Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] have [been] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm but the reality is that erm we would therefore need our budget to , in fact for the first half of this year , to have , well for the whole year , to have reflected the late delivery of the systems which would 've , if we 'd had that in the budget and we 'd been projecting the whole budget at say two point six , our budget figure would 've been somewhere in the region of another eighty to ninety thousand higher than it currently is for this first quarter . |
| 2 | The floor of these forests was , at best , only sparsely vegetated and great areas may have been entirely without any living leaves . |
| 3 | She and Tom must have been here for quite a long time , then . |
| 4 | Perhaps the Thunderbird 's one-sided peghead might have been more in keeping with Gibson 's bold step into the next century . |
| 5 | Yet the county council admits the waste could have been there for anything up to 20 years . |
| 6 | Pumpido had to make two saves while neither of the Italians need have been there at all . |
| 7 | It was obvious that Matthew would have been more at home at the little desk by the window , where there was only a kitchen chair to sit on . |
| 8 | If he had testified the alternatives would have been either for the judge to cross-examine him or for his evidence to remain untested and unchallenged . |
| 9 | She felt humiliated — and because she 'd been so attracted to you during that first meeting , it was hard for her to realise the attraction must have been all on her side . |
| 10 | If the SRs had achieved power , ‘ their actions would have been exactly like those of the Bolshevik Party . ’ |
| 11 | The Otago method may have been slightly below the classical tackling methods of attack , especially from first-phase , but Mains developed a special skill that was to have all his forwards , bit men and small , all very mobile and skilled at handling , retaining or winning the ball on the ground . |
| 12 | The boy in the photograph , whose age could have been anywhere between fifteen and twenty , was staring at the camera with startled eyes . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd have thought Brahms and Liszt would have been more to your taste . ’ |
| 14 | The Somerset captain would have been quite within his rights to have declined to play after 6.30 in the chance that it might rain hard enough on the third day to prevent any play . |
| 15 | THE FOREST COLONIAL folding chair would have been entirely at home on the deck of any of the great ocean liners of the 1830s . |
| 16 | So the pattern would have been perhaps towards marrying later , or certainly having children later and then perhaps moving out of London . |
| 17 | Your Uncle Jack would have been all over him . ’ |
| 18 | If the line of the Gallery was maintained then the exit to La Scala would have been equally off line . |
| 19 | An effort of this kind would have been quite beyond the office 's powers at any time until well into the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | IF some of the jurors had suffered from rheumatoid arthritis , as I have done for 33 years , the verdict would have been emphatically in favour of Dr Cox . |
| 21 | Its success must have been largely through her efforts if it is true that Frederick was often away from home . |
| 22 | If there had been a man up the tree on the night of Mary Connon 's death — and a conversation with Kathy Grogan earlier that morning had convinced him , though her interpretation of the written word might be naively literal , there was nothing wrong with her senses , then that man could have been there for only one of three purposes . |
| 23 | The hysteria in their colleague 's voice would have been enough by itself to ensure their prompt response , but the unmistakable background of gunfire added urgency to the situation . |
| 24 | Other unique material in the Southern Collection includes the unpublished manuscript notebooks of the distinguished theatre historian , William John Lawrence , who was born in Dublin in 1862 , and of whom it was once said that to whatever aspect of theatre history the student may turn , Lawrence will have been there before him . |
| 25 | Herluin saw him , and uttered a wordless cry , rather of vexation than surprise or alarm , for by this time the steward should have been home in Ramsey , all his booty safely delivered . |
| 26 | And the prominent prehistorian Professor R. J. C. Atkinson has clearly demonstrated that the laying out of an accurate , straight landscape line would have been well within the means of the megalithic builders . |
| 27 | Mr. Stewart said : ‘ If the tree takes to its new location the effort will have been well worth it and I am very grateful for the co-operation of the builders . |
| 28 | The males , now about 18 inches long , may have spent only three years in the rivers ; the females in the higher reaches may have been there for as many as eight or nine and are three times as long . |
| 29 | The invitation must have been largely in terms of a general specification involving basic designs and performance , for the prices varied greatly , depending on the type of hauling gear and the amount of sophistication of the secondary equipment . |
| 30 | Kissing Ludovico in the cramped registry office , in front of strangers , she wished that her mother , Louise , Miss Hatherby and so many others could have been there with them . |