Example sentences of "have been [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Each section would have symbolic representation from the other section , but the effective outcome would have been face-to-face Israeli-Palestinian talks . |
| 4 | But there must have been other reactive effects which were more subtly marked than this and were concealed from the fieldworker . |
| 5 | There may well have been other such incidents . |
| 6 | I now realised that there must have been other little gaps and vacancies about the house but , between the tablets and the total absence of any careless talk , I had wiped the whole unfortunate episode right out of my head … |
| 7 | It is now regularly available at their surgery as part of free NHS care , a situation which would have been inconceivable ten years ago . |
| 8 | This would have been unthinkable 5 years ago . |
| 9 | Studies like those described by Dean ( 1982 ) , in which he attempted to distinguish between deficits in visual memory and visual object categorization following damage to part of the visual association cortex in rhesus monkeys , would have been unthinkable forty years ago . |
| 10 | ‘ The collection I showed this spring would have been unthinkable three years ago — so many dresses , so much evening wear . |
| 11 | ‘ Unix Lite would have been okay four years ago , but with the performance and memory capacity of today 's machines — and their future potential — we do n't need cut-down Unix . |
| 12 | He is frequently described as ‘ having the stoop of an ageing crop-picker and the face of a curious little boy ’ — which may have been true 30 years ago , but now belongs to the discard-tray with other caricatures : caricatures , as Oscar Wilde observed , are compliments that mediocrity pays to genius . |
| 13 | But neither he nor Antoinette are direct blood descendants of Monsieur de Rochefort , so there would have been heavy financial penalties attached to the inheritance . ’ |
| 14 | These could have been gross bawdy parodies in the arena to the great delight of the multitude . |
| 15 | In fact , if he were n't so loyal to Dalgety and allowed himself to be poached , he could probably have been champion several times over . ’ |
| 16 | Some of the marginal faults-notably that along the Sutherland coast discussed earlier were clearly operative during Mesozoic times ( in this case late Jurassic ) and may well have been active seismic lines . |
| 17 | On this argument the graptolites should have been bottom dwelling-colonial organisms , living by filtering small particles of food from the water . |
| 18 | Throughout our recent evolutionary history , particularly since the rise of a hunting way of life , there must have been extreme selective pressures in favour of our ability to co-operate as a group : organized food gathering and hunts are successful only if each member of the band knows his task and joins in with the activity of his fellows ; a good deal of restraint on natural impulses during the stalk and capture of the prey is likewise essential . |
| 19 | There might have been considerable constitutional difficulties if it had turned out that , for the last 10 years , Britain had been ruled by a Martian , or a robot , or a vampire . |