bag might have been greater . |
| 30 | We know Sir Thomas drank the poisoned cup inside the room and not at the banquet , otherwise his death would have been public and in company . ’ |