Example sentences of "have been [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that would undoubtedly have been for the best . |
| 2 | They 'd have been to the Catholic service , had their sins forgiven from the week before , then started again . ’ |
| 3 | The colonial courts , despite their formal structure which was modelled on British lines , were far less alien to the average Sri Lankan than they would have been to the ordinary Englishman . |
| 4 | While he was in Chinese captivity , and apart from writing poems in classical Chinese ( some of which , while they may not have been of the highest order classically , are nevertheless moving and rather beautiful ) Ho had also translated Dr Sun Yat Sen 's modern political classic the San Min Chu I into Vietnamese and this expedient flattery of China and Chinese continued after Ho 's release . |
| 5 | But er that was , that was very much er clutching at things that might have been at the last moment . |
| 6 | It must have been at the very time of the proceedings against Myln that the archbishop of St Andrews received the earl of Argyll 's answers to his letter of admonition of 31 March 1558 , in which he warned the earl of the dangers of his support for Protestantism . |
| 7 | ‘ Though we knew by the place where he had fallen that it must have been at the very summit just as the path runs down the cliff to Kinghorn Manor . ’ |
| 8 | Singer Richard Fairbrass , stormed at the duo at No.12 with Magic Friend : ‘ They could n't have been at the same show . |
| 9 | One in three householders believed bills were less than they would have been under the existing system ( of flat-rate charges ) , nearly one in five said bills were about the same , while more than one in three said they were higher . |
| 10 | Damage whilst on other premises is now covered , but would not have been under the previous Engineering policy . |
| 11 | I am glad they 've approved it because it 's , it 's removed any uncertainty there might have been about the nineteen nineties , slightly disappointing that they chose to tinker with our wording here and there , but , but by and large , not too unhappy . |
| 12 | It must have been about the fourth or fifth time I went round to see him . |
| 13 | Or would it have been about the same ? |
| 14 | if we had taken the most recent trend , it would have been over the last three years . |
| 15 | Surely he should have been over the romantic stage by then . |
| 16 | Indeed , one might even go so far as to say that , were it not for the ‘ discovery ’ of Siberia 's seemingly inexhaustible resources of ‘ soft gold ’ , that is , an abundance of fur-bearing mammals — in particular the highly-prized sable — the Muscovite government would have been without the economic foundation for the growth of its political power . |
| 17 | This implies that the number of jobs associated with any given level of output in the economy will be smaller than it would have been without the technological advances . |
| 18 | In the study by Mattsson et al describing development of enterochromaffin like carcinoids in rats afer longterm hypergastrinaemia caused by partial corpectomy , the plasma gastrin concentration might have been above the minimal concentration necessary to give maximal trophic effect ( supramaximal concentration ) . |
| 19 | But he was no more comfortable on the radio programme than he would have been on the real desert island . |
| 20 | I sometimes wonder at the sheer multiplicity of the oyster Gryphaea arcuata there must have been on the earliest Jurassic sea-floors over what is now Europe , and the millions upon millions of creatures ( whatever they were ) that chewed their way through mid Jurassic mud to produce the trace-fossil Zoophycos . |
| 21 | But of course , Agnes realised , Sims — or whoever he 'd been born — must once have been on the far side of The Wall , too . |
| 22 | If there was any honour in this Government , Mr Heseltine 's resignation would have been on the Prime Minister 's desk at the same time as the High Court judgment . |
| 23 | I should have been on the following flight to bring you back . |
| 24 | Before his reign the site would have been on the southernmost borders of the empire ; when he died it was at the empire 's heart . |
| 25 | Any higher and we would have been on the bloody roof , and squeezed into rather mean , dark garrets . |
| 26 | Schwartzman and Volk reckon that weathering was helped along to such an extent that the Earth is 35°C cooler than it would have been on the lifeless Earth . |
| 27 | If I had n't been ‘ discovered ’ , as I suppose I must describe it , then I would have been on the same old path , up at Low Birk Hatt and miserable . |
| 28 | It would not come although it must have been on the same day as the trip to the cathedral and her aunt had undoubtedly been with her . |
| 29 | Effectively this means that the previous dealings must have been on the same terms and a consistent procedure must have been followed . |
| 30 | By the way , I am convinced that the black girl who joined us should have been on the cultural induction course next door . |