Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [vb mod] have [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , but that that may have been a once in a lifetime thing . |
| 2 | He projects well in the Légende , but here , too , a more ravishing sound-quality would have been desirable . |
| 3 | There was much that might have been better concealed , not least the ugliness of wartime necessity that had yet to be cleared away . |
| 4 | What could legitimately be described as ‘ dubious tactics ’ on Malham Cove in the early 70s would have been regarded as quite normal in the early 60s and would be considered style of pathological purity in the 90s . |
| 5 | Although Peter returned to help you finish that tour , the early '70s must have been fraught with looking for replacements , before you crystallised the line-up with Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks … |
| 6 | I mean er much more should have been something should have been Aye he 's well worth er within the engineering world at least , well worth looking into his life really . |
| 7 | HMS Gloucester shot down the missile … just seconds before the ship and it 's crew of thirteen hundred would have been destroyed . |
| 8 | However gratifying this may have been for Stirling , one distinct step was taken to clip his wings and stop his independent lobby of senior officers . |
| 9 | Three three would have been just about right but with just four minutes to go Wycombe went and won it … |
| 10 | Three three would have been just about right but with just four minutes to go Wycombe went and won it … |
| 11 | One day , while we were sitting around having some coffee with a few other actors , he suddenly said , ‘ Of course The Magnificent Seven would have been nothing without me . ’ |
| 12 | All that would have been his years ago when Jonas had had to be put away ; it was as though fate had conspired to ruin both of them . |
| 13 | ‘ To have blown them after all that would have been awful . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ And to think , all that could have been mine . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I know it 's hard to accept , Dawn , but all that could have been done has been done . |
| 16 | This is the job of the dealer … providing you buy from a reputable source , you can be sure this will have been done for you . |
| 17 | Orkney , like most of his breed , is not sure this should have been allowed . |
| 18 | Although I 'm sure this could have been achieved with permanently named shirts and removable ( Velcro ? ) numbers . |
| 19 | How cosy this could have been , the rain lashing down outside providing a curtain from the world and the two of them here with no occupation except to pleasure each other . |
| 20 | ‘ And so , ’ said Floy , looking at Fenella , wondering how all this might have been received on Renascia , ‘ and so , we will set off . ’ |
| 21 | I suppose all this would have been welcome in happier times . |
| 22 | All this would have been done within two hours of receiving the order . |
| 23 | All this would have been bad enough , even without another little trick nature had up its sleeve : the weather . |
| 24 | All this would have been unthinkable in the 1930s ; though , as Paul Addison has pointed out , there were signs that a progressivist tide of ‘ middle opinion ’ was rising gently , nevertheless the speed with which these developments occurred after 1940 must be attributed to the peculiar conditions brought about by the war . |
| 25 | If she decides to go straight home all this will have been for nothing . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ All this could have been done in commercial machinery shops , but it would have cost a fortune , ’ he says . |
| 27 | If you had done your job properly , been a decent husband , then all this could have been avoided . ’ |
| 28 | All this should have been enough to turn us from a nation of householders into a nation of shareholders . |
| 29 | The taxing code works without difficulty and the trustees would be assessed jointly — Lord Keith in Dawson v IRC referred to the fact that if all the trustees " had been resident in the United Kingdom application of the enactment would have been such that the income would have been treated as arising or accruing to all three , and all three would have been jointly assessable to tax " . |
| 30 | A 20 kiloton bomb killed 1 million people and many thousands would have been blinded while more would suffer cancer , leukaemia and various other diseases caused by this gross destruction . |