Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] have been [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it 's a bit frightening when you think a pensioner 's money may have been in that account at thirteen fifty on a , on ten thousand invested , and now they 're down to seven hundred . |
| 2 | She had said it was her niece because the girl was young and had black hair and because who else but Nora Fanshawe could have been in that car with her parents ? |
| 3 | Marley must have been like that himself . |
| 4 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |
| 5 | Stallholder Pete would have been among those killed and Wicksy would have been paralysed . |
| 6 | If the bands are reshuffled , the trials will have been of little practical value . |
| 7 | An argument for the co-evolution of dispersers and their trees is that they , in contrast , avoid the seeds , though in the past such seeds may have been in some way indigestible , promoting the relationship of today . |
| 8 | As the income of the much smaller Missenden Abbey was given as £160 , compared with £262 net in 1535 , its goods may have been worth much more than the £140 assessed . |
| 9 | He added that disaffected factions within the BBC opposed to Mr Birt 's programme of reforms may have been behind some of the attempts to destabilise him . |
| 10 | The tightly packed schiltrons might have been in some danger if the enemy 's Welsh archers had been used at once ; but Edward or his advisers thought they could settle things swiftly by an all-out cavalry charge . |
| 11 | In our view , routine casework unsupported by an active programme of service development would have been of little value and would probably have degenerated into a frustrating cycle of ‘ patch and mend ’ crisis management . |
| 12 | Welcome as the Cabinet 's new policy must have been to some Ministers in the Lords , such as Lord Pakenham , then Minister of Civil Aviation and an abolitionist to his fingertips , voting for suspension can not have been an agreeable experience for the unyieldingly retentionist Lord Chancellor , Jowitt . |
| 13 | She had said ‘ the rest of you ’ and I had never heard her so distance herself before , but what astonished me was the realisation that my father must have been at that party , must have returned with my mother to the villa in the small hours , must have been aware of me in my little white pyjamas and Panama hat . |
| 14 | How many people could have been under such a constant strain , for so long ? |
| 15 | I do n't think that chair could have been in that book Brian . |
| 16 | These herbs would have been among those grown for medicinal purposes by the monks in days gone by and they may well have been planted by ponds stocked with carp in the grounds of the monastery . |
| 17 | Though his thought may have been in some respects dry and narrow as a result , he set the agenda for modern philosophy and theology . |
| 18 | Oh , very very big , he explained and stepped away from the end of the table to indicate with his hand where the tail would have been on this particular specimen . |
| 19 | This being must have been in some way necessary to humanity , it is inconceivable that this is not so , for surely there would have been evidence of at least one enduring civilisation that had neither ‘ god ’ nor temple . |
| 20 | The end result might only be a slight scratch , but the potential might have been in that situation for something a lot worse . |
| 21 | These guys could have been from any one of them . |
| 22 | The potential advantage of more frequent dosing would have been at most a rather small one therefore and would not have changed the main conclusions of this study . |
| 23 | The clouds could have been at any height from fifty feet to six miles . |
| 24 | ‘ It seems the continental disease may have been in this country for some time , ’ Dr Tapper says , ‘ but we do n't believe hare populations are in serious danger . ’ |
| 25 | Ours went , I think , to 2 , 5 and 7 ; the other floors might have been in another building , or another town . |
| 26 | Supposing that the essential words conferring the primacy on all successive archbishops of Canterbury were in fact in the letters which Lanfranc mentioned , why did he go on at such length about the facts drawn from Bede , when a single quotation from one of the passages granting the primacy in perpetuity to the archbishops of Canterbury would have been worth all the rest of his argument put together ? |