Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This holds regardless of whether the mechanism , behavioural , chemical or otherwise , might have evolved arbitrarily or might have been the only possible one phylogenetically . |
| 2 | None of her college friends knew where she was staying , or would have been the slightest bit likely to make such a gesture , even if they had . |
| 3 | A well-worn path not marked on the map that may have been an old link between Gawthrop and the track called Long Bank that crosses Middleton Fell , leads to the right of the crags into a slight outcrop of rock marked by a lone hawthorn . |
| 4 | So came into existence the ‘ Harborough Arm ’ a branch that should have been a main line . |
| 5 | Dot woke on that morning that could have been the last morning of her life and knew by the brightness reflected across the ceiling that she was safe , for the roads would still be blocked . |
| 6 | My word that would have been a spectacular goal . |
| 7 | Erm I I know it was in the context of a a question you posed to him that er if he had in fact er accepted the County Council 's housing figures er that would have been an appropriate hundred and twenty two hectares would have been appropriate er on the employment side . |
| 8 | Those hours spent with Mr. Golding are a very pleasant memory — he was always kind and must have been a nice type of man to allow a small boy to help , or should I say hinder him . |
| 9 | ( She also taught the social secretary to play the piano , but he was not an apt pupil and must have been a great disappointment to her . ) |
| 10 | Mir Jafar , who was made Nawab , had an adequate claim to the throne and might have been a good ruler under other circumstances , but it was quite clear that he was on the throne simply because the Company had decided to put him there . |
| 11 | It 's abandoned now , and might have been a huge new town if politics and economics had gone differently . " |
| 12 | This act is hardly likely to have endeared the chiefs to the Roman cause , especially if all the money had been spent , and could have been a deciding factor in the hardening of the changing attitudes in some of the royal households . |
| 13 | Even Hugh , although able to look like a jeune premier from time to time , had filled out as a result of an under-demanding marriage and a sedentary occupation , and would have been a round peg for such a small square hole . |
| 14 | She had never belonged to anything and would have been a hopeless soldier . |
| 15 | It follows that the continuing heavy costs of care at Hunstead Park would have gone on and would have been a proper claim against this defendant . |
| 16 | It means incidentally , ‘ bridge wooden shakey ’ and would have been a funny name for a station in the land of King George ! |
| 17 | Apart from his Midlands Grand National triumph in 1990 he also gained a verdict over Norton 's Coin at Cheltenham — two months before that horse 's Gold Cup success — and would have been an easy winner of the Greenall Whitley Chase but for falling when clear at the last fence . |
| 18 | I have seen before and after your boasted strokes of policy ; and you were the same man , and would have been the same man to me and to yourself if you had never done them . |
| 19 | It was cooked by a woman , or something that looked like a woman but could have been a giant panda . |
| 20 | On waking , it occurred to her with renewed conviction that the experience of two days before might have been no more than a temporary aberration of an exhausted mind . |