Example sentences of "[modal v] have [be] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any academic learning at Stamford , therefore , must have been of limited scope and only the rebel students and masters between 1333 and 1335 ever issued degrees . |
| 2 | So Wilson 's work of ‘ Cader Idris ’ , even if only seen by Green as a print , must have been of seminal interest . |
| 3 | Fenella thought that it was a pity that Caspar was so scared of the giants , because he knew so much about Tara that he might have been of considerable help . |
| 4 | In Harry 's case , a pre-retirement course could have been of great value in encouraging him to accept his impending retirement and helping him decide how to redirect his energies before he finished working . |
| 5 | Had it been broad enough to have included the purpose of the great organised movement its contribution could have been of historical value . |
| 6 | For Cadafael , king of Gwynedd , Oswiu 's domination of the north Britons , perhaps particularly the Votadini , may have been of principal concern . |
| 7 | This , together with an appreciation of the steeper slopes , soil erosion and the local changes in level and aspect , make for a finer assessment of the subtler aspects which may have been of great significance to the original selector 's choice of site for the particular settlement under study . |
| 8 | The class of people for whom this may have been of paramount importance was not the traditional aristocracy which had never been involved in work , having merely inherited their estates , but those termed the nouveaux riches , the use of which term implies a much more direct involvement in the work process as the basis for capital accumulation . |
| 9 | They may have been of impermanent materials , such as wood , or the countries may have suffered greater devastation than their neighbours . |
| 10 | One must appreciate that with the passing of time all things progress ; what may have been of considerable interest to one generation may not be to the next . |
| 11 | It is likely too that the priest tidied up and eliminated any traces there may have been of disordered thinking or language , as he almost certainly corrected any theological mistakes , for his own safety . |
| 12 | But most importantly , no information was given on the location of recurrence of the disease which may have been of prognostic importance . |
| 13 | In answering this criticism Prince Charles would have been of impeccable good manners in employing the seven degrees of retort by Touchstone outlined in Shakespeare 's As You Like It . |
| 14 | For the next eighty years the argument that a tunnel under the silver streak of the Channel would pose a major security problem held sway , although a tunnel would have been of great advantage to Britain during the First World War . |
| 15 | The specimens you were so good as to send to me by Captain Lyon would have been a treasure had they arrived safe ; but his ship was taken by the French , so those were all lost , which is a great misfortune at this time , when they would have been of great service to me , in ascertaining the names of some plants which remain doubtful . |
| 16 | With hindsight , it is not difficult to imagine alternative uses for this fine estate which would have been of lasting benefit to the Association . |