Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] have [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that Gorbachev sent the old Stalinist Andrei Gromyko to perform the pinning on of the award must have been scant compensation for what Ceauşescu probably saw as a badge of his growing servitude to Moscow . |
| 2 | All the superintendent must have are reasonable grounds for believing that an offence is a serious arrestable one ; this safeguard , therefore , is obviated where the police think one of these vague and undefined consequences might occur . |
| 3 | The bruises on her tender bottom should have been visual signs of her hatred of him . |
| 4 | The only place for his desk would have been opposite mine , with the light over his left shoulder . |
| 5 | The vendor may have been Pantell S.A. The vendor may have been Swiss Atlantic Holdings Ltd. , a U.K. company , on whose behalf Pantell S.A. was , under an agreement dated 1 March 1988 , authorised to sell Euramco shares to the investing public on a commission basis . |
| 6 | A booking would have been sufficient punishment . |
| 7 | Besides , filling hot water bottles was not man 's work — fetching coal , sawing wood , even opening a bottle of wine would have been suitable occupations for Rupert to be discovered in , but not this . |
| 8 | Another half-exception may have been Bonar Law . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A purist could argue that it was class and function that set these store owners up for assault , but on the streets , in the full fury of those 48 hours , stretching from the mid-afternoon Wednesday verdict in Simi Valley , any Korean would have been fair game . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A short-term contract would have been ideal experience . ’ |
| 13 | This route would have been wishful thinking to the classical organic chemist hut the reaction proceeds readily in the presence of rhodium , one of the rarest metals , and of iodine , which act together as a catalyst system . |
| 14 | To have taken on the world in that state would have been political suicide . |
| 15 | For them , the primary concern would have been dynastic legitimacy — the installation on the throne of Israel of her rightful king and , when that failed , perpetuation of the royal bloodline intact . |
| 16 | Thin layer chromatography ( TLC ) is considered in some detail ; although paper chromatography and electrophoresis would have been useful additions . |
| 17 | ‘ The court sees no ground for saying that , for present purposes , it makes the slightest difference whether under the old law the offence would have been false pretences or larceny by a trick . |
| 18 | It is true that it would make no difference whether under the old law the offence would have been false pretences or larceny by a trick , provided the charge was laid under section 15(1) . |
| 19 | Your sister will have been busy rehearsing , must be a hectic time for her . |
| 20 | The initial reason must have been Protestant fears of what Henri II , using his daughter-in-law , might do after the treaty of Chateau-Cambrèsis ; the public Protestant call to arms and the private and tentative contact with England were part of the same desperate reaction to a situation which left the Protestants no more time to move slowly , and forced them into overt action against the regent — the representative of legitimate authority — and , perhaps , a covert move against her daughter — the legitimate authority . |
| 21 | A penalty would have been sufficient punishment . |
| 22 | In two patients the cause of anaemia may have been menstrual loss because they both settled after menstruation had stopped . |
| 23 | Bailey ( 1981 ) considered that the source of the Ba-Pb-Zn vein mineralisation hosted by Lower Ordovician shales in the Shropshire orefield could have been connate brines from the Welsh Basin . |
| 24 | Moreover , Mary had a matter of her own to digest which at any other time would have been sufficient preoccupation . |
| 25 | It is generally accepted that each person , man and woman , is made up of both masculine and feminine qualities , and it appears that in some lifetimes the masculine will have been predominant while in others it will have been the feminine . |