Example sentences of "have been [adj] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the circumstances of 1921 , Michael Joyce would have been ill-advised to seek reconciliation with the new order in Ireland . |
| 2 | In doing this it would have been helpful to include profitability or value added as the independent variable but in all countries there were many companies which did not know or would not release these figures in relation to individual products . |
| 3 | Whereas a few years ago a mainframe computer would have been essential to perform corpus processing , a desktop computer now suffices . |
| 4 | In extreme cases , unjustified delay can render a dismissal unfair even in a case where a similar penalty would have been legitimate had management not dragged its feet . |
| 5 | During Franco , it would have been impossible to do Law Of Desire . |
| 6 | The words were said with such good humour and aggressive sureness that it would have been impossible to take offence . |
| 7 | As the political assimilative into which were absorbed the opinions , convictions and energies which would otherwise have been available to impel Owenism and so to maximise its chances of attaining its goal , industrial democracy , the struggle to secure the passage of the Reform Bill demands attention . |
| 8 | I think it would have been better to get community work instead of prison — something to do . |
| 9 | Now you might say , er , that , that , that 's very paradoxical , why should Darwin have been prepared to consider Lamarckism , even evolution by will Lamarckism in psychology , when he , when he would n't accept it , for instance , in talking about the , the lengthening of the necks of giraffes . |
| 10 | Same age as Francesca , and had attended the same good North London all-girls ' grammar school , for entry to which aspiring parents would have been prepared to pay blood-money had there been anyone in the austere intellectual governing body and teaching staff who would have taken it . |
| 11 | When Britain 's pound joined the ERM , the British should have consulted their partners about its chosen central parity of DM2.95 ; and when sterling came under pressure , they should have been prepared to raise interest rates sooner than they did . |
| 12 | It would have been wrong to propose abolition , and in any case no member of the Commission in fact believed that it should be illegal for a parent to spend money on a child 's education . |
| 13 | ‘ At the moment this is not always done and yet there are people who , if they 'd been approached , would have been willing to give permission . ’ |
| 14 | Configuring the cables of Shuttle Columbia with well over 7 million possible results is a good example of a problem conventional programing just would not have been able to tackle cost effectively . |
| 15 | The irony of the position described by my hon. Friend the Member for Makerfield ( Mr. McCartney ) is that , if Wigan had received the same amount in grant as was received by Wandsworth and Westminster in the year in which it was capped , it would not have had to levy a tax at all ; indeed , it might have been able to give money back from the previous year 's levy . |
| 16 | He would have been able to claim credit for ‘ one of the Government 's export achievements ’ , a reference to the 30 per cent of those elected to become Fellows of the Royal Society who now live abroad . |
| 17 | This Bill redefined British nationality , excluding perhaps millions who previously would have been able to claim citizenship . |
| 18 | His sabre , unfortunately , was on the other side of the sepoy ( it was a good thing he had not noticed it because it was so sharp that he would have been able to slice Fleury in two without even pressing ) . |
| 19 | Paneth and Peters would never have been able to make helium from hydrogen as they were missing the neutrons ; replace the hydrogen with deuterium and you may have a chance of success . |
| 20 | Why , he asks God , has he never sent him a friend who would have been able to make sense of his inner experience and translate the ‘ music ’ he has heard in his soul into intelligible sound ? |
| 21 | Labour may not have been able to maintain control of the municipal sphere for a prolonged period , but it had built a strong tradition of formal political activity which was to form the basis of hegemonic power in the interwar years . |
| 22 | He will not be able to edit it or to introduce pauses to allow for comprehension ; nor will he have been able to prepare practice exercises ( oral or written ) based on the broadcast . |
| 23 | Without the resources of the Oxford department in the following three years , Florey would probably not have been able to bring penicillin to clinical fruition . |
| 24 | Set up in 1983 under the Finance Act , the BES has been a major facilitator of the channelling of funds to businesses ( Peat Marwick 1986 ) , many of which would apparently not have been able to raise capital without the help of the BES , although it was also reported that very little of the funds were provided for seedcorn businesses . |
| 25 | Yet Hobbins would not have been able to get hold of the bullets if a broken cabinet in his barracks had been repaired . |
| 26 | In other words , with the correct equipment , listeners would have been able to hear thunder as though coming from above them while hearing ‘ rain ’ trickling around their feet . |
| 27 | This exile might have been permanent had Swegen not died in February 1014. Æthelred was invited back , and wasted little time in expelling Cnut and his army from their Lincolnshire base . |
| 28 | Even in better light , it would have been hard to make sense of the look on the stranger 's face , torn between agitation and disgust . |
| 29 | It would have been amusing to watch Rainbow striving to loosen Riva 's rigidities , unbutton her inhibitions , slip off her certainties , rub away her prejudices with a gentle but persistent thumb . |
| 30 | He was glad that the matter was dealt with ; it would have been inconvenient to travel south just now , he would have missed an important part of the moral philosophy course . |