Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [modal v] have [been] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Old Darlington was quite some place to live in and I reckon daily life must have been some sort of gamble , ’ said Joan . |
| 2 | It is tempting to think that one of these robbed tombs may have been that of Imhotep , buried near to the king he had served . |
| 3 | In uniform she looked very dignified and very nice , and she ran Casualty so efficiently that without her various little ways her professional skill would have been enough to account for her already being a hospital legend in her own lifetime . |
| 4 | Mostly these errors would have been such that the new macromolecule could not reproduce itself and eventually would have been destroyed . |
| 5 | Clearly Adalard 's influence was great ( Nithard was not alone in identifying Ermentrude as " Adalard 's niece " rather than as the daughter of Count Odo of Orléans , Adalard 's brother-in-law , though an obvious reason could have been that Odo had died eight years before , perhaps leaving Ermentrude in her uncle 's care ) . |
| 6 | A reasonable defence might have been that field sports were preferable to roaming the docks but , instead , the chief rabbi was assured that the boys needed the exercise . |
| 7 | Meteorologists have confirmed that , for the first time in years , the prevailing winter winds were easterly , and a navy hydrographer said the surface area of the submerged craft would have been enough to act as a sail and counter the current . |
| 8 | It was that simple , and at a more leisurely pace would have been less of a caper and more a proper holiday . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the saving of water this system would have produced as compared with normal lockage would have been little more than 50 per cent , a benefit that would hardly justify the installation of the lift if water saving was the main object . |
| 10 | Alternatively , the power of religious belief may have been such that each community gave as much as it could afford . |
| 11 | It must be confessed that it is really difficult to pinpoint the precise locations of these ancient workings , which , at that time may have been little else than shallow holes on the outcrops . |
| 12 | According to a correspondent of The Graphic , these 19th-century visitors must have been little different from today's-instead of gasping at the 70-kilometre vista spread before them , their first reaction on arrival at the top was to write commemorative postcards . |
| 13 | ‘ The next step should have been some form of close supervision . ’ |