Example sentences of "have been [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it would have been exactly the same problem simple harmonic motion |
| 2 | ‘ I think a part of me probably died when I took your job , though it may have been just the settling-down thing . |
| 3 | This could have been just the usual self-indulgent actor 's reminiscences . |
| 4 | Yet when all allowance is made for this bias in the evidence , one can not help being struck by the conspicuous part in our story which was played by the Empress Theophanu , the Empress Agnes , the Countess Matilda , St Margaret , the Empress Matilda , Queen Eleanor — great ladies who rose above the limitations of their sex , as commonly understood , as rulers , as saints or as viragos ; and the twelfth century would have been greatly the poorer without the life and work of the English Christina , the Hertfordshire anchoress , or of the French Heloise , the Stoic of the Paraclete , or of the German Hildegarde , the mystic of Bingen . |
| 5 | come on because it would have been perhaps the first time I suppose it would n't be a |
| 6 | If she was not , then she must have been almost the only member of Edinburgh political society who managed to know nothing about it — and that in itself would be a comment on her political awareness . |
| 7 | If the senatorial rules had not been used the effect would of course have been essentially the same . |
| 8 | In this Law shared the view of his party , but it would have been substantially the same without him . |
| 9 | But things would have been much the same . |
| 10 | The painting by H.T. Wells RA depicts HEADBURY QUARRY a little west of Dancing Ledge but the view of Tilly Whim early in 19th century would have been much the same . |
| 11 | Whatever they were called , the duties of all these officials must have been much the same , acting as leaders of their communities , settling minor infractions and disputes , approving corporate actions of the inhabitants , especially in religious dedications , and acting generally as an essential link between government and people . |
| 12 | Socially , though , he and Karen , who taught part-time at a girls ' school in Headington , were both from a lower-middle-class , comp/tech background , and it may not have been only the fearsome price of property in the North Oxford heartlands which had put them off moving there . |
| 13 | That 's wh- , must have been virtually the last day when we discovered the Disney shop across the road . |
| 14 | Sam said to me thoughtfully , ‘ If you had n't stopped me , I 'd have rolled up the curtain so as to go into the dock in a boat , and all that stuff under the water would have slithered away into the river and no one would have been any the wiser . ’ |
| 15 | Her garments were so large and flowing that a man could have pleasured her while she was waiting at a bus-stop and no one would have been any the wiser . |
| 16 | Had he not done so , the probability is the probation order would have run for six months and no one would have been any the wiser . ’ |
| 17 | The happy outcome would have been precisely the same in either case . |