Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [modal v] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp 's personal computer business was around the break-even level or may have been profitable in the first three months of this year , the president of IBM Personal Computer Co Robert Corrigan told the New York Times : he says he thinks ‘ people will be surprised at how quickly we 're bringing this business back , ’ and that it should be solidly profitable before year-end ; problem is that its closest rivals , Compaq Computer Corp and Dell Computer Corp , which both faced the same problems as IBM , adjusted to the change in the market much more quickly , and rushed appropriate machines out while IBM procrastinated , so that they are already strongly profitable while IBM is still having to build up momentum . |
| 2 | His frowning gaze swept over her and there was a glint in the blue eyes that might have been intimidating if she were n't so angry . |
| 3 | He 's in his late forties , tall , has a good deal of rather wild , greying hair , and a cardigan that must have been home-made . |
| 4 | AD 700 was provided with an incipient keel and may have been able to bear the greater stresses of a sail . |
| 5 | That summer of 1920 he had conversations which affected his mind and may have been decisive indirectly for his future choice of career . |
| 6 | The miners probably resented the intrusion but must have been fearful of the possible consequences of this calamity . |
| 7 | Occasionally , things get a little confusing — Ride and the pixies are hardly baggy faves — but the presence of the seminal ‘ Taste ’ and ‘ Velouria ’ gives the LP more variety than would have been present on a groove-only affair . |
| 8 | Occasionally , things get a little confusing — Ride and the pixies are hardly baggy faves — but the presence of the seminal ‘ Taste ’ and ‘ Velouria ’ gives the LP more variety than would have been present on a groove-only affair . |
| 9 | THE plug has finally been pulled on the London Ambulance Service computer that may have been responsible for up to 20 deaths last week . |
| 10 | By this stage , the pursuer 's agents ought to be prepared for Proof and ought , therefore , to be more receptive to arguments concerning actual weaknesses in their case than may have been true at an earlier stage . |
| 11 | For a given outlay of local currency it has ensured a higher value of imports than would have been available under a market valuation of the currency . |
| 12 | Some 40 per cent of the rural population have no access to a car so that the problem of claiming a benefit that may have been straightforward in town , is very pressing in the country . |
| 13 | There is sometimes a hidden symbolism that would have been apparent to people at that time . |
| 14 | The plan contained no provisions for the long-term clean-up that would have been necessary if the tanker had been carrying heavier crude . |
| 15 | We pass some strangely shaped mountains that must have been volcanic plugs poking up through vast panoramas . |
| 16 | Many of these candidates had completed their studies much earlier in the session and would have been eligible for certification at earlier dates if centres had requested this . |
| 17 | Cockerill made it two nil after seventy three minutes and could have been more as Shearer missed a penalty ; the final score ; Southampton two , Leeds United nil . |
| 18 | She had pretty hair and must have been nice-looking when she was young . |
| 19 | There is also the great hill-figure , the Cerne Giant , which has been identified as Hercules and may have been one of many such figures . |
| 20 | He discriminated against them in his tariff policies and would have been happy to exchange them for land in Pomerania , Saxony or Mecklenburg . |
| 21 | We got our second goal too late to run up the score that might have been available to us , ’ said the national coach . |
| 22 | It is a conclusion that must have been popular with the Department of the Environment which funded two of the studies . |
| 23 | The maximum ACT offset is limited to the amount of tax that would have been payable on the profits assuming they had been charged at the basic rate of tax ( s 239(2) ) . |
| 24 | Only from a record that would have been available at the police station or from officers knowledge . |
| 25 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 26 | If the plaintiff had not paid he would not only have been subject to legal proceedings for recovery of the tax but would have been liable to forfeiture of his business until it had been paid . |
| 27 | ‘ For my part I do not think that the House of Lords in that case had in mind the special position in the administration of justice of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Crown Prosecution Service or would have been prepared to extend the effect of the orders of a civil court in such a way as indirectly to bind them in the performance of their duties in relation to the criminal law and before the criminal courts in circumstances in which they had not sought and may not have wished for an order for discovery . |
| 28 | It was set in a triumphant smile , a smile that would have been smug if it had not been so full of the purest metaphysical good humour . |
| 29 | Yet this inflexibility spoiled a day that should have been special for Dr Schofield . |
| 30 | So , we have a speculative picture of mineral crystals on the primeval Earth showing some of the properties of replication , multiplication , heredity and mutation that would have been necessary in order for a form of cumulative selection to get started . |