Example sentences of "in [art] [noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His forecasting staff in the Treasury might have been better suited to dreaming up horoscopes , and at times officials seem to have been deliberately distorting figures for political ends . |
| 2 | The inclusion of Nicholas Ferrar in the ASB may have been clinched by the popularity within the Church of T. S. Eliot 's later works , and in particular of the poem ‘ Little Gidding ’ in his Four Quartets . |
| 3 | By mid 1994 every person in the Company should have been involved with an important and meaningful piece of TOP improvement activity . |
| 4 | During the ensuing days every Ras and chieftain in the country must have been camped in and around Addis Ababa . |
| 5 | Once the peat has gone in such places , some land may be insufficiently fertile even for growing potatoes , and the very best land in the country will have been reduced to mineral soils of only average quality . |
| 6 | If the European Court of Human Rights had confirmed the view of the Commission , changes in the law would have been called for , at least so as to allow for alteration of all relevant documentation . |
| 7 | Even before the main fast link to the tunnel , via Stratford has been built , the proposals in the Bill will have been implemented . |
| 8 | And then the person doing the raffle the person in the door should have been the same . |
| 9 | The offer of £1 , from Gold Cup sponsors TNT for the first side to score goals in the competition must have been tempting to the Reds , who more than doubled their tally for the season to date on Friday . |
| 10 | To be locked inextricably in the overhang would have been nearly as disastrous as a dismasting . |
| 11 | ‘ Those carvings in the museum must have been tossed out with the rubble when they dug this place , ’ she suggested to Benny . |
| 12 | They reckoned then that anything in the river would have been sent half way across to Norway so that put paid to that search . |
| 13 | If the island did become detached in the way he suggests , then the mountainous regions in the south would have been separated far longer than the northern parts . |
| 14 | He says that the circumstance might have existed as it did , the other events and conditions in the universe might have been as they were , and there might have been no smell . |
| 15 | If we sort of reverse things in our minds eye , and look backwards into the past history of the universe , we can come to a time where apparently all the material in the universe would have been on top of itself , that it would all have been squeezed into a point , and this moment sometimes people call the big bang , or the initial singularity . |
| 16 | Many are run by design graduates from Newcastle Polytechnic , who in the past might have been forced to move to the south-east to find a career in design . |
| 17 | The voting decisions of most Americans in the past will have been very uninformed . |
| 18 | Even the soldiers in the field must 've been thoroughly sick of all those whining pieces about Our Boys and Girls , and their mail , or the endlessly recycled nonsense about how hard it was to be a female soldier in Saudi Arabia . |
| 19 | Their own losses in the battle may have been heavy , and they possibly wished to honour their dead and provide for their salvation . |
| 20 | It was just that in the end would have been so far the other side of six weeks as to be out of sight , and she could n't stand any more writs , summonses or legal documents in long brown envelopes . |
| 21 | This hidey-hole in the house may have been cunningly and expertly contrived , but it was a bleak and dismal place for a man of thirty to live in . |
| 22 | A layer high in the sequence will have been deposited later than a lower one , and , provided there has been no disturbance , the artefacts in the higher level will be younger than those underlying . |
| 23 | We agreed and continued our tour out of the church , following the snow-covered , pebbled paths past the Chapter House , dormitory , rear dorter , monks ' kitchen , into the abbot 's garden ; the latter was enclosed by a high brick wall and carpeted by snow but in the summer must have been beautiful . |
| 24 | With hindsight it is arguable that the relationship between the panel , the coordinating committee and those in positions of authority for inservice provision in the county should have been much more precisely defined . |
| 25 | Nor , it seemed , did they even suspect the existence of Station X. After all , Bletchley was an important railway junction , and the lines gleaming in the moonlight could have been an aid to enemy reconnaissance planes and bombers . |
| 26 | Many of the specimen trees which are still in the park were almost certainly planted by Webb at the time , and the elegant arched orangery in the garden must have been built to his designs . |
| 27 | And to slip in the mud must have been the last straw . |
| 28 | Perhaps the thought of a coffee morning was too much for men ( pie and a pint in the local might have been more enticing ! ) . |
| 29 | That just shows graphically what the change in the workload would have been . |
| 30 | Significantly , some of the most illuminating comments in the book would have been excised if Hughes had pursued his task with quite the systematic rigour he commends . |