Example sentences of "it [vb mod] have [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , subsequent archaeologists proved him mistaken , seeing in Machu Picchu an important agricultural centre serving Cuzco ; others speculated that it may have been a religious centre , where handmaidens for the sun god lived . |
| 2 | It may have been a teetotal , chapel-going household but do n't imagine it was ever narrow-minded or lacked a sense of fun . |
| 3 | It may have been a vain hope . |
| 4 | It may have been a controversial church , but its image as a party church dates only from about 1977 when Vanguard disappeared and unionist politics became a straight fight between the Officials and the DUP . |
| 5 | AD 10 at this particular place ; it seems to have had a brief existence ; it may have been a Political embarrassment to Cunobelinus at some stage in his early career , or the traders may have just moved elsewhere . |
| 6 | It may have been a traditional marriage , gift , given to couples to bring them good luck . |
| 7 | It may have been a bogus call … we will just have to wait and see . ’ |
| 8 | It may have been a recurrent nova , and although it is probably unlikely that it will ever come within binocular range , if it reappears at all , there is no harm in looking for it . |
| 9 | Although it may have been a convenient way of getting her out of the country , this also indicates that Ælfgifu had previously enjoyed a recognised position . |
| 10 | It may have been a glamorous enough life on stage and , despite the famous Tiller ethos , at the stage door , where the young lads who laid siege to the girls came to be known as Stage Door Johnnies . |
| 11 | At its worst it may have been a parasitic racket representing only itself to the detriment of all , but on the larger canvas of society it gave political power to a narrow group of substantial landowners in loose alliance with merchant princes and the small towns which returned members to Parliament . |
| 12 | IT SHOULD have been a good week . |
| 13 | It should have been a new beginning , a clean slate but , as she rode out the following morning , her head clouded from lack of sleep , Kelly knew that life was never that easy . |
| 14 | It was a beautiful day with small cumulus clouds and about thirty miles visibility , and it should have been a great experience , but unfortunately I felt deadly sick all the way and could hardly bear to look out . |
| 15 | IT SHOULD have been a great year for Julie Walters . |
| 16 | Given his abilities and his natural desire to go into space , it should have been a logical extension of his career to graduate from the Air Force into the Space Programme . |
| 17 | It should have been a simple matter to check , but the dosimeters for measuring radioactivity were locked in a safe and the panel in the control room was dead . |
| 18 | However , whereas it should have been a joyous occasion , it was not . |
| 19 | When I got home I found , among the mountain of letters ( mainly telling me I had filled in a blue form when it should have been a yellow one or asking for information I had already given ) , one from the BBC asking me to get in touch with the Punters office in Bristol as soon as possible . |
| 20 | Ideally , it should have been a dense foggy night with the sound of distant police whistles piercing the gloom . |
| 21 | I would have thought it should have been a national effort . |
| 22 | It must have been a testing time for the boffins at the Telecommunications Research Establishment ( TRE ) at Malvern to find an operational RAF pilot in their midst , competing with them and reducing by months the time-scale normally associated with getting things done . |
| 23 | Just beyond Fort Augustus a trace of their road may still be found ; now impassable , it must have been a fearful route : the climb up to any height of it is ferociously demanding — or else I hit it at the wrong spot . |
| 24 | It must have been a savage attack ; Boswell had offended Johnson 's pride and held him up to ridicule ; now Johnson retaliated with such force that Boswell says , ‘ though I can bear such attacks as well as most men , I yet found myself so much the sport of all the company , that I would gladly expunge from my mind every trace of this severe retort . ’ |
| 25 | It must have been a long summer holiday because I managed to be there both for the haymaking and the harvest . |
| 26 | It must have been a long time ago . |
| 27 | It must have been a long day for a boy of that age . |
| 28 | In its heyday it must have been a good little vehicle , but now it was definitely finished . |
| 29 | ‘ Better get moving , ’ he thought He stopped as he turned Had he imagined it , no , he was sure something had flashed in the moonlight It must have been a good quarter of a mile away , towards the middle of the estuary . |
| 30 | We get out of the car , stomp round to the wheel , look at it , kick it , swear , look at our watch , feel guilty about not having left enough time to cope with the unexpected , open the boot , bang our head on it , swear again , wonder whether it would n't be better to walk to the phone , decide to change the wheel ourselves , lose one of the nuts and eventually arrive at the meeting half an hour late in a filthy temper , and take up the next five minutes explaining that it must have been a sharp chipping off one of those construction lorries and they overload them to save money and they ought to do something about it … |