Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [modal v] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For my experience would have been this way no matter how other experiences might or might not have been . |
| 2 | These four cases are among a great number where ministers have in the past fixed a tariff period on material that was not available to the prisoner , and which in my opinion ought to have been available to him . |
| 3 | Jatinder , who was born in London , said : ‘ I decided to fast because life without my husband would have been unbearable . ’ |
| 4 | My husband must have been unhappy , that 's the best I can say for him . ’ |
| 5 | I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door . |
| 6 | " My father would have been proud of you , " he spat , " did he even realize the half of what you did , eh ? " |
| 7 | ‘ My answer would have been different if Barry had upped and left to another club , but not the way it happened . ’ |
| 8 | I have a great love of the choral music repertory and my training would have been incomplete without it at this stage stage . |
| 9 | It is also encouraging that my list could have been longer . |
| 10 | My tone must have been offhand . |
| 11 | Clearly their views may have been different from those of the people who died , but respondents are likely to have taken into account the reactions of their relatives and friends , and how these respondents felt about the care in the homes is also of interest and concern . |
| 12 | Her enthusiasm must have been convincing , however , as Bill threw back his head and laughed . |
| 13 | If they 'd been brought up all , all girls maybe their fiction would have been different . |
| 14 | Sometimes the ultimate question is only in theory left to the public authority ; for example , in some cases of review for jurisdictional errors of law or fact in which it is clear that if the authority had got the law or the facts right , its decision would have been different and could only have been one way . |
| 15 | Treaty did not of itself prevent a member state from imposing an ownership residence requirement as a condition for exemption from the compulsory acquisition of land , could not be followed in the present case for three reasons : ( a ) in the Fearon case , the owners ' residence requirement was not coupled with any nationality requirement and the court indicated in paragraph 10 of the judgment , at pp. 3685–3686 , that its decision would have been different if it had been ; ( b ) in the Fearon case , the residence requirement was limited to legal owners of the land and did not extend to peripheral persons , such as those who had lent the owners money in order to buy the land ; and ( c ) from the point of view of its geographical scope , the residence requirement at issue in the Fearon case was framed in local rather than national terms . |
| 16 | This is a step towards justice though TODAY believes that her sentence should have been longer still . |
| 17 | In a piece of fancy footwork of which Gekko would have been proud , America 's fat cats have capped a record year by undermining President-Elect Bill Clinton 's plans to soak the rich , before he has even set foot in the White House . |
| 18 | Their watch must have been asleep ! ’ |
| 19 | Lord Acton gave it expression for the first time in 1887 , in a letter which Tolkien might have been interested enough to read — it is in a strongly anti-Papal context . |
| 20 | If they can make us more aware of the Earth and our relationship with it then their study will have been worthwhile . |
| 21 | She looked back over the recently written unsatisfactory pages of her book , and there was no doubt that her mind must have been tired . |
| 22 | Had they known it , their lives would have been completely-different . |
| 23 | Ileana Cotrubas is not of that ilk , and many of her devotees must have been shocked when it was disclosed last weekend that her Covent Garden recital with Geoffrey Parsons on Thursday evening was to be her farewell British appearance . |
| 24 | Apart from their strength and status , their manure would have been useful ; but was their meat eaten ? |
| 25 | It found that had Costa Rica been consulted , its opinion would have been decisive , precisely the situation envisaged in 1858 . |
| 26 | Lady More has told us that her husband would have been pleased that this society has been formed , thus ensuring that the BCR will not be forgotten . |
| 27 | She 'd have been given help by the Lord Chancellor 's Department , and her costs would have been minimal . |
| 28 | He visited Exeter in June 1313 to choose timber for the bishop 's throne there , made with characteristic details for which Witney must have been responsible . |
| 29 | Even the convention of a hand at her elbow would have been intolerable . |
| 30 | Its own stamens , however , do not produce their pollen until later by which time its eggs will have been cross-fertilised by exploring insects . |