Example sentences of "they [vb mod] have be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may have been of impermanent materials , such as wood , or the countries may have suffered greater devastation than their neighbours . |
| 2 | They must have been at that game for ages — and no anaesthetics , either . |
| 3 | The Ministry did tell us not to waste effort growing flowers , but somehow one always felt they were not quite as right as they might have been on that one . |
| 4 | The adoption , for instance , of Darwinian views of evolution depended not simply on the intellectual breakthrough of a brilliant mind but on the conjuncture of social movements that made these propositions more acceptable then than they might have been at other periods . |
| 5 | They might have been like this for three centuries , and could be for three centuries more . |
| 6 | The company came in for quite a bit of stick with their new version of the Escort and if the Mondeo had not been well received they could have been in real trouble . |
| 7 | They were n't twins , but they could have been in some respects , she realised . |
| 8 | If these had been real Tag Heuer watches they 'd have been worth thousands , but in fact at around 25 pounds each they 're a rip-off . |
| 9 | ‘ If any courses were run they would have been for trained staff like enrolled or staff nurses . |
| 10 | In fact they are no more adequate for primitive societies than they would have been for any others . |
| 11 | They were no less repugnant to tens of thousands of men who had fought in the previous war , as they would have been to tens of thousands more who died in it . |
| 12 | The specimens you were so good as to send to me by Captain Lyon would have been a treasure had they arrived safe ; but his ship was taken by the French , so those were all lost , which is a great misfortune at this time , when they would have been of great service to me , in ascertaining the names of some plants which remain doubtful . |
| 13 | And they would have been at that muckle supper . |
| 14 | THE terrifying Jurassic Park dinosaurs were much noisier in the film than they would have been in real life , a scientist said today . |
| 15 | ‘ But I 'm convinced they wo n't be as confident about coming to Irvinestown as they would have been in previous seasons . |
| 16 | This meant that an individual book took longer to print than it might have done if all the workmen had concentrated on it alone ; but also that , by utilizing plant and labour less wastefully , all the books could be printed in less time altogether , and at less cost , than they would have been by serial production . |