Example sentences of "have been [adv] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two-nil up at home against moderate opposition — it would have been downhill all the way for most teams . |
| 2 | It should have been downhill all the way for retired Shetland Pony Selwyn , instead it turned out to be downbeat . |
| 3 | Scattered later evidence suggested that Wealden superstitions died hard ; indeed , it may have been as potent a force in determining local beliefs as organised Christianity at least until this present century . |
| 4 | I am not certain of the date when the Navy finally abandoned the general use of hammocks , but to my mind it must have been as retrogressive a decision as that taken when abandoning the tot of ‘ Nelson 's blood ’ at 12 noon every day ! |
| 5 | Standing at the corner of Great Tower Street and Seething Lane , in the very shadow of the Tower of London , All Hallows must have been as impressive a building then as it is today : one of the oldest parish churches in the City , it has always had close links with the Tower itself , and was used as a place of burial for many an unfortunate wretch executed on the nearby scaffold . |
| 6 | Such an outcome would have been so great a blow to Edward II 's prestige that he decided to throw all his resources into reaching the garrison and destroying the besiegers . |
| 7 | It would not have been so light a thing to her if Hotspur had been among those dour-faced lordlings clattering through the streets of Shrewsbury with their shame . |
| 8 | ‘ The Russian Revolution ’ , Russell wrote in March 1917 , ‘ has stirred men 's imaginations everywhere and has made things possible which would have been quite impossible a week ago . ’ |
| 9 | But the GR-1 's predecessor , the GR-50 , may have been too complex an answer to the guitar synth dilemma , being notoriously awkward to program and none too performance-friendly into the bargain . |
| 10 | Over-awed , converted both by her persuasion and her gold , Boult remains in prose ( any change would have been too great a transformation ) , yet agrees to help her . |
| 11 | " Well , no , he did n't actually , that would have been too good a story . |
| 12 | Had the plaintiff been shot , then this would have been too remote a consequence and causation not established . |
| 13 | For me , suicide would have been too active an act . |
| 14 | ‘ This money would have been very useful a year ago after the Teebane massacre because two families lost their only breadwinners . ’ |
| 15 | Later , two men took me into a corner and fired questions at me for what seemed like ages , but can only have been about half an hour . |
| 16 | And could have been once all a con . |
| 17 | That you should have been there all the while and me not know it all this time ! |
| 18 | But in a more important sense he would be wrong , for there is no such person as he had in mind and I would have been there all the time . |
| 19 | It must have been there all the time , sitting motionless and staring straight at me from the far edge of the level area of the Grounds , but I had n't noticed it at first . |
| 20 | It could have been there all the time . |