Example sentences of "have been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ It would n't have been much use if she had . |
| 32 | If the non-transferable votes had been transferred in the same proportion there would have been insufficient transfers to Donnelly to ensure his election . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | They could have sent me to prison for two years but that would have been political suicide . ’ |
| 35 | To have taken on the world in that state would have been political suicide . |
| 36 | However , despite this evidence , prosecution would have been political suicide since the defendants might have argued that civil servants and certain government ministers knew of the oil sanctions-busting arrangements and therefore the company considered their actions , although technically illegal , were informally condoned by governmental officials . |
| 37 | That should have been six times nought point two over |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | Although my father was six foot two , Geoffrey Archer seemed a real giant ; he must have been six foot four and broad in proportion , but he was a kind giant , having an instinctive sympathy with small boys . |
| 40 | Well we had to keep somebody on watch in case there was any damage , say the ship was up the river and a chain broke or they hit you , so you had to put your navigation lights up and to put navigation lights up we had hurricane lamps , we had a red and a white one , they should have been six foot apart , they never were they was about three foot . |
| 41 | He must have been six foot four , with a frame to match . |
| 42 | It must have been six months ago , when he started stealing money from his uncle . ’ |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | If it had been a more crowded time there would have been unbelievable numbers , ’ he said . |
| 45 | Robertson 's drive over the bar and Klinsmann 's shot , astutely blocked by Walker , ensured that there would have been adolescent opposition to the idea of an early exit while there was so much to appreciate . |
| 46 | The patient with chronic pain is often mentally depressed and there may have been adverse experiences such as sexual abuse or threatening life events . |
| 47 | There must have been 5,000 head corralled into convoy formation by a quartet of big black dogs . |
| 48 | But John-William had bought so much land at Far Flatley from Colonel Covington-Pym , a whole bank of his river and several fields beyond that there would have been ample room to build Gemma and Tristan a dear little nest . |
| 49 | ‘ By the time the doors opened there must have been 100 people . |
| 50 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 51 | ’ It could have been lover-boy Gharr . ’ |
| 52 | For all I know they may have been part-time MPs , or they may have had a limited electorate to represent . |
| 53 | Oh it might have been eight pounds . |
| 54 | it might have been eight pound qui Judy , but she said that they had fifteen |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | The label on the bottle bore a picture of Dr MacLaren , who looked as if he might have been personal physician to Mr Gladstone . |
| 57 | There may have been personal antipathy involved , although Mancini 's account reads rather like an attempt to rationalize a hostility which he could not explain — as does More 's bland assertion that women commonly hate their husband 's best friends . |
| 58 | There may have been personal antipathy involved , although Mancini 's account reads rather like an attempt to rationalize a hostility which he could not explain — as does More 's bland assertion that women commonly hate their husband 's best friends . |
| 59 | Derek seems to remember that it was shortly after this change that a couple of what could have been nasty instances occurred . |
| 60 | The signature looked like Spiggy Meu but it could have been Spiggy Lee . |