Example sentences of "have been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With an assumed growing population in early Anglo-Saxon England there would have been increasing pressure on rural resources , especially by the second half of the seventh century . |
| 2 | It is , for instance , improbable that , on a joint assessment of £133. 6s. 8d. , any of the three Thomases of Lavale would have been mere labourers . |
| 3 | Phormio 's alliance was hardly , given the distance of Akarnania from Athens , the considered policy of the Athenian Assembly — the general just made it on the spot — and may have been mere opportunism , for Athens made many alliances which never came to anything and were not expected to . |
| 4 | It ca n't have been mere curiosity . |
| 5 | Monaghan came close to snatching victory but this would have been rough justice on Cavan who showed flair and fluency in the first half before fading . |
| 6 | In the early stages we started off with perhaps Minor schools which could almost have been Major ones , because you were just trying to find any school that had got some kind of life , or interest , or things happening … really in many ways it was rather a matter of chance because of the way it happened at the time . |
| 7 | Clearly , Harald was a highly-efficient organiser of labour and materials : the felling and transportation of the large quantities of timber used in the camps and at Ravning , for example , must have been major operations in themselves . |
| 8 | There should have been major expenditure on affordable provision , this would be a major factor in getting people back to work . ’ |
| 9 | ’ If we were still in our own country , Andreas , a man like you would have been married years ago and you would have many children to delight you in your old age . ’ |
| 10 | ( It may have been simple retaliation — he had been mildly reprimanded by the guardians for allowing an unqualified assistant to attend a midwifery case as his deputy earlier that year , and had been instructed to provide the name of a legally qualified locum . ) |
| 11 | The correct sentence would have been nine months ' detention in a young offender institution , and that sentence would be substituted . |
| 12 | It would have been nine wickets , but Lewis Eckett , editor of Club Horror , was Absent Without Leave . |
| 13 | There could have been greater consultation with both nursery nurse and life preparation students and due consideration given to the fact that completed craft projects are an important part of a nursery nurse 's final assessment . |
| 14 | There should have been real mountains , or no mountains at all . |
| 15 | In his zeal to demonstrate that the Conservatives were committed individualists Fforde refuses to accept that there may have been real disagreements within the party . |
| 16 | These may have been real people , but they were n't real Nazis . |
| 17 | It could have been four years . |
| 18 | And she went on a party of three , no , no , she went with a party of four friends I think , there were five of them altogether and er she stayed for well er , three nights , four days , or four days , three nights I ca n't remember no , it must have been four days , four nights , three days . |
| 19 | He said slowly and dangerously , ‘ I daresay I might have been four bob down at the end of an evening . |
| 20 | Gary Kemp 's portrayal of the homosexual psychopath Ronnie is utterly chilling ; we are not shown what he does in bed , but it can not have been much fun for his boyfriend . |
| 21 | ‘ He ca n't have been much fun to live with ; his wife would n't necessarily have been heartbroken , ’ Guy commented drily , finally releasing her and going in search of a large box of tissues . |
| 22 | I would n't have been much competition by the side of sexy George , but still , a man has his pride . |
| 23 | Before the meeting , you know at the moment John Major is in Moscow , erm before that meeting there 'll have been much work done by the officials on briefing papers , on trying to identify the potential issues that are going to come up in the meeting , there 'll have been a lot of background work that would be similar er to patterns of relationships between various departments erm in any process of decision making . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , I do not believe for one moment — I made this point on enough occasions to the hon. Member for Antrim , East ( Mr. Beggs ) — that , if we had not given potential investors the opportunity to buy a power station that could be converted to gas , there would have been much hope of bringing a gas pipeline to Northern Ireland . |
| 25 | Times were not easy and there would have been much evidence of hardship , although actually we know very little of the ordinary day-to-day life of the miner and his family . |
| 26 | There would not have been much music , one is suddenly reminded or much singing and dancing where Anna came from . |
| 27 | He would have been much surpris 'd to know my true Opinion on these matters , but I did not chuse to let him be so much familiar , I kept mum , and smiled and nodded as best I might , keeping my Thoughts to myself . |
| 28 | ‘ There would n't have been much point in fusing only half the lighting system , would there ? ’ |
| 29 | Neath , the leading Welsh club side of the moment , were more or less ignored because although their forwards could get around better than anyone else 's there would not have been much point if they could not win the ball in the first place . |
| 30 | In that era , so much of the day was spent climbing in and out of the correct clothes that there ca n't have been much time left for recreation . |