Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [num] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to aviation officials the A-300 should have been 1,500 feet higher at the point where it crashed into a jagged mountain face . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He must have been six foot four , with a frame to match . |
| 5 | The wave must have been fifteen feet high . |
| 6 | It must have been two month old . |
| 7 | There was a heel-bone , in particular , which Dr Macleod said was such , that if the foot was in proportion , it must have been twenty-seven inches long . |
| 8 | Director of Studies : ‘ The load they should accept is 5 hours minimum per subject — in some 10 hours . |
| 9 | Today , young Christer as you 'd expect was 10 ft tall . |
| 10 | Built of stone rubble faced with ashlar ( stone dressed to a smooth finish ) and Roman tiles , the original polygonal tower may have been 80 feet high , but it had fallen into ruin by medieval times and was partly rebuilt , probably in the reign of Henry V. It still stands to a height of 40 feet , however , and we can see the original windows which were tiny on the outside walls to prevent draughts interfering with the flames of the beacon at the top . |
| 11 | It may have been seven years late and a billion dollars over budget , but the Hubble space telescope was lifting out of the shuttle cargo bay and on its way to orbit at last , ready to look back across the universe to the very beginnings of time . |
| 12 | The lecturer may have been 20 years older , wealthier , and inevitably wiser , but that is often why the student chose to sleep with him . |
| 13 | She may have been three years older than he was , pushing forty and not quite as pert as the sort of girl he favoured at this precise moment , but one day Jack would grow up , look for a real woman to take care of him , and there she 'd be , waiting and ready . |
| 14 | I would have been 3.5 ft tall . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Our daughter would have been 29 years old when this person will be walking the streets again , ’ said 51-year-old Norman Squire at his home in Arundel , West Sussex . |
| 17 | It would be hard to find an artist more suited to the political needs of museum exhibitions in the early 1990s than Wifredo Lam , who would have been ninety years old this year . |