Example sentences of "[num] [modal v] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems extraordinary to today 's parents in England and the United States that women of the twenties and thirties should have been prepared to accept either the content of these pronouncements or the authoritarian tone in which they were made ; yet accepted they were , in that innumerable women made valiant efforts to stifle their natural desire to cuddle their babies and to feed them when they were hungry , or were wracked with guilt and shame when they ‘ mawkishly ’ rocked the child or sentimentally eased his stomach pangs in the small hours with a contraband couple of ounces . |
| 2 | Part 2 may have been concerned with the kinetics of the reactions between hydrogen isotopes under the conditions attainable . |
| 3 | The American Communist Party at its peak in the Thirties might have been 100,000 strong and dominated several labour unions . |
| 4 | The result of the application to the Court of Appeal on 4 November 1991 might have been different if the true position had been known to that court . |
| 5 | Nor do I imagine that Number 10 would have been overjoyed if it had been some young detective constable . ’ |
| 6 | You may remember that Cliff wore a thumb pick and two National finger picks , hence the octaves section in bars 9 and 10 would have been easier for him to pick cleanly than if he 'd used a flat pick and no fingerstyle . |
| 7 | At this level of causation the outcome with a different personality at No. 10 would have been different ; but is that historical reality ? |
| 8 | Thirteen would have been unable to cope with the elimination regimen for social reasons or because of poor understanding , eight had tight small intestinal strictures , and eight were on high dose steroids ( both of which would have made the results difficult to interpret ) , four refused , two were treated for postoperative fistulas , two were pregnant , and one was treated for extensive pyoderma gangrenosum and had no gastrointestinal symptoms . |
| 9 | His September 4-10 tour of the Baltic States of Lithuania , Latvia and Estonia under Moscow 's rule until 1991 would have been impossible before the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall . |
| 10 | Over the entire period , there were twenty-two cases of under-25 leukaemia , when only eleven would be expected , and in one critical period — from 1964 to 1978 — there had been fifteen cases where six would have been normal . |
| 11 | Thus , anyone listed as aged fifty-five could have been any age between fifty-five and fifty-nine . |
| 12 | The military revolt of General Sanjurjo on 10 August 1932 may have been premature and unsuccessful , but it was a significant straw in the wind . |
| 13 | Sex in private between consenting males over the age of 21 may have been legal since 1967 , but how far have attitudes really changed ? |
| 14 | According to aviation officials the A-300 should have been 1,500 feet higher at the point where it crashed into a jagged mountain face . |
| 15 | It appears to be even more prevalent in ‘ socialist ’ states than in ‘ capitalist ’ states : the compulsory movement to ujamaa villages in Tanzania in 1975 would have been impossible in a society which genuinely respected peasant opinion . |
| 16 | It is one of the remotest places in the British Isles … for forty years it has been the victim of a real topographical tragedy … a manufacturing town of 50,000 people where a rural centre of 20,000 would have been sufficient . |
| 17 | The indications are that he only began to reign in 738 , for an eclipse of the sun , followed by a lunar eclipse , which occurred in January 753 , is described in the eighth-century Northumbrian annals as happening in his fifteenth year , whereas Eadberht 's fifteenth year if he succeeded in 737 would have been 751–2 . |
| 18 | Although Peter returned to help you finish that tour , the early '70s must have been fraught with looking for replacements , before you crystallised the line-up with Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks … |
| 19 | Until comparatively recently the list of Home Office functions summarized in Table 3 would have been longer than it now is . |
| 20 | A 66 would have been fairer . |
| 21 | The commission at 2.5 per cent would have been 25 , and a fee of 4 ( 1.5 ) = 6 would have been payable to the clearing house . |
| 22 | Provisions to undertake these remits have been substantial but we estimate that without them our costs in 1992–93 would have been some £25 million higher . |
| 23 | Also , the open D that is played at the last 16th of bar 1 may have been accidental , and if you agree with this you might wish to play the B on the 9th fret of the D string instead … |
| 24 | If de Gaulle had adopted an exclusively parliamentary approach , the RPF 's victory in 1951 might have been enough to carry him back to power , but only on the system 's terms . |
| 25 | Had I not had to do that , to meet the high spending levels of local authorities , that £50 million could have been available for housing . |
| 26 | We had wanted two contrasting areas ( more than two would have been preferable of course in terms of the extent to which one could generalise from our findings but the projects would become expensive and it was acknowledged that we could not include more than two ) , and Ipswich and Newham were felt to fill this requirement . |
| 27 | A sixteen year old beginning work in a low-paid job in 1988 would have been entitled to a pension of £128 per week on retirement in 2037 when average earnings will be £411 a week . |
| 28 | Indeed , in its evidence to the Kilbrandon commisson , my party accepted that if its then proposals had been accepted by the commission , the case for a reduction in Scottish Members to , say , 58 or 59 would have been hard to resist . |
| 29 | Then the index stood at 130.2 so the uplifted value of a nominal £100 of 2% index-linked Treasury 1996 would have been equal to : But in September 1991 interest rates on index-linked stock were well above 2 ½%,; so the Bank of England issued the new tranchette at a price of £110.625 to give an estimated real gross yield to maturity of 4.22% . |