Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what you 're saying , that may have been a true figure perhaps two or three days ago , but it actually is changing day by day . |
| 2 | I mean , that may have been the right impression , and I do n't want to force you to say more than you want to , or really anything , but I 'd like to know if you still want to write to me , possibly just about books , or if you wanted to — |
| 3 | And certainly n the case of Holland 's subsequent defeat by Switzerland , that may have been the crucial factor . |
| 4 | That may have been an extreme and , I hope , isolated case , but it underlines the need to ensure that teachers are not deterred from voicing concerns through fear of reprisals . |
| 5 | That must have been a one off . |
| 6 | Now I always think of that as stamina cos I think that must have been a terrific stamina thing . |
| 7 | ‘ That must have been a nice surprise . |
| 8 | Well that must have been a big bit surely . |
| 9 | That must have been a horrendous death for some of them |
| 10 | That must have been an awful lot of hens then . |
| 11 | That must have been the only man ever to get no points three times in a row . |
| 12 | He was flim-flamming , of course , but that must have been the general burden of the letters . |
| 13 | My mother told my father and I think that must have been the worst time of my life . |
| 14 | Er that should have been a fixed a fixed distance there . |
| 15 | The years immediately following 725/6 must have been a crucial period in the establishment of Aethelbald of Mercia 's domination of southern England . |
| 16 | This may have been no more than wishful thinking , and during the campaign the Conservative Party managed to project itself as the most radical of the contenders for office . |
| 17 | This may have been no shattering revelation for any man to make if it had n't been for the fact that in the hot steamy summer of ‘ 89 Lowe got himself laid by two girls in Atlanta , Georgia . |
| 18 | This may have been a late flowering of the ‘ badinage ’ that he used to partake in as a Young Conservative with Brixton locals , but so sensitive is Major about his background , that the public is permitted to hear only the Authorised Version . |
| 19 | This may have been a reasonable starting assumption for the initial round of forecasts made in 1985 , but it is not adequate now . |
| 20 | This may have been a Soviet response to the American nuclear war base facilities under construction at Diego Garcia ( and to a lesser extent to those at the Kagnew Communications Station near Asmara in Ethiopia which had declined in strategic significance and were slowly being wound down ) . |
| 21 | This may have been a popular superstition , but it was by no means confined to uneducated people . |
| 22 | This may have been a conservative blue colour with an elegant stripe down the middle of it , but it was all skew-whiff . |
| 23 | This may have been a difficult question for some to answer as it was an assessment of their own abilities . |
| 24 | Rather than a serious proposal , this may have been a diversionary tactic , intended to block the appointment of Bonito Oliva and force the Socialists to nominate a second-choice candidate with fewer political connotations . |
| 25 | This may have been a just compromise , but it was clearly illogical . |
| 26 | In retrospect , this may have been a deliberate gimmick as she so embarrassingly outclassed the first half 's performances by The Bruvvers , Chris Montez , Len Barry and Johnny Tillotson . |
| 27 | This may have been a conscious effort on Æthelred 's part to divide Olaf from Swegen , with the intention that he should then conquer Norway ( as he did ) and be a thorn in Swegen 's flesh ( as he was , until Swegen defeated and killed him ) . |
| 28 | There a new opera commission was discussed with Domenico Guardasoni , manager of the National Theatre ; this may have been an embryonic version of La clemenza di Tito , Mozart 's last opera , which he was to write for Prague two years later . |
| 29 | This may have been an open-ended shop with timber uprights based on the blocks , so providing both support for the gable end and a frame into which wooden shutters could be fitted when the shop was closed ( see Catterick , p. 114 ) . |
| 30 | This may have been the simple truth ; it may , alternatively , have been an instance of the use of delay by an intelligent but reluctant pleader . |