Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [been] a mistake " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I pleaded with the officials that the test result must have been a mistake . ’ |
| 2 | My sister thought it must have been a mistake , and kept the pound notes in case he came back for them . |
| 3 | Stephenson admitted that the appointment might have been a mistake . |
| 4 | He thought now it might have been a mistake . |
| 5 | This might have been a mistake , he now reflected , as he seemed to have indigestion . |
| 6 | He was beginning to feel that it may have been a mistake , it may have been wiser to have remained elsewhere . |
| 7 | Clough also revealed that he thought he had signed Welsh international striker Dean Saunders before his move to Liverpool — and admitted selling Teddy Sheringham to Tottenham may have been a mistake . |
| 8 | Officials think now that may have been a mistake . |
| 9 | ‘ It would have been a mistake to bring in consultants immediately . |
| 10 | That would have been a mistake . |
| 11 | This , however , would have been a mistake as there were many quieter rewards : Richard Haslam on ‘ The patronage of repair : Palladio 's Villa Saraceno in its twentieth-century context ’ and Stephen Lloyd on ‘ Richard Cosway and the Prince of Wales ’ to name two , while Emma Barker 's ‘ Illegitimacy and the rights of the unmarried mother in eighteenth-century France ’ quickly dispelled any notions the audience might have had of topicality , and offered a reasoned discussion of nature versus civilisation in eighteenth-century literature and painting . |
| 12 | For example I 'd like to swim ( infinitive with to ) : I saw him go ( infinitive without to ) : : To have continued would have been a mistake ( perfect infinitive ) ; He wants to be told ( passive infinitive ) . |
| 13 | ‘ That would have been a mistake . |
| 14 | I now realise this would have been a mistake . |