Example sentences of "[conj] [vb mod] have [be] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | The only fascination is listening to a song that should have been at most ten seconds long and hearing some fool trying to get ten minutes out of it . |
2 | There was a small desk , a lined pad , a tea mug holding a pencil and two pens , a stack of train and airline schedules , and a few pieces of personal clutter that could have been in any room in the house . |
3 | By a brilliant defence based on a clever choice of terrain that would have been beyond most of the other French generals at that time , de Castelnau saved the vital city of Nancy . |
4 | Arsenic was a common substance and could have been in some of the remedies Mrs Armstrong took . |
5 | That great audience assembled to hear a speaker quite unknown in the political world and the enthusiasm created was an eye-opener to me , and would have been to most of the Westminster hacks with whom I had previously associated public influence . ’ |
6 | But may have been through that earlier . |
7 | This book is useful but could have been of more value if it had been more clearly grounded in practice . |