Example sentences of "have been a [adj] one " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The decision to split the test may have been a political one . |
| 5 | Yeah , that would have been a good one . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A decade ago there would scarcely have been a single one . |
| 8 | Had it been a ploy it would have been a rewarding one , but Vanessa was not given to ploys . |
| 9 | The struggle can not have been a unique one . |
| 10 | No doubt the return would have been a high one and I have to take account of that . ’ |
| 11 | There should have been a yellow one too but the bulb had gone . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | That would have been a tough one to keep quiet . ’ |
| 14 | IT must have been a tough one for Cleo Rocos . |