Example sentences of "[adj] have been [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a putative diagnosis of yaws is made in someone from an endemic area , on the strength of positive treponemal blood tests , it is customary to give a course of penicillin which would be adequate to treat latent syphilis should this have been the cause of the positive STS . |
| 2 | On the last passage Elizabeth noted : ‘ Could this have been the Queen of Ithaca ? ’ |
| 3 | Could this have been the intention ? |
| 4 | Can this have been the opening phases of the interaction ? |
| 5 | Could this have been the method used in Upper Halling ? |
| 6 | Apart from the little Isle of Axholme , this basin must all have been a flooded fen roughly 8 miles wide by 12 miles long . |
| 7 | Now she had to face the fact that it could all have been a sham . |
| 8 | ‘ She also said if he 'd gone like he said he was going to , this would never have happened and they would all have been a lot better off . ’ |
| 9 | I mean could that have been a motive for the murder ? ’ |
| 10 | Would that have been a kind of enjoyable job ? |
| 11 | Could that have been the bandit , sir — if it was a bandit ? ’ |
| 12 | This would at best have been a major irritant for an embattled leader of the opposition But it became worse than that . |