Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] be the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Dr Hensman , who should have been the most astonished ( and perhaps secretly was ) joined in the game . |
| 2 | Perhaps it is a reflection on the economic failure of communism that its greatest status symbol should have been the most precious household item of the unemployed in the West . |
| 3 | My expressing some Fear of being troublesome in coming so frequently , occasioned a great Variety of Invitations , both in Verse and Prose ; which I could seldom resist : And indeed her whole Behaviour to me was so extremely good-natur 'd and obliging , that I must have been the most ungrateful Person in the World , if I had not endeavour 'd to make some Return . |
| 4 | It must have been the most bewildering social change since the Enclosures , and yet I can find no reference to it in the village School Log . |
| 5 | Tremayne said robustly , ‘ My dearest girl , it must have been the most dreadful accident . |
| 6 | This independence and opportunity for large profit must have been the most important distinction between riches and grinding poverty and must have played a greater part in creating the economic hierarchy of rural society than any other factor . |
| 7 | Twenty years back he must have been the most exciting man any girl could hope to meet , in or out of the British Army . |
| 8 | The Backs always attracted me , even in a winter fog , and we eventually found ourselves in King 's College Chapel for what I think must have been the very first of the annual carol concerts . |
| 9 | It was during the summer months of 1968 that my father first began taking me to Walton junction , Liverpool to see what must have been the very last of the steam trains thunder past at 7 o'clock . |
| 10 | That 's what I 'm saying , they need , they need just a little , in fact we do here you could argue , er , I feel that all the elements there are of a turning into something a bit ugly , I think , I think they were very quick to drop those statues down , now I know , I know the fellow who in , who set up the K G B could have been the most popular bloke in the Soviet Union , but nonetheless , er he was down within a day , I hear this morning that Yeltsin 's talking about border changes and quite frankly they 're moving too quick and Gorbachev at least was providing a bit of restraint , and I think it , they want to think in terms of decade . |
| 11 | Apart from the few noises I made on the path , all I could hear was the very occasional and distant roar of heavy trucks on the road through town . |
| 12 | Indeed , I think that the painters , just because they needed to work in studios , may have been the least prominent members of this society . |
| 13 | Herbert may have been the less surprised since Robin says that one of Belle 's brothers was homosexual , and so was one of Herbert 's brothers although , in his case , married and the father of three children . |
| 14 | Free from the forests and swamps of the lowlands they would have been the most healthy as well as the most defensible homesteads for prehistoric man . |
| 15 | On the other hand there is much reason to suppose that , had there been no major threat to the Eurasian balance of power , trade and other economic differences would have been the most prominent issue , particularly if those in the United States who favoured multilateral and freer trade had gained sufficient backing for their policies at home . |
| 16 | Malcolm Harris , who would have been the most vigorous protester , was not present , but Peter Hickton , acting on the author 's behalf , remonstrated . |
| 17 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 18 | Then we went in to Hamish and Tone 's for tea and apologies , and later drove to the castle for what would have been the most excruciating interval of my life if Verity and Lewis had still been there , but they were n't ; they had taken off in the car to visit some friends of Verity 's who lived in Ardnamurchan , and would n't be back until late tomorrow at the earliest . |
| 19 | If he had played in the match he would have been the least accurate driver , the player missing the most greens in regulation and the worst bunker player on the team . |
| 20 | This road takes you through what I would say was the most savage landscape you are likely to see in the Pyrenees without actually setting off into the mountains on foot , a valley which has rocks where other valleys have trees . |