Example sentences of "have 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 | 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 | In a variation on this feat , the bull-leaper performed the ‘ Diving Leap ’ from a vantage point ; the large , stepped stone block in the north-west corner of the Bull Court at Phaistos was probably used for this purpose , and there may have been similar free-standing vaulting blocks at Knossos and Mallia . |
| 5 | But there must have been other reactive effects which were more subtly marked than this and were concealed from the fieldworker . |
| 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 | ‘ The schoolmaster looked out of the window across the square to the castle where he announced to the class that the flag was flying at half-mast , so he popped out to find out why , thinking it might have been dear old Queen Mary . |
| 8 | The 1966 inquiry plodded its way through an incredible number of excuses as to why Blake had not also been transferred and concluded that if Blake had been moved , and the child murderer left at Wormwood Scrubs had then escaped ( rather than Blake ) , there would have been great public criticism . |
| 9 | NOT even the most imaginative of San Diego Chargers fans would have been entertaining Super Bowl thoughts after the team lost their first four games . |
| 10 | Second , there may have been severe emotional damage in the past : broken or spoiled relationships with loved ones or with church leaders that have led to unbelief and lack of expectation that God would pour his Spirit into our lives . |
| 11 | It was a zig-zag orange and blue striped towel , and it should have been dazzling white cotton , with a gold bracelet on his lean bronzed strong-muscled forearm . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | These could have been gross bawdy parodies in the arena to the great delight of the multitude . |
| 14 | But the Sea Sparrows may have been tracking imaginary aircraft when they were fired . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | On this argument the graptolites should have been bottom dwelling-colonial organisms , living by filtering small particles of food from the water . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This would all have been uninhabited malarial marshland until the post-war boom made it worth draining . |
| 20 | And it must have been cold bloody flat ! |