Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] have been in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And question ten , you should have the word Preventable and words to the effect Should not have been in that position and not have assumed that the other driver was going to do what he eventually did do . |
| 2 | As for our own species , the oldest evidence , going back to possibly about 35,000 BC , reveals that the dead were not only equipped with weapons , tools , and ornaments but also with food , which must often have been in short supply among the living . |
| 3 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 4 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 5 | If the highly developed woollen textile industry be disregarded , the structure of crafts and trades of Babergh may not have been in any way unrepresentative of the shires at that time . |
| 6 | England 's eighteenth-century manufacturing growth may not have been in any full sense " export led " , but foreign trade did nevertheless have a significant and dynamic role . |
| 7 | This was already clear by 1926 , and could even have been in 1922 , if only the central authorities had kept a closer watch on the pulse of rural life . |
| 8 | It may well have been in that picture that the new type was created . |
| 9 | Yet the earliest known usage of ‘ South Saxons ’ does not appear until a royal charter of 689 names them and their king , Northelm , although the term may well have been in common use for some time before that . |
| 10 | For if only he could fly free then perhaps this life of hers would not have been in vain . |
| 11 | ( If mortality rates for the age group 20–24 could have been calculated , the nadir would probably have been in that age class ) . |
| 12 | Do you think if he 'd been sent into hospital earlier he would n't have been in such a |
| 13 | ‘ If she had done her job properly , I would never have been in this mess in the first place . ’ |
| 14 | Damn Lori and her unreasoning jealousy ; but for her she would never have been in this position . |
| 15 | If that happens , the sufferings of my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Leicester , West , of Myra and of his family , whom many of us know and admire , will not have been in vain . |
| 16 | ‘ If at least one young person decides to give up putting a foot into a stolen car ever again , then her son 's death will not have been in vain ; and another mother will not have to experience the heartbreak she is experiencing . |
| 17 | If Stuart Graham can find the passion of his final speeches a little sooner in the play , and if Peter O'Meara can keep his enthusiasm on the boil , Ms Johnston 's endeavour will not have been in vain . |
| 18 | And as the years from retirement lengthen , it seems more and more tenuous to group men in terms of long-past work , let alone women who since marriage may never have been in paid work at all . |
| 19 | The other man may never have been in this situation before . |