Example sentences of "have been very [adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Well there were the jobs tha that I mentioned really , production manager or assistant director and now he would have been quite happy I know to have done those , because I remember talking about it you know er and he would have been very good at either of them , but erm er he he did n't get well he was a slightly abrasive man , he he he his erm I I think in a way erm he was a director who could who was not really a very good film director , he he could get things done very quickly and that 's why he worked for bash , bash , bash getting through everything quickly .
2 This was not a very positive thing to say because Ralph lost some morale which could have been very dangerous at such an early stage .
3 The limestone seems to be exactly the same as that at the head of the pass , so the seas in which it was laid down must surely have been very similar to those that produced fossiliferous rocks .
4 Even as he charmed Cagney burnt up a nervous restlessness in a way that would have been very familiar to many of his fans .
5 Bill would have been very proud of that moment . ’
6 The Corresponding Members also included a German , an Italian and , more interestingly , an Indian Mahadeva Vishnu Kane , BA , of Bombay , whose religious background must have been very different from that of the earnest doubters of Cambridge .
7 Life must have been very hard for many of these poor women . ’
8 It must have been very hard in those days for parents with a large family and a very low income to clothe their children .
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