Example sentences of "which [noun] [modal v] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a piece of fancy footwork of which Gekko would have been proud , America 's fat cats have capped a record year by undermining President-Elect Bill Clinton 's plans to soak the rich , before he has even set foot in the White House . |
| 2 | Lord Acton gave it expression for the first time in 1887 , in a letter which Tolkien might have been interested enough to read — it is in a strongly anti-Papal context . |
| 3 | He visited Exeter in June 1313 to choose timber for the bishop 's throne there , made with characteristic details for which Witney must have been responsible . |
| 4 | Theorists who reflect about the ways in which things might have been different are bound to consider the question of what might have made events take another course . |
| 5 | To justify his view that there are ways in which things might have been different while at the same time avoiding voluntarism , Poulantzas argues that there are two sources of valid counterfactuals . |
| 6 | ( The parallelism of the three statements is interrupted by the different form of the third , and the particular words used for male and female , which are not those which one would expect , are the same as those which the Septuagint — the Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures with which Paul would have been familiar — uses in the Genesis verse. ) 34 If this is the case , then Paul is in effect saying that the subordination , which owes to the fall , is overcome in Christ , the second Adam . |
| 7 | This was TV 's first half-hour news bulletin , and something of which Pilkington could have been proud , since research had shown in 1966 that 83 per cent of viewers were perfectly content with the traditional fifteen minutes at 8.55 pm . |