Example sentences of "have [been] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been mailed a few days ago , with a second class stamp . |
| 2 | It must have been said a thousand times in angling literature that location is the key to success and in zander fishing this was never more so . |
| 3 | On going into the line for the first time , Jubert 's colonel gave the officers of his regiment instructions that must have been repeated a thousand times at Verdun : |
| 4 | I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea . |
| 5 | Over ninety states have accepted the obligation not to acquire nuclear arms under the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty ; although this treaty has not prevented the detonation of a nuclear device by India and the covert acquisition of nuclear capacity also by Israel and South Africa , the total list of nuclear powers is relatively small , and perhaps less than may have been predicted a few years ago . |
| 6 | At first the glare from Lucifer — extending beyond Moloch 's ice-locked horizon , and reflecting from Belial high above — turned the depths of space into a flat black backdrop that could just as well have been suspended a few feet in front of her eyes . |