Example sentences of "have been a [adj] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Maybe I was worried that someone else would read my diary , but if so this worry could only have been a slight one : I was much too careful to afford anyone the opportunity to snoop .
2 It could not have been a bleaker one .
3 Such an equilibrium could only have been a temporary one , being based upon the fear of a common enemy , rather than on a positive material joint interest .
4 The spectacle , however , must have been a splendid one : Froissart records that the king and his queen ( Jeanne de Bourbon ) were accompanied by King Peter of Cyprus , King Wenceslas of Bohemia and the duke of Brabant , the dukes of Burgundy and Anjou and the counts of Eu , Dampmartin , Tancarville and Vaudemont .
5 ‘ It would have been a greater one to have visited you in person .
6 The decision to split the test may have been a political one .
7 Yeah , that would have been a good one .
8 William Symons must have been a wild one for in July of the same year he and Elizabeth Cole also of Halling , were both bound over for twenty shillings to appear at the next gaol delivery .
9 A decade ago there would scarcely have been a single one .
10 Had it been a ploy it would have been a rewarding one , but Vanessa was not given to ploys .
11 The struggle can not have been a unique one .
12 No doubt the return would have been a high one and I have to take account of that . ’
13 There should have been a yellow one too but the bulb had gone .
14 When I got home I found , among the mountain of letters ( mainly telling me I had filled in a blue form when it should have been a yellow one or asking for information I had already given ) , one from the BBC asking me to get in touch with the Punters office in Bristol as soon as possible .
15 That would have been a tough one to keep quiet . ’
16 IT must have been a tough one for Cleo Rocos .
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