Example sentences of "have been a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these factors reduce the response rate , no matter how good the original sample may have been , so that what may have been a reasonable one-in-five sample to begin with ends up as nearer one-in-ten actually obtained , because of losses . |
| 2 | There may even have been a certain temperamental affinity between Baden-Powell 's Scouting philosophy and the restless energies of Hooliganism , and he was even so outrageous as to recommend the Hooligans to the National Defence Association as ‘ the best class of boy ’ : Predictably , his remarks invited the characteristic reversal of the problem , when a member of the National Defence Association asked : |
| 3 | It is another which may have been a christianised pagan ritual , evolved from dancing round a sacred site or stone on which a church was eventually built . |
| 4 | Although it could have been a genuine geographical variation , the fear was that staff were failing to record them because they thought this might lead to unresolvable problems which would jeopardise planning . |
| 5 | There should have been a nice young man on the Sunningdale marriage circuit , and then a nice house in Ascot , and probably a cottage in Devon , and two boys at a good preparatory school in Surrey . |
| 6 | ‘ You could have been a well-brought-up sex-mad pervert . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ For once , not Rosemary , though I 'm getting more and more desperate about not knowing what to do for the best , ’ he confessed , but went on to explain , ‘ I spent a lot of time yesterday in realising that I must have been a real wet blanket when Naylor announced your engagement on Saturday . ’ |
| 8 | Good lighting , a picture or two or a rug fixed to the end wall will give a whole new lease of life to what could have been a boring dead end . |
| 9 | This could not have been a simple financial investment , as the Grand Junction had manifestly no prospect of making any profit ; although its paid up capital was £420,000 , it was sold in 1894 for £6,500 . |
| 10 | Although imperfect marketing has been cited by historians as the reason for Victor 's failure , in fact there may have been a simple operational reason . |
| 11 | THE CAPTAIN had had what for ordinary mortals would have been a trying two days . |
| 12 | In the past , the publication of such a book would have been a major professional event . |
| 13 | It has been suggested that the Bredcroft site might have been a small sub-Roman settlement in the period between the decline of Great Casterton and the growth of Stamford . |
| 14 | There is also a small late building on a totally different alignment ( almost east-west ) which could perhaps have been a small Christian shrine , erected to counteract pagan influence . |
| 15 | In the early 1870s a six-week round trip for two people from London via Belgium , the Rhine Valley , Switzerland and France — perhaps still the standard tourist itinerary — cost about £85 , or roughly 20 per cent of the income of a man earning £8 a week , which would have been a respectable servant-keeping income in those days . |
| 16 | Hawkshead must have been a fascinating crowded place on market days . |
| 17 | The third is the possibility , suggested also by Katib Celebi 's account of the office and supported to some degree by several contemporary documents , that there may have been a separate official muftilik of Edirne during the period : unfortunately , so shadowy is the evidence for its existence that as matters now stand it merely adds to the confusion , though could the facts about it be discovered , they might go some way toward resolving some of the problems in this vexed period . |
| 18 | Katib Celebi 's assertion that Abdulkerim was Mufti in Edirne , however , adds yet another unknown to an already difficult set of equations since it suggests the possibility that there may have been a separate official muftilik in Edirne ( and perhaps by extension in Bursa ) concurrently with the Muftilik of Istanbul — this would run contrary to the underlying assumption of the traditional view that the Mufti was the Mufti of the capital , successively Bursa , Edirne and Istanbul some of the holders of which may have become , with the passage of time , confused with the holders of the Muftilik of Istanbul . |
| 19 | Both dorsals must have been a good twelve inches clear of the water . |
| 20 | ‘ But it would not have been a good cosmetic result . |
| 21 | ‘ But it would not have been a good cosmetic result . |
| 22 | Whether his survival was that of a cynical trimmer or one who had a paramount belief in the idea of the royal supremacy is impossible to determine , but he can not have been a good parochial pastor because of his persistent plurality . |
| 23 | In its heyday it must have been a good little vehicle , but now it was definitely finished . |
| 24 | Certainly dinosaur bulkiness , dictated by biogeographical and ancestral factors , would have been a continuing dangerous handicap on a planet with Earth-like gravity . |
| 25 | ‘ And you would have been a ready-made rich lady , and not have to marry a gentleman . ’ |
| 26 | What should have been a triumphant closing ceremony turned into an embarrassing muddle , so much so that Polish television switched to a football match . |
| 27 | In principle , there should have been a considerable democratic element . |
| 28 | In other words , the original Sadducees would have been a devout dynastic priesthood closely associated with at least the principle of an expected Davidic Messiah . |
| 29 | Skomer Island off the Dyfed ( formerly Pembrokeshire ) coast was chosen as the specific target as it should by now have been a statutory Marine Nature Reserve . |
| 30 | But it could have been a whole smashed-up dinner service for the row it caused . ’ |