Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I liked to think it was because they thought he 'd failed , that our survival in the mountains had been his humiliation , but I would have to admit this might have been mere wishful thinking . |
| 2 | They ca n't have been bilingual last time because they were hired from Staffordshire County Council . |
| 3 | Buddy would have been 56 this year and no doubt raving on even now had it not been for that fateful February in 1959 … the day the music died . |
| 4 | But for this problem , the encouraging increase in student numbers in 1957- 58 — which was maintained in subsequent years and so marked the beginning of an upward trend — would probably have been apparent one year earlier . |
| 5 | I could have been married many times , as everyone knows , but I was always so involved with my father 's business and then my own , life was always so full , that I let the opportunities slip by . |
| 6 | Two had died in infancy , otherwise there would have been nine little mouths to feed . |
| 7 | Here , I used four different designs as they add interest , but they could easily have been four matching designs . |
| 8 | Robert Warshow was to argue quite rightly that there must have been much vicarious pleasure in the enjoyment of these films for audiences could watch gangsters break the law , use violence , take risks , and die but were free themselves to leave the theatre safely . |
| 9 | If at any stage in the discussions on Monday , or in all the other discussions that I have attended in the past two years , it had been a question of majority vote , there would have been much less agreement , and to the extent that decisions had been imposed by a majority , they would have been much less effective . |
| 10 | She said : " I felt at an earlier stage there were enough moderate Africans who could have taken their place alongside whites in government and there would have been much more evolution towards African leadership than the revolution that came about in the end . |
| 11 | It would have been much more fun , do n't you think , if they 'd dressed as housewives . |
| 12 | She 'll have been awake all night , thinking and thinking and thinking . |
| 13 | Mrs Burke , who would have been 100 next month , was found dying from head injuries in her bed on Monday . |
| 14 | Must have been all those flowers . |
| 15 | I can remember it well , it was lit by gas e even in these days you know it would have been all electric light but it was gas and er we had erm , I would go for engineering drawing and maths probably I think . |
| 16 | Frankly , I do not believe that there should have been all this talk about a little bit of majority voting on foreign policy . |
| 17 | Norman Rockwell would have been one hundred years old next year . |
| 18 | ‘ It was only much later , when it was too late to change anything , that I glimpsed the possibility that this may have been one small way in which I had a slight advantage over Gittel . |
| 19 | The development of the double helix structure of DNA may have been one such improvement in the early stages . |
| 20 | His friends already know there could n't have been two closer pals than Julie and Elizabeth . |
| 21 | ‘ Then it must have been two other people that have been kissing on our front porch for the last nine months . |
| 22 | ‘ So if you were in your van you could n't have been two hundred yards away on the scaffolding behind Benson 's furniture shop ? ’ |
| 23 | At the Brixton Academy one stated : ‘ Last night , there ca n't have been two hundred people at the gig and I sold twice as many burgers and hot dogs than I did today . |
| 24 | Until recently there would normally have been two interpretive stages . |
| 25 | No , the fact of it was , Diane and her employer might easily have been two different species for the way that they looked at the world . |
| 26 | SUCH a scoreline would have been unimaginable this time last year , but Chelmsford 's new-found strengths more than Oxford 's incredible decline engineered this crushing English League win . |
| 27 | Thus what would once have been typical neurotic conflicts between the ego and the id are much more likely to present themselves today as delinquency and compulsive acting-out . |
| 28 | There must have been five hundred varieties . |
| 29 | Yeah , well you should of done that five hands ago and then you 'd have been seventy five pence down ! |
| 30 | Each section would have symbolic representation from the other section , but the effective outcome would have been face-to-face Israeli-Palestinian talks . |