Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [been] [adv] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | All the more odd , then , that yesterday 's funeral should have been both a celebration of time-honoured Tembu ritual and the most vocal demonstration in years on what the rest of the world calls South African soil of the strength of the ANC and its far from tribalistic affiliate , the South African Communist Party . |
| 2 | ‘ In that case you should have been here a few hours ago . ’ |
| 3 | Any tenderness between the two of them would be a sham as far as he was concerned , merely serving to emphasise the absence of love , and perhaps like her he felt that a relationship characterised by so much other feeling ought to be loving as well , that the depth of desire he felt for her should have been merely a facet of love instead of the whole . |
| 4 | Although it must have been over a hundred years old the cottage was still on the edge of the village simply because there was no building land beyond it . |
| 5 | I 'm sure it must have been rather a strain to keep pretending an interest in a boring little milliner from Mannheim . ’ |
| 6 | Charles , then , was the second brother to be left a widower , after Thomas ; the domestic burden thus falling upon him and his remaining daughters must have been rather a daunting one , including the need to feed , control and educate young Ben , then only nine years old . |
| 7 | Now , if that were right , that is , here 's our bodily bit here , that 's what individuates them , right , Socrates is shorter than Plato , Plato is a bit taller than Socrates , Socrates has funny bulgy eyes , erm Plato must have been rather a normal looking person , a variety of things that differentiate them , but they 're not different in respect of being human beings . |
| 8 | He did n't actually live in St Aldate 's , but he must have been here a lot , because he was mayor in 1636 , he was an alderman erm he was very much a leading in the city , and I think the leader of the opposition to Royal Policies . |
| 9 | ‘ There must have been just a small problem of logistics . |
| 10 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 11 | Well that must have been just a bus going . |
| 12 | Receiving the Order of Lenin from Gorbachev 's men must have been almost a humiliation for Ceauşescu on his seventieth birthday in 1988 . |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose it must have been about a quarter past eight . |
| 14 | She 'd been writing for the NME , about David Cassidy and things like that but it must have been quite a struggle to get by . |
| 15 | That must have been quite a bible lesson . |
| 16 | It must have been quite a crash . |
| 17 | Our press date prevents us giving details of this run but it must have been quite a spectacle if it went ahead as reported , and would have provided a fitting finale to an outstanding season of operations . |
| 18 | She must have been quite a joker with that bantam on her head , pigeons fluttering noisily on her shoulders ; it had all been wonderful outdoor fun . |
| 19 | It must have been quite a spectacle though when the first combine came |
| 20 | It must have been quite a shock when he turned up on the doorstep . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ There must have been quite a few since Lucia and Michele . ’ |
| 22 | sticks , erm , there must have been quite a few schools for girls |
| 23 | Must have been quite a Would there have been a procession behind it or anything ? |
| 24 | ‘ Mixed marriage ’ seems such an outdated expression nowadays but at the turn of the century it must have been quite a sacrifice for both of them to make . |
| 25 | is very clever to have got his weight down , and an 11-mile orienteering course at Silverdale must have been quite a testing expedition . |
| 26 | Well that must have been quite a mess . |
| 27 | It must have been quite a shock for you all of a sudden to be dealing with millions of pounds on the budget . |
| 28 | It must have been only a 7.65 that got him . |
| 29 | Yeah I 'm much must have been only a very young teenager . |
| 30 | It must have been half a minute before Luke said in a scathing drawl , ‘ Find out ? |