Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] have [been] a time " in BNC.
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1 | There must have been a time before Fenna , just as there must have been a time before words , but Maggie can not not conceive of either . |
2 | There must have been a time before Fenna , just as there must have been a time before words , but Maggie can not not conceive of either . |
3 | There must have been a time when each of these practices ceased to be tolerable and reasonable behaviour . |
4 | For example , his eyes were necessary for the finding of food and the locating of enemies , to name but two of many purely necessary functions , but there must have been a time when he first began to enjoy the visual beauty all around him . |
5 | There must have been a time when we did n't quarrel , when we were just content to be together . |
6 | However , general relativity claims to be only a partial theory , so what the singularity theorems really show is that there must have been a time in the very early universe when the universe was so small , that one could no longer ignore the small-scale effects of the other great partial theory of the twentieth century , quantum mechanics . |
7 | I suppose there must have been a time when it was n't like this ? ’ |
8 | There would have been a time when most small city streets would have come clearly within the jurisdiction of one parish ; nothing so simple for Brunswick Place — it lay within the civil parish of St Leonards , the municipal ward of Hoxton New Town , the parliamentary borough of Hackney , the urban sanitary district of Hoxton , and the ecclesiastical parish of St John 's . |
9 | There would have been a time for such a word . |
10 | At what should have been a time to reflect on a most successful campaign to unite both Church and public in defence of fundamental Christian belief , Mrs Whitehouse was ‘ rocked ’ by the breaking of another controversy . |