Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [modal v] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean we did see some strange tracks and we did find this sheep which had been completely gutted , but apparently that could have been done by a snow leopard . |
| 2 | ‘ Lord Justice Bingham concluded that perhaps that could have been done more fully , but a careful reading of the report discloses that on several occasions that is precisely what Price Waterhouse did . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We lived at Witton Park between 1908 and 1914 so this must have been taken sometime during this period , ’ adds Mrs McAninly . |
| 4 | Originally this would have been made with the Moroccan pastry ouarka , but filo pastry is fine . |
| 5 | Well that could have been done tomorrow ! |
| 6 | Its lateral line should enable it to survive and eat , but even this may have been affected if it is bumping into things . |
| 7 | It was far from clear to the pope how this could have been transmitted to the whole human race unless there had been an historical Adam and Eve , that is , a single set of parents . |
| 8 | It is difficult to see how this could have been avoided . |
| 9 | Such attitudes to both the giving and receiving of aid ( and they are so common ) spell the same dismal answer — an opportunity missed , for how much could have been achieved by a well-funded national commission . |
| 10 | The failure of the continuation school movement shows that the class position of the prospective pupils , rather than any age relationship , determined that the significance of their labour power was more important than their further education , however that may have been defined . |
| 11 | Layers of organic muds of swamp origin will be interspersed with wedge-shaped horizons of marine sediments thinning landwards and representing marine advance , however this may have been caused , levees of coarser sediment will follow the courses of former distributaries , while fanshaped spreads of such material will mark the sites of levee breaches . |
| 12 | Why this should have been thought evidence of scurrility was known only to Joyce ‘ s peculiar logic . |
| 13 | Continuing our top-down approach to discourse , it is logical that having identified the sender and receiver , the discourse type and the parts within it , we should turn our attention to organization within parts of the discourse — however these may have been identified and defined . |
| 14 | Incumbent members of Congress have always been difficult to defeat and too much may have been made of the advantages of incumbency in the modern legislature . |
| 15 | However , it is fair to say that much would have been lost to the county if they did not exist . |
| 16 | Underneath this she wore black cotton trousers — ideally these should have been made of silk , but she felt sure no one would notice . |