Example sentences of "have been [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With an assumed growing population in early Anglo-Saxon England there would have been increasing pressure on rural resources , especially by the second half of the seventh century . |
| 2 | Phormio 's alliance was hardly , given the distance of Akarnania from Athens , the considered policy of the Athenian Assembly — the general just made it on the spot — and may have been mere opportunism , for Athens made many alliances which never came to anything and were not expected to . |
| 3 | It ca n't have been mere curiosity . |
| 4 | Monaghan came close to snatching victory but this would have been rough justice on Cavan who showed flair and fluency in the first half before fading . |
| 5 | There should have been major expenditure on affordable provision , this would be a major factor in getting people back to work . ’ |
| 6 | ( It may have been simple retaliation — he had been mildly reprimanded by the guardians for allowing an unqualified assistant to attend a midwifery case as his deputy earlier that year , and had been instructed to provide the name of a legally qualified locum . ) |
| 7 | They could have sent me to prison for two years but that would have been political suicide . ’ |
| 8 | To have taken on the world in that state would have been political suicide . |
| 9 | However , despite this evidence , prosecution would have been political suicide since the defendants might have argued that civil servants and certain government ministers knew of the oil sanctions-busting arrangements and therefore the company considered their actions , although technically illegal , were informally condoned by governmental officials . |
| 10 | Robertson 's drive over the bar and Klinsmann 's shot , astutely blocked by Walker , ensured that there would have been adolescent opposition to the idea of an early exit while there was so much to appreciate . |
| 11 | But John-William had bought so much land at Far Flatley from Colonel Covington-Pym , a whole bank of his river and several fields beyond that there would have been ample room to build Gemma and Tristan a dear little nest . |
| 12 | ’ It could have been lover-boy Gharr . ’ |
| 13 | The label on the bottle bore a picture of Dr MacLaren , who looked as if he might have been personal physician to Mr Gladstone . |
| 14 | There may have been personal antipathy involved , although Mancini 's account reads rather like an attempt to rationalize a hostility which he could not explain — as does More 's bland assertion that women commonly hate their husband 's best friends . |
| 15 | There may have been personal antipathy involved , although Mancini 's account reads rather like an attempt to rationalize a hostility which he could not explain — as does More 's bland assertion that women commonly hate their husband 's best friends . |
| 16 | It seemed that the all-pervading light was weakening : it must have been late afternoon . |
| 17 | During recent times , the main goal of many firms may have been long term survival . |
| 18 | It must have been dull touring around Britain after Broadway but she knew of no alternative . |
| 19 | Det Supt Michael Hames , head of Scotland Yard 's Obscene Publica-tions branch , said if the film-makers had not called it ‘ educational ’ , then it would have been blatant pornography . |
| 20 | He had to look into her eyes because he was so close to her that to look elsewhere would have been blatant rudeness . |
| 21 | Again , it would have been professional suicide for a civil servant to describe the indignities of derangement and to represent himself as having been mad , unless the facts were as well known to his colleagues and masters as he says they were ; while to try , on the other hand , to put his known condition in a better light , as Hoccleve does , is sensible only if the fact of his illness was well known but his recovery less well recognised , which is what he claims . |
| 22 | Replacing either of them — and they ran the series as a sort of family business the Marks and Spencer of movie comedy — would have been professional suicide . |
| 23 | That would have been cruel comfort . ’ |
| 24 | After recording a verdict of accidental death coroner Nicholas Gardiner said it was known that the seats should have been rear facing but he did n't think this would have affected the outcome . |
| 25 | That claim may have been sheer bravado , but given his long association with US intelligence , the general undoubtedly has enough mud to splatter many of his erstwhile US friends . |
| 26 | I admire them for being able to sit there in front of everybody and say they actually , what they 've been through because it must have been sheer hell er , trying to come off and withdrawal symptoms , I mean , I do n't know much about it cos I 've never taken well I smoke |
| 27 | Now that should have been front page news — a well-written piece I thoroughly enjoyed . |
| 28 | Without such research there would not have been effective vaccination , antibiotics , analgesics , anaesthetics , transplant surgery , brain imaging , intensive care for babies , and drugs for the treatment of psychiatric disorders . |
| 29 | In his second day of evidence before Sheriff Brian Lockhart , he said that that would have been good management . |
| 30 | For police warrants , normal methods of investigation must have been tried and failed and there must have been good reason to believe that interception would result in a conviction . |