Example sentences of "have be [adj] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Dichter would have been proud of that piece of depth thinking . |
| 2 | The late Ray Petri would have been proud of this issue . |
| 3 | Big Daddy would have been proud of this tackle on Dave Mitchell , but the ref waved play on . |
| 4 | A West Point cadet would have been proud of those shoes already . |
| 5 | During the following months the School managed to carry on , but the atmosphere must have been one of great despondency . |
| 6 | For Gordon might well have been one of this newspaper 's very first journalists . |
| 7 | The overall effect of , for example , a group of elaborately dressed and bejewelled priestesses conducting a rite with carved and gilded cult objects against a background of inlaid furniture , brightly painted pillars and multi-coloured frescoes must have been one of dazzling opulence . |
| 8 | Could it have been one of these specimens that succumbed to the examining blade of the paleopathologist 's knife ? |
| 9 | If it does not , the human race will have been one of natural selection 's dead ends . |
| 10 | I could have been one of those prophets who foretold him . |
| 11 | ‘ Would James have been one of those people , by any chance ? ’ |
| 12 | It must have been one of those men Angy sketched … the one she was talking about packing up . |
| 13 | Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French . |
| 14 | How could he have been capable of such cruelty ? |
| 15 | He had normal hearing all his life and would have been unaware of deaf people if he had not been " adopted " as a young orphan by the Rev J Jennings , a deaf mute minister and founder of the South London Gospel Mission to the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 16 | Under the old law of larceny he may not have been guilty of attempted larceny . |
| 17 | Given the Committee 's proposals on buggery , this would have meant that a man who procured a woman 's submission to anal intercourse by threats other than of violence would not necessarily have been guilty of any offence . |
| 18 | Without the qualification , Johnson felt the remark would have been devoid of enjoyable meaning . |
| 19 | While individual officers may indeed have been aware of this work , consideration of it did not form part of the policy-making . |
| 20 | English churchmen , who must have been aware of these activities , were sometimes also familiar with the conditions which gave rise to them . |
| 21 | John Smith would have been aware of those risks yesterday . |
| 22 | Ely , for example , had already received the bulk of the lands it held in 1086 , and the same may well have been true of other foundations such as Glastonbury , Abingdon and the Old and New Minsters in Winchester . |
| 23 | says Clare about his native Helpston in the years after its enclosure , and that must have been true of most parishes that underwent the great transformation . |
| 24 | This may have been true of strict Evangelicals , particularly the Calvinists , the dissenting groups such as the Plymouth Brethren , but in the population of the cities where churchgoing had fallen steeply , fire and brimstone were losing their power to terrify . |
| 25 | There must have been dozens of dead animals lying around , most of them killed by shrapnel or having wandered into a minefield . |
| 26 | Blagg would have been dead of old age before we got clearance . ’ |
| 27 | The programmers who designed them may have been any of these things , but that is irrelevant . |
| 28 | He saw Preobrazhensky as viewing the problem only in terms of struggle and confrontation , which would have been disruptive of social equilibrium . |
| 29 | Even the chickens must have been ashamed of those parts of their bodies when they were alive . |
| 30 | A few years ago any self respecting farmer would have been ashamed of this field , with its bumper crop of nettles and thistles … |