Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] have [been] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first place , although non-convertible bank notes may have been a new element , many — perhaps most — commercial transactions had long depended on paper bills rather than value-for-weight coin . |
| 2 | Indeed , the fact that serious crime was often punished by confiscation of all the malefactor 's possessions must have been a sore temptation , and doubtless tended to prejudice kings towards verdicts of guilty . |
| 3 | Both dorsals must have been a good twelve inches clear of the water . |
| 4 | I suppose my eyes must have been a little red . |
| 5 | Well black leading was a sort of erm going out cleaning the old fireplaces , for people that were slightly better off than we were , their husbands might have been a tram driver or a railway driver . |
| 6 | His ears might have been a bit wonky but his nose was working just fine . |
| 7 | Growing in the arable fields during the summer months would have been a crop of barley amongst which various weeds were growing , including fat-hen , common orache and black bindweed . |
| 8 | ‘ A train pulled in just 15 seconds after the blast if it had been a bit earlier then the casualties would have been a hell of a lot worse , ’ said eye-witness Andy Anderson , a Financial Times journalist . |
| 9 | The flies may have been a product of the fine network that functions in depth , in which case they will certainly have got caught in the cobwebs. ( 21/23 ) |
| 10 | In the eyes of the unhappy infantry , the heavy gunners may have been a breed apart , but beyond them lay one small body of men that seemed to be not even of the same world . |
| 11 | ‘ The accidental shooting of Michael Banks must have been a shock , but , as time passed , the murderer must have begun to feel very secure from the danger of discovery . ’ |
| 12 | Indeed , the immediate effect of enclosure in most places must have been a feeling of nakedness and rawness in the landscape , until the hedgerow trees were well-grown : |
| 13 | Since , in northern climes , water-clocks must have been a nuisance in winter when they froze , in the fourteenth century sand-clocks were invented . |
| 14 | The person selling the goods must have been a buyer ‘ in possession , ’ i. e. he must have obtained ‘ with the consent of the seller , possession of the goods or documents of title to the goods . ’ |
| 15 | Things might have been a little different if Tony Crosland had still been at the Department of Education and Science , but I doubt it . |
| 16 | ‘ The consequences of this man 's actions could have been a lot more serious because of the lady 's age and we are anxious to arrest him as soon as possible . |
| 17 | I think things could have been a lot better at Pam s . |
| 18 | My jubilation those first few years was due to the fact that , since I had never grown anything before , any edibles would have been a miracle , let alone this bounty . |
| 19 | His plea that Louis stop appointing widows as abbesses may have been a response to the installation of Judith 's mother Heilwig as abbess of Chelles . |
| 20 | ‘ My mother was always shutting herself off from reality and from nastiness ; she was idealistic , which in commercial terms may have been a very good retailing idea but which I , as a rebellious teenager , found difficult to live with . ’ |
| 21 | Concerned to be an extravagantly pious king , and to take full political advantage of the elevated position enjoyed by Christian monarchs , the popular regard for an ecclesiastic so recently and brutally murdered by his countrymen may have been a source of considerable embarrassment . |
| 22 | A clash of personalities must have been a factor , one feels . |
| 23 | Sails would have been a hindrance . |
| 24 | Compaq Computer Corp 's first quarter earnings were better than the highest of Wall Street estimates and some analysts said that if it were not for a negative impact from currency translations , profits would have been a bit higher still . |
| 25 | ‘ Captaining the Lions would have been a lovely honour , and obviously I 'm disappointed , but I 'm delighted just to have been selected . |
| 26 | If the vote had gone against them , the bombs would have been a gesture of defiance ; as it is , they are sheer triumphalism . |
| 27 | In this way , new requests for credit may run up against a powerful and undeniably sensible combination of background knowledge and personal experience which rules them out , even when the applicant whose personal circumstances ring these alarm bells would have been a satisfactory payer . |
| 28 | It is considered that the plain wings may have been a regimental design . |
| 29 | The immigration of African slaves may have been a factor , as might also a degree of interaction with the aborigines that was missing further north . |
| 30 | Shifting sands might have been a more apt title ! |