Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ultimately , he dashed out of bed and caught a cab to the theatre — where he arrived thirty minutes after what should have been curtain time , to see his erstwhile audience walking away , dejected looks on most of the faces . |
| 2 | That was the last , , I should have been market trader , been shouting out that voice and |
| 3 | Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that . |
| 4 | He called it the Common Red Rose and described it as having ‘ flowers not very double , open wide ’ , indicating that this must have been Rosa gallica officinalis or the Apothecary 's Rose . |
| 5 | it always starts but I feel there must have been fuel evaporation . |
| 6 | Like Southern Baptists of Tennessee , many Northern Irish Presbyterians believe that the wine enjoyed by Jesus and His disciples must have been grape juice , since Christians do not drink alcohol . |
| 7 | By the end of that he 'll have been Blades boss for nearly nine years ! |
| 8 | In normal circumstances 1939 might have been election year . |
| 9 | Fidel Castro is no far-distant Arab , but rules an island only 90 miles from Key West , on what might have been home ground had politics gone slightly differently less than a century ago . |
| 10 | The men might have been centre stage on day one of Wimbledon , but thanks to Atalanta , the women will soon have their day in more ways than one . |
| 11 | It might have been mince meat just ti cooked in tins . |
| 12 | Undefined neurological diseases , which in retrospect might have been Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease , had affected the patients ' fathers , who had died at age 68 and 71 respectively . |
| 13 | ‘ An excellent cake , miss , but perhaps a trifle overbaked , ’ Chignell said delicately , when Breeze remarked with a sigh that it might have been almond rock . |
| 14 | The ale could have been sea water for all he tasted . |
| 15 | ‘ It could have been Marston Moor , it 's nearer than Waterloo . ’ |
| 16 | It could have been exam pressure we 've read about people like that at Oxford University . |
| 17 | Ealdred 's kinswoman could have been Abbess Aethelburh , daughter of a local lord , Aelfred , who was given Withington in Gloucestershire in the 770s ( CS 217 : S 1255 ) . |
| 18 | If it had n't been so quiet , it could have been Paddington station during a commuter cull . |
| 19 | If he was a bit deadlier in the balls he 'd have been world champion . ’ |
| 20 | They thought she may have been sleep walking . |
| 21 | Her dramatic assertion may have been wish fulfilment , a hyperbolic statement expressing her real desires , but with such an unstable outlook we could n't take any chances : publication was brought forward to June . |
| 22 | It may have been jet lag or it may have been the excitement . |
| 23 | It would have been storybook stuff had he returned to win the British Seniors ' Open at Lytham or defend his Forte PGA Seniors ' Open title at Royal Dublin for the third successive year . |
| 24 | One square 's separation would have been dagger range . |
| 25 | ‘ Today would have been sheep day in the old days , ’ the driver explained , as he hurried in to take over from his wife at the bar . |
| 26 | Injuries rule out scrum-half Douglas ( Newcastle Gosforth ) and Lumsden , who would have been Oxford University 's full-back last December . |
| 27 | But B of course if you did badly in those elections in May the government might have done badly in May , then morale would have been rock bottom of having to go into an election , he would have had to go for an election six weeks later or they 'd run out of time , yeah . |
| 28 | That would have been Salisbury plain , |
| 29 | A more accurate term would have been desktop layout or desktop typesetting and page makeup but we 've been stuck with the words he used . |
| 30 | He 's won umpteen Grands Prix and if Dalgety could have managed a tighter mechanical edge last season the general consensus is that he would have been world champion . |