Example sentences of "have [be] [adj] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Dichter would have been proud of that piece of depth thinking . |
| 2 | The proud possessor of a fragment of the Infant Jesus 's vest , a toy he had once played with ( Benjamin would have been proud of that ) , and a hair from St Peter 's beard which could cure the ague or a sore throat . |
| 3 | The old USSR would have been proud of such central control . |
| 4 | The late Ray Petri would have been proud of this issue . |
| 5 | Big Daddy would have been proud of this tackle on Dave Mitchell , but the ref waved play on . |
| 6 | A West Point cadet would have been proud of those shoes already . |
| 7 | How could he have been capable of such cruelty ? |
| 8 | Hill must have been typical of many mid-Victorian medics who reorientated their social and political allegiances as a result of a shift in class and professional status . |
| 9 | The wealth of other trades was on a much smaller scale , one that can not have been untypical of most provincial communities . |
| 10 | He had normal hearing all his life and would have been unaware of deaf people if he had not been " adopted " as a young orphan by the Rev J Jennings , a deaf mute minister and founder of the South London Gospel Mission to the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 11 | Under the old law of larceny he may not have been guilty of attempted larceny . |
| 12 | Given the Committee 's proposals on buggery , this would have meant that a man who procured a woman 's submission to anal intercourse by threats other than of violence would not necessarily have been guilty of any offence . |
| 13 | Without the qualification , Johnson felt the remark would have been devoid of enjoyable meaning . |
| 14 | He must have been aware of that . |
| 15 | It appears that the scent of these oils can affect the etheric body , perhaps creating the right atmosphere for particular states of consciousness , and ancient peoples may have been aware of this . |
| 16 | While individual officers may indeed have been aware of this work , consideration of it did not form part of the policy-making . |
| 17 | English churchmen , who must have been aware of these activities , were sometimes also familiar with the conditions which gave rise to them . |
| 18 | John Smith would have been aware of those risks yesterday . |
| 19 | The scales had fallen from her eyes and she saw all too clearly what perhaps she should have been aware of earlier . |
| 20 | However , they would not necessarily have been conscious of this if they were in an ordinary environment with normal background sounds . |
| 21 | Ely , for example , had already received the bulk of the lands it held in 1086 , and the same may well have been true of other foundations such as Glastonbury , Abingdon and the Old and New Minsters in Winchester . |
| 22 | says Clare about his native Helpston in the years after its enclosure , and that must have been true of most parishes that underwent the great transformation . |
| 23 | This may have been true of strict Evangelicals , particularly the Calvinists , the dissenting groups such as the Plymouth Brethren , but in the population of the cities where churchgoing had fallen steeply , fire and brimstone were losing their power to terrify . |
| 24 | Blagg would have been dead of old age before we got clearance . ’ |
| 25 | He saw Preobrazhensky as viewing the problem only in terms of struggle and confrontation , which would have been disruptive of social equilibrium . |
| 26 | Even the chickens must have been ashamed of those parts of their bodies when they were alive . |
| 27 | A few years ago any self respecting farmer would have been ashamed of this field , with its bumper crop of nettles and thistles … |