Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she could say playfully , in public , that he had been fiddling about with one design for three years , their conversations on his work in private must have been explosive . |
| 2 | Some who were interested might have been unable to think of a method . |
| 3 | Even so , the French might have been able to pull through had the great motivator , Jacques Fouroux , been around . |
| 4 | But the English would have been worse . ’ |
| 5 | Anyone in United 's famous championship sides of old would have been delighted to have scored the goal Kanchelskis produced at Old Trafford last night . |
| 6 | He projects well in the Légende , but here , too , a more ravishing sound-quality would have been desirable . |
| 7 | Their impact on the marine communities of the Ordovician must have been profound . |
| 8 | The court said obiter that the accused would have been guilty even if the police had shot dead an innocent bystander , though the actual victim was innocent too . |
| 9 | The T.R. may have been unique in having tickets priced in farthings . |
| 10 | Texans expecting something equally outré must have been disappointed by Desert of Roses : a treatment of the Beauty and the Beast legend set in Texas just after the American Civil War , the piece is essentially a rather sugary Broadway musical with minimalist frosting on the score . |
| 11 | After this well-considered plea for Gothic , everyone present must have been astonished by the next speaker . |
| 12 | Ironically , the number of old people who were poor would have been greater but for the action of the Attlee Government . |
| 13 | The growing importance of trade unions in the 1860s registered this , the very existence — not to mention the strength — of the International would have been impossible without it . |
| 14 | To brand the Celtic Church heretical would have been tantamount to a declaration of war ; and in the event of such a war , Rome would have had no prospect whatever of victory . |
| 15 | The Dutch should have been aware of it , but strangely the RLD gave the KLM DC-10s a Netherlands certificate of airworthiness , or rather validated the US certificate , notwithstanding their considerable reservations about the strength or ventilation of the cabin floor . |
| 16 | The Dutch might have been willing to see a world without territorial empire , if only it had been possible to keep up a trading system on that basis . |
| 17 | But we would nevertheless hope that by the end of their school careers as many pupils as possible will have been able to ‘ grow ’ through literature — both emotionally and aesthetically , both morally and socially — by virtue of coming into contact with the ‘ range of possible thought and feeling ’ identified above [ in the quotation from the Kingman Report printed on p. 72 ] . |
| 18 | Parker 's complacency about acceptance of Gothic must have been short-lived . |
| 19 | At this time , a singularity called the big bang , the density of the universe and the curvature of space-time would have been infinite . |
| 20 | At that time , which we call the big bang , the density of the universe and the curvature of space-time would have been infinite . |
| 21 | The conduct of an increasing number of the young would have been unthinkable 30 to 40 years ago . |
| 22 | I wish you 'd told me before , Edward , I mean , it 's entirely your own affair of course but if I 'd known forewarned would have been forearmed and we could have avoided this sort of thing . ’ |
| 23 | He 's so musical that I 'm sure his ability to get others to be creative must have been considerable . |