Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] have been [prep] this " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps Mr Smith 's book and the reaction to it imply that accounts should not have been like this : that it should be possible to take them as a straightforward objective statement of performance . |
2 | It may well have been at this moment , in the autumn of 1419 , that Henry V decided that the crown of France , which none of his predecessors had achieved , might be his . |
3 | He would n't have been on this airwell at the time , though . |
4 | ‘ If she had done her job properly , I would never have been in this mess in the first place . ’ |
5 | Damn Lori and her unreasoning jealousy ; but for her she would never have been in this position . |
6 | The other man may never have been in this situation before . |