Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] have been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When services were concentrated in large hospitals , it was possible for good managers to keep a watchful eye open for the danger signals , and although the physical and emotional environment may not have been of high quality , most residents would be properly fed and clothed and protected from abuse . |
| 3 | Firstly , the hypotensive effect of this drug may not have been of sufficient size to reduce microalbuminuria . |
| 4 | No one knew why , though the Dutch gunner Colonel opined that the reason for the Prince 's hasty departure could not have been of great importance , or else the Duke would surely have left with the Prince . |
| 5 | Unless the buyer can show that there was a latent defect present in the goods at the time of delivery which later became manifest ( and hence that the goods could not have been of merchantable quality at the time of delivery ) he may be left with no remedy . |
| 6 | He may also have been behind certain elements of the design . |
| 7 | It may well have been with mixed feelings that Hamilton gave up Painshill and its burdens after some thirty-five years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For if only he could fly free then perhaps this life of hers would not have been in vain . |
| 10 | They disliked British interference , but at the same time they appreciated that the British they appreciated that the British presence on Persian countered what would otherwise have been over whelming Russian influence . |
| 11 | Any landowners who had been successful in this kind of enterprise would certainly have been of immediate interest to Paulus in his search for enemies of the State , as exploiters of pagan superstition . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It would seem that Miller can not have been on amicable terms with the gardeners there , otherwise he would have made a point of a visit then . |