Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb mod] [verb] been in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the May heatwave my feet were considerably cooler and less sweaty than they would have been in leather boots . |
| 2 | THE terrifying Jurassic Park dinosaurs were much noisier in the film than they would have been in real life , a scientist said today . |
| 3 | Modern tackle has given today 's anglers a great advantage and simple things such as float control are now much easier than they must have been in the silk line and gut era . |
| 4 | This order now provides for the full year 's 4.1 per cent increase to be applied from April to the October rates , even though they will have been in place for only six months . |
| 5 | They are not linked in other ways , as they might have been in the past , as in mining villages , by other common bonds of interests . |
| 6 | There are two types of proposition in Freud 's theory which are not always as clearly distinguished as they might have been in his writing . |
| 7 | Sitwell provides an extended description of the gardens as they would have been in Susanna Jennens 's lifetime , a summary of the more interesting volumes in the library , and a general inventory of the house from Dutch paintings to kitchen pewter . |
| 8 | In contrast to this static , theatrical production , during the last weekend of the 1988 York Festival the last four mystery plays were re-enacted as they would have been in the fifteenth century . |
| 9 | In my position , there was no difficulty in so doing ; for they accepted my reality , and I was as much a mythical creature in their world as they would have been in mine . |
| 10 | ‘ But I 'm convinced they wo n't be as confident about coming to Irvinestown as they would have been in previous seasons . |
| 11 | The same thing is seen in a more hesitant form on another boy ( fig. 71 ) , and here the very slight tilt and turn of the head are part of a change in the pose of the whole figure , as they must have been in the fair-haired boy also . |
| 12 | Despite the numbers of scientists involved , physical geographers have not perhaps been as prominent as they should have been in the investigation of the human impact upon soil systems . |