Example sentences of "have [been] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was only about Nigel 's age , which meant that he 'd have been a toddler then . |
| 2 | For a moment , it could have been a second only , he sat rigidly gazing down at his clasped hands . |
| 3 | The second is that , in fact , direct democracy could be a great deal more widely practised than it actually is , and that some modern technological developments have made it easier to implement than it might have been a century ago . |
| 4 | It was very good actually , the weather could have been a bit better but erm thanks very much for arranging it , it went very well . |
| 5 | ( You 'd think he might have been a bit more careful — after all , this was n't happening in the Dark Ages before birth control was invented . ) |
| 6 | I would have been a bit more calm , I would have thought , ‘ There 's someone out there 1 6 who cares . ’ |
| 7 | But you know , I felt like saying , well , you know he could have been a bit more considerate and concerned when we were actually going out with each other ! |
| 8 | Or I could have been a bit less awkward , and said , you just give me the positive one . |
| 9 | I wonder now : Sprague may have been a bit too clever in tipping me off . |
| 10 | Would it not have been a pipedream only six weeks ago to think that the Berlin Wall would be knocked down ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ A bloody good thing or our childhood would have been a misery instead of just a bore . ’ |
| 12 | There must also have been a loop so that locomotives could run round their trains in order to be at the front for the journey back to Bishop 's Castle . |
| 13 | It 's known whether this could have been a factor here in the accident . |
| 14 | ‘ After all you 've done in the past for Rosemary and me , and are still doing , ’ he went on , ‘ I got to thinking yesterday that I could have been a sight more energetic in letting you know how delighted I am that you 're going to marry my cousin . |
| 15 | Well , I mean a , and the Queen was nothing , er well , the Queen would n't have been a Queen now would she ? |
| 16 | It could have been a cover-up though . |
| 17 | We always see that aspect , but we forget that first he must have been a warrior too . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | That 's what makes me think that the man may have been a foreigner perhaps even killed on the other side of the channel . " |
| 20 | It is only now clear to me that in actual fact it must have been a day later . |
| 21 | That would have been a day tomorrow . |
| 22 | In the end , it must have been a week later , he rang me up again one evening at Caroline 's . |
| 23 | Coming up , which would have been more serious , maybe , cos it meant there might have been a break somewhere or |
| 24 | ‘ When you are innocent , even the fine of one penny would have been a penny too much , ’ he told an excited press corps who were already working over-time on the scoop . |
| 25 | He could have been a contender instead of a ‘ dead-player ’ — the author of an 800-page memoir . |
| 26 | He appeared slight standing next to the sergeant major , although he must have been a shade over six feet himself . |
| 27 | I do n't regret it , of course — I might never have been a priest otherwise — but I often think that that 's why I just do n't seem able to come to grips with the modern world . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It would have been a crime completely out of character , ’ he told me , ‘ and it was the way he spoke about it that convinced me . ’ |
| 29 | The ordinary people of Hoy could have been a lot closer with a videophone call . |
| 30 | This tally could possibly have been a lot more had it not been for his unreliable behaviour in the show ring . |