Example sentences of "[adv] [vb mod] have [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they had been at liberty to quit the vessel at Cronstadt , the case would have been quite different ; or if the captain had capriciously discharged the two men who were wanting , the others might not have been compellable to take the whole duty upon themselves , and their agreeing to do so might have been a sufficient consideration for the promise of an advance of wages . |
| 2 | The trees thinned to reveal what once might have been a clearing but which now resembled only a poisonous-looking wilderness . |
| 3 | Despite the earlier declaration of principle , agriculture perhaps was an area where there always would have been a high probability of a clash of interests between supranationalism and national concerns . |
| 4 | By what route this strategy will proceed is unclear — technology swapping , OEM or other — however , the company admits that it probably would have been a good idea had Tandem Computers Inc and Pyramid had meshed their respective hardware and Unix software experience in that area two years ago . |
| 5 | And finally , a lot of games coming up , a lot of midweek games , so plenty of chance for United to erm continue to climb the table , although three points against the side on equal points really would have been a great bonus would n't it ? |
| 6 | I thought driving up today would have been a good day but the reality is that it is not going to start until Easter time . |
| 7 | On the conscious level , this was almost certainly not so , though deep down there may have been a certain complicity . |
| 8 | If Charlie had triggered it there 'd have been a big back-up of propaganda and so on . |
| 9 | For those in the middle of these events , there was in addition to the tension and the menace , a certain air of unreality ; this raises the part played by drugs , not merely in the emergence of a forceful counter-culture , but in the attitudes of plain straightforward young people to whom any kind of illicit substance a couple of years earlier would have been a complete mystery . |
| 10 | Had it been properly directed there would have been a good contract and A would have been liable in damages to B for not delivering the horse . |
| 11 | There was no torpedo on board when the aircraft crashed — no unexploded torpedo was found by the French , if the torpedo had exploded there would have been a tremendous explosion and the aircraft would have been totally destroyed . |
| 12 | What seeped out of the and mixed with some air from there would have been a little dung in it to it stood half the summer and got to be really high . |
| 13 | If he had taken her here on the couch a few minutes ago , as he had so nearly done , their abandonment to passion then would have been a mutual — equal — thing , but now he was back to being the dominant partner in what remained of their relationship , controlling it and her . |