Example sentences of "have been [adj] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Under the old law of larceny he may not have been guilty of attempted larceny . |
| 3 | Without the qualification , Johnson felt the remark would have been devoid of enjoyable meaning . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Blagg would have been dead of old age before we got clearance . ’ |
| 7 | He saw Preobrazhensky as viewing the problem only in terms of struggle and confrontation , which would have been disruptive of social equilibrium . |