Example sentences of "[modal v] have been a good " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT SHOULD have been a good week . |
| 2 | Similarly Fawn Hall , asked by North to alter memoranda to conceal his work for the contras , remembered feeling uneasy : ‘ but I believe in Colonel North , and I know that there must have been a good reason why he was asking me to do this , and I — I did as I was told . ’ |
| 3 | He must have been a good bit older than her . |
| 4 | There must have been a good reason for the same method was also in use at other coach works . |
| 5 | In its heyday it must have been a good little vehicle , but now it was definitely finished . |
| 6 | ‘ Better get moving , ’ he thought He stopped as he turned Had he imagined it , no , he was sure something had flashed in the moonlight It must have been a good quarter of a mile away , towards the middle of the estuary . |
| 7 | Both dorsals must have been a good twelve inches clear of the water . |
| 8 | Gough Square was no backwater — Dr. Samuel Johnson had lived there a few years before — and a Gough Square lady must have been a good catch for an impecunious cheesemonger 's son . |
| 9 | With 80 per cent of the seats in the arena again empty , it might have been a good opportunity to bus in the LTA 's young hopefuls to see for themselves what success in the game requires . |
| 10 | Publishing the old figures compiled from Job Centres , said Mr Hibbert , alongside the new ones might have been a good idea just to show how misleading the old ones had been . |
| 11 | Mir Jafar , who was made Nawab , had an adequate claim to the throne and might have been a good ruler under other circumstances , but it was quite clear that he was on the throne simply because the Company had decided to put him there . |
| 12 | He had n't shaved recently , and a little soap might have been a good idea . |
| 13 | For some time now , the SARA Executive has been seeking input more generally from the rowing population for the updating of its Development Plan , but what might have been a good idea to achieve this seems set for a less than successful conclusion . |
| 14 | We could be accused of listening to foreign propaganda even if we were not , and now that we were on the suspected list this could have been a good excuse for having us arrested again . |
| 15 | Therefore it was supposed that payments practices , and other institutional arrangements which change only slowly over time , have more influence on the velocity of circulation than any temporary changes in M. Before the First World War there may have been a good deal of truth in this assumption because the financial system was relatively unsophisticated and financial innovation was taking place very slowly by today 's standards . |
| 16 | If Bernie had n't been around we would have been a band , and we would have been a good band but we would n't have been the band . |
| 17 | The Derby was the first time Nijinsky started at odds against — and if his full background story had been known , the odds would have been a good deal longer . |
| 18 | Certainly one is not under an obligation to look after the child if one did not promise to do so just because it would have been a good thing to promise . |
| 19 | Do you think Elvis would have been a good character to have lived into his old age ? |
| 20 | He would have been a good schoolmaster , I thought : gentle , precise , dry-humoured . |
| 21 | This was just the sort of attitude the paper wanted — in another context it would have been a good news story . |
| 22 | Inevitably the industry came under some pressure from the Government to control this burgeoning demand from domestic consumers , without which the capacity crisis would have been a good deal less serious . |
| 23 | By what route this strategy will proceed is unclear — technology swapping , OEM or other — however , the company admits that it probably would have been a good idea had Tandem Computers Inc and Pyramid had meshed their respective hardware and Unix software experience in that area two years ago . |
| 24 | Had it been properly directed there would have been a good contract and A would have been liable in damages to B for not delivering the horse . |
| 25 | It would have been a good place to hold a torchlight rally . |
| 26 | It would have been a good party anyway , even if he had n't met Sara , he thought . |
| 27 | It would have been a good excuse to use to get Mr Parnham off his back . |
| 28 | Do you think Ruddock would have been a good buy ? |
| 29 | I thought driving up today would have been a good day but the reality is that it is not going to start until Easter time . |
| 30 | Town 's first Easter delight came on saturday against Luton at the County Ground … they were given a tough time in this one … a draw would have been a good result … a fair one too … but thanks to Paul Bodin the full-back with a golden boot they went and snatched a win … |