Example sentences of "have [been] [num] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , the number of those who believed that Hitler would have been one of the greatest German statesmen of all time had it not been for the war remained relatively high , though this figure too had fallen sharply ( from 48 per cent in 1955 to 32 per cent by 1967 ) . |
| 2 | This day should have been one of the best days of her life , the start of her search . |
| 3 | The Texas prison system may well have been one of the fastest expanding systems in recent history . |
| 4 | Easter that year must have been one of the mixed joy and sadness when many old members returned after the War whilst others did not . |
| 5 | In the history of English parliaments it was a decisive encounter , although in terms of Sussex where commoners rather than knights or lords died it may well have been one of the familiar disasters around which ordinary life had to continue . |
| 6 | ‘ This must have been one of the stupid ones , ’ said Nooty . |
| 7 | Isolated in the middle of the pacific Ocean , 3,200 miles from Tahiti , and with a sea-crossing of almost a month stretching out before him to the next port of call , Darwin 's stay in this inhospitable volcanic outcrop must have been one of the lowest points for him on the entire trip . |
| 8 | All that remains of the Port Ellen library is the brass Plaque and five volumes in the Gaelic which bear the date 1905 and one of them is number 305 , so it must have been one of the largest as well as one of the early ones . |
| 9 | To these might be added the enigmatic , though incomplete , courtyard building at Corbridge , which , at 65.5 by 67 m ( 214 by 219 ft ) , would have been one of the largest of all the structures in the small towns . |
| 10 | Stamford must have been one of the religious and academic Meccas of ancient Albion , situated close to Troy , and a place of international pilgrimage for both mystics and scholars . |
| 11 | So persistent was the language that it had become no more remarkable than just another wayward manner of speaking and their sons paid so little attention to it that it might well have been one of the many private languages of love . |
| 12 | An option for those sure of the system they wanted would have been one of the many mail order suppliers like Elonex , Opus , or even a sister company of PC World , like Computers by Post ( see panel : A Brief History ) . |
| 13 | As oral amiodarone had no adverse effect on the liver function in our patient , we suggest that it may have been one of the other constituents of the intravenous solution which was responsible for the hepatotoxicity . |
| 14 | As the surface of the primeval Earth cooled , carbon will have been one of the first elements to solidify . |
| 15 | Surely she would have been one of the first to hear . |
| 16 | Having addressed the President and the Congress , and having conducted what must have been one of the first lecture tours of the United States , Owen set up a village of Co-operation at New Harmony , in Indiana . |
| 17 | He would have been one of the new party 's few ethnic Albanian members . |
| 18 | The setting up of the ‘ Strategy Unit ’ must have been one of the new Government 's very first acts . |
| 19 | Fellows , Morton and Clayton , the famous canal carrying company , may have been one of the prime movers in the business . |
| 20 | Charles Kingsley , writing of the final destruction of the Fens , was perhaps the first to regret the loss of what must have been one of the finest natural systems in Europe . |
| 21 | It may have been one of the shortest epics on record — just seven minutes — but you wo n't hear any Armagh supporters claiming they were short-changed ! |
| 22 | It is a nice reward from a trade which will have been one of the leading beneficiaries of his published research . |
| 23 | If their sales had been included , it would have been one of the few wholly independent records to reach the Top 40 . |
| 24 | Apart from a cinema , there were no real forms of entertainment ; mixing with Servicemen 's wives would have been one of the few ways of passing the days . |
| 25 | This was the site of what must have been one of the longest running water disputes in molinological history . |
| 26 | It must have been one of the old medieval roads into the city , now dosed to traffic by the concrete retaining wall of the ring boulevard . |
| 27 | We felt almost guilty that our unremarkable house in Edinburgh would have been one of the dozen oldest buildings in Austin . |
| 28 | The early days of talkies in Hollywood must have been one of the steepest learning-curves anyone anywhere has faced . |
| 29 | He was third , but only 3000 behind the winner and almost put in the Liberal in what should have been one of the safest Conservative seats in the country . |
| 30 | One of the first things to happen after my arrival at Bourn was the phasing out of Stirling bombers , so that the one that followed me around the perimeter track must have been one of the last to operate from there . |