Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er it , it does seem to me it would 've been an enormous problem for the Chinese Communist Party had absolute egalitarianism worked . |
| 2 | SUMMERCHILD : Actually , what I do really enjoy is an open fire . |
| 3 | When such top growth can be persuaded to produce its own roots as with a cutting , the best you can expect is an indifferent plant and a poor root system . |
| 4 | So the most valuable contribution the correct shaft can give is an increased sense of feel throughout the swing , letting you know just where the clubhead is . |
| 5 | What a magazine like ours can provide is an informed and thorough reading of the current culture . |
| 6 | The aircraft he will use is an unusual one . |
| 7 | Myles opened his mouth , but all he could utter was an unintelligible croak . |
| 8 | Could that answer be an intellectual deceit because you did n't , and do n't wish to be publicly identified as the boy going through travails that turns out to be so controversial ? |
| 9 | It would have been an unnecessary and cruel blow for her to see her old home in its state of decay . |
| 10 | It must have been an amazing sight . ’ |
| 11 | It would have been an amazing goal as the speed and accuracy of the passes was awsome . |
| 12 | If true , this would have been an amazing source of energy . |
| 13 | It wo must have been I mean that was if you to get completely new clothes every time , that would have been an amazing expense would n't it . |
| 14 | There a new opera commission was discussed with Domenico Guardasoni , manager of the National Theatre ; this may have been an embryonic version of La clemenza di Tito , Mozart 's last opera , which he was to write for Prague two years later . |
| 15 | Some biographers have suggested that the reason was that the presence of Mrs Taylor , presiding over one of the great English bishops ' palaces , would have been an embarrassing reminder of the frailty of her natural father , the Royal Martyr . |
| 16 | It is worth pointing out — as did Dr Akena Adoko in his book on the Jeffrey Archer trial — that there may have been an additional development in the folkways of the juryroom : the frequent practice of the rich ( the typical plaintiffs ) to pass on their damages to charity , as did Mr Archer , might act as an additional , and self-legitimating , incentive to take awards through the ceiling . |
| 17 | There may have been an additional dimension to all this . |
| 18 | Depending upon when Edmund 's Welsh alliance was made , it may have been an additional factor in persuading Eadric to change his allegiance , or a move to put pressure on him once he had deserted . |
| 19 | He remained there for what must have been an anxious day and a night while the elephant returned to and from a nearby stream with trunkfuls of water with which it was finally able to loosen the roots of the tree , push it over , then trample its victim just as his belated rescue-party arrived on the scene . |
| 20 | He may have been an outstanding goalkeeper but he was hardly a product of the Harvard Business School . |
| 21 | If there had been a bolt on my belay at Swanage it would not have been an environmental disaster . |
| 22 | Welcome as the Cabinet 's new policy must have been to some Ministers in the Lords , such as Lord Pakenham , then Minister of Civil Aviation and an abolitionist to his fingertips , voting for suspension can not have been an agreeable experience for the unyieldingly retentionist Lord Chancellor , Jowitt . |
| 23 | And when Travis seemed absolutely stumped for words , she could do no other than fill what would have been an awkward silence with , ‘ I could probably make the lasagne go three ways if … ’ |
| 24 | There might have been an economic argument for Britain to stay out , but the decision was quite clearly taken on political grounds . |
| 25 | Offa 's victory over Cynewulf in 779 , therefore , would seem to have been a signal for intensified Mercian activity on Offa 's southern border which may have been an essential prerequisite to any sustained involvement in the south-east . |
| 26 | There could have been an innocent explanation for the dust cloud : it could have been caused by a herd of cows being driven to market , by a Prussian regiment on exercise , or even by a work gang hammering cobbles into the highway 's bed of chalk and flint , yet the musket-fire Sharpe had heard earlier , and the Presence of the enemy Dragoons on the southern bank of the Sambre suggested a more sinister cause . |
| 27 | Thin , slope-shouldered , raincoated and thoroughly inconspicuous , he could easily have been an innocent Sunday evening wayfarer , but for the fact that Harry was now convinced he was not . |
| 28 | And the best defence against a new Davidic Messiah , advancing with his legions , would have been an established Messiah already presiding over the Empire — a pro-Pauline Messiah , who had effectively pre-empted the claims of Judaic rivals . |
| 29 | Thus , it is also common ground that the complainant must have been an existing borrower at the time of the grant or refusal in question . |
| 30 | On the other hand it could have been an electrical fault … he 's waiting for the results of the investigation . |