Example sentences of "have been [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , for instance , improbable that , on a joint assessment of £133. 6s. 8d. , any of the three Thomases of Lavale would have been mere labourers . |
| 2 | In the early stages we started off with perhaps Minor schools which could almost have been Major ones , because you were just trying to find any school that had got some kind of life , or interest , or things happening … really in many ways it was rather a matter of chance because of the way it happened at the time . |
| 3 | Clearly , Harald was a highly-efficient organiser of labour and materials : the felling and transportation of the large quantities of timber used in the camps and at Ravning , for example , must have been major operations in themselves . |
| 4 | ’ If we were still in our own country , Andreas , a man like you would have been married years ago and you would have many children to delight you in your old age . ’ |
| 5 | The correct sentence would have been nine months ' detention in a young offender institution , and that sentence would be substituted . |
| 6 | It would have been nine wickets , but Lewis Eckett , editor of Club Horror , was Absent Without Leave . |
| 7 | There should have been real mountains , or no mountains at all . |
| 8 | In his zeal to demonstrate that the Conservatives were committed individualists Fforde refuses to accept that there may have been real disagreements within the party . |
| 9 | It could have been four years . |
| 10 | And she went on a party of three , no , no , she went with a party of four friends I think , there were five of them altogether and er she stayed for well er , three nights , four days , or four days , three nights I ca n't remember no , it must have been four days , four nights , three days . |
| 11 | If the non-transferable votes had been transferred in the same proportion there would have been insufficient transfers to Donnelly to ensure his election . |
| 12 | Although some of the Wealden towns may have been regional centres for craft specialisation , such as Battle with its leather working and shoemaking , most of them provided a wide range of services which allowed a high degree of virtual self-sufficiency to their surrounding areas . |
| 13 | That should have been six times nought point two over |
| 14 | Charlie heard the words , ‘ Carry on , Sergeant-Major , ’ and a moment later a man who must have been six feet six inches in height , and whose beer-barrel chest was covered in medal ribbons , took a pace forward . |
| 15 | It must have been six months ago , when he started stealing money from his uncle . ’ |
| 16 | There was no way of being certain how long she 'd spent on the ward ; it might have been six weeks or six years , but she was guessing at six months because this had been the first commission review that she 'd received . |
| 17 | If it had been a more crowded time there would have been unbelievable numbers , ’ he said . |
| 18 | The patient with chronic pain is often mentally depressed and there may have been adverse experiences such as sexual abuse or threatening life events . |
| 19 | ‘ My beloved husband died after a lingering illness on 29th April at 18 minutes past 4 o'clock in the morning … if he would have lived to the 25th August , he would have been 63 years old . ’ |
| 20 | For all I know they may have been part-time MPs , or they may have had a limited electorate to represent . |
| 21 | Oh it might have been eight pounds . |
| 22 | Besides , there is good evidence that the crocodiles of that time were much faster-moving reptiles than their dinosaur contemporaries — indeed , the ancestors of modern crocodiles may have been nimble land-animals , since to this day crocodiles have an ankle structure typical of a rapid terrestrial carnivore . |
| 23 | Derek seems to remember that it was shortly after this change that a couple of what could have been nasty instances occurred . |
| 24 | Bailey ( 1981 ) considered that the source of the Ba-Pb-Zn vein mineralisation hosted by Lower Ordovician shales in the Shropshire orefield could have been connate brines from the Welsh Basin . |
| 25 | As I use Taskmax and Windows 3 , both of which use SWAP designations , these would have been primary candidates for missing disk space , except in both cases the swap areas are allocated to E : \WIN — a subdirectory on a 3Mb RAM drive . |
| 26 | Judging from the ensembles in which their names appear , the instruments they are listed as playing in other ballet livrets , and the inventories of instruments that some of the royal wind players had in their possession at their deaths , they must all have been versatile performers on several instruments . |
| 27 | Rachaela could imagine Emma would have been all congratulations and the joys of womanhood . |
| 28 | ‘ But that noise need n't have been a retch — could have been all sorts of things . ’ |
| 29 | Normally there would have been two solicitors covering police stations at Stockton , Middlesbrough , Thornaby , South Bank , Redcar and Guisborough . |
| 30 | Some confusion exists as to the original scratchplate , and there may well have been two variations . |