Example sentences of "have been a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Madeira became , however , the temporary home for 2,000 Gibraltarians evacuated to Funchal and their arrival relieved what might have been a financially distressing situation resulting from the lack of tourists . |
| 2 | He would have been a jolly good permanent secretary . |
| 3 | ‘ Must have been a jolly brave chap , Prescott , ’ said the lieutenant . |
| 4 | At the time of its foundation it must have been a serenely beautiful sight to behold — spreading golden-white stonework set amid the pastoral Lincolnshire greens . |
| 5 | But Mr Clinton had an additional burden ; he came to power at what would have been a singularly difficult moment for any American president . |
| 6 | Burning down the factory would have been a pretty foolproof method . ’ |
| 7 | It must have been a pretty hefty bit of storm damage . |
| 8 | This may have been a drastically altered Saxon church ; there are Saxon windowheads elsewhere in the fabric , but the Norman windows clearly do not date the fabric of the north chancel wall . |
| 9 | Independent Producers may not have been a particularly well-managed production outfit but the filmmakers had developed sufficient self-discipline to ensure that , while the films might become increasingly expensive , they were always tightly constructed and realized the potential in their subject matter . |
| 10 | ( But it has recently been pointed out that occasional use of these as cavalrymen means they can not have been a wholly depressed class . ) |
| 11 | I think if Dvořák knew his First Symphony was being regularly played he would not have been entirely happy , for undoubtedly had he revised it , it would have been a wholly different work , and probably shorter . |
| 12 | So he ought , thought Sally-Anne , and so he is , and , desperate to change the conversation , to steer it away from dangerous ground , she said , as brightly as she could , through numb lips , ‘ Sha n't we miss the last horse bus home if we do n't leave soon ? ’ thinking how fortunate it was that Stair had not told Dr Neil the other heiress 's identity — Sally-Anne Tunstall might have been a dead give-away ; she really ought to have changed her Christian name . |
| 13 | ‘ I could have been a little hasty in my diagnosis , ’ Arty allowed with an embarrassed smile . |
| 14 | Digital Equipment Corp realises that it may have been a little hasty in taking its toys away in a huff , and has returned to the Technology Plc fold by re-appointing the Warrington-based company as a value-added reseller for predominantly desktop and server products : DEC withdrew its business , when Technology was acquired by ICL Plc in July 1992 ( CI No 1,966 ) ; Technology has now joined DEC 's Corporate Reseller Programme , and , according to DEC UK 's director of complementary solutions organisation sales , Ian Smith , the company is expected to ‘ play a key role in our increasingly value-added reseller-led product selling strategy ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ But , given your aunt 's absent-mindedness , do n't you think it might have been a little premature to call in the police ? ’ |
| 16 | Just because I may have been a little short-tempered of late — ’ |
| 17 | She thought : I should at least have been a little drunk . |
| 18 | It , er , it might have been a little awkward for me — meeting someone who might … might be waiting for a bus , or a taxi . ’ |
| 19 | But there could have been a little more hope if Huddersfield referee Steve Bell had given a penalty when David Cork was manhandled to the ground in the six yard box when Quakers were looking for an equaliser . |
| 20 | He thought she should have been a little quieter under the circumstances . |
| 21 | The man behind the desk would have been a little younger than himself . |
| 22 | The girl must have been a little older , also dark-skinned . ’ |
| 23 | Things might have been a little different if Tony Crosland had still been at the Department of Education and Science , but I doubt it . |
| 24 | THE FIRST meeting between President Bill Clinton of the United States and the Prime Minister , John Major , in Washington on Wednesday would probably have been a rather strained encounter a week or two ago . |
| 25 | Two black leather chesterfields faced each other across a low glass-topped table bearing a cylindrical flower vase of highly polished stainless steel surrounded by three slimmer and smaller cylinders of the same material , which , empty , could have been a rather large cruet set , but the true function of which was illustrated by the pure white candles , long and pointed , which emerged from their upper openings . |
| 26 | He must have been a rather remarkable Permanent Secretary — I should like to know more about him . |
| 27 | All he 's worried about is getting wickets , and he 's , as I think I said yesterday he starts to feel a bit frustrated with his lax control , the ball flows all over the place and then somehow or other he 's got at the , the real quality batsmen in the opposition side , he 's got DaSilva out , might have been a slightly lucky dismissal caught down the leg side and he 's got him out and he 's done that in every match he 's played , he 's given away runs pretty rapidly , but he keeps getting vital wickets as well . |
| 28 | This must have been a most amazing sight , coming as it did as the climax of a much longer event staged beforehand outside Wanstead House itself . |
| 29 | Most importantly , there was a cluster of writers , directors , actors and critics who gathered around an idea of a realistic , passionate , intellectual theatre which would have been a most fertile ground for Burton . |
| 30 | Mr. Fairfax would have been a most difficult customer in all senses of the word . |