Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [modal v] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Atlantis was discussed in the Timaeus may have been significant , but it was not crucial . |
| 2 | The Pentagon would have been furious at losing an agent as well as a major mission , but there was little or nothing it could say or do to put things right without acknowledging that Coleman was an agent and thereby admitting that , for the better part of two years , the DIA had been spying , not on the country 's official enemies , but on other agencies of the United States government . |
| 3 | The WRU could have been diplomatic and should have consulted officials from the clubs concerned after the last 16 matches to see what they wanted instead . |
| 4 | The Golf tickets are of particular interest , the B.C.Rly may have been unique in this respect . |
| 5 | So Iraq has now formally asked the Turks to shorten the cut-off period but the Turks reply that they have been releasing more water down the river and the Iraquis should have been able to build up stocks . |
| 6 | There were by then ‘ splendid edifices ’ in London , Oxford , Cambridge , Manchester and Glasgow , and to retain researchers at the RI would have been impossible without new accommodation for their research . |
| 7 | ‘ The FA should have been brave and made a decision either to eliminate Peterborough or allow the 9-1 result to stand . |
| 8 | I heard no more officially from the regiment , though on return visits to the Morvan area representatives of the S.A.S. will have been anxious to find out anything they could . |
| 9 | The Fourniers must have been mad — I have ruined their party . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , if I had lost you , the Kha-Khan would have been displeased with me . |