Example sentences of "[modal v] have [been] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In that case you should have been here a few hours ago . ’ |
| 2 | Although it must have been over a hundred years old the cottage was still on the edge of the village simply because there was no building land beyond it . |
| 3 | Now , if that were right , that is , here 's our bodily bit here , that 's what individuates them , right , Socrates is shorter than Plato , Plato is a bit taller than Socrates , Socrates has funny bulgy eyes , erm Plato must have been rather a normal looking person , a variety of things that differentiate them , but they 're not different in respect of being human beings . |
| 4 | Charles , then , was the second brother to be left a widower , after Thomas ; the domestic burden thus falling upon him and his remaining daughters must have been rather a daunting one , including the need to feed , control and educate young Ben , then only nine years old . |
| 5 | ‘ There must have been just a small problem of logistics . |
| 6 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 7 | Whatever they were called , the duties of all these officials must have been much the same , acting as leaders of their communities , settling minor infractions and disputes , approving corporate actions of the inhabitants , especially in religious dedications , and acting generally as an essential link between government and people . |
| 8 | If she was not , then she must have been almost the only member of Edinburgh political society who managed to know nothing about it — and that in itself would be a comment on her political awareness . |
| 9 | ‘ There must have been quite a few since Lucia and Michele . ’ |
| 10 | sticks , erm , there must have been quite a few schools for girls |
| 11 | He must have been quite an enterprising businessman , my great-grandad , because he ran the butter cart in Baldersdale . |
| 12 | It 's , it 's a hefty tome , but , some encyclopaedias run to about you know , fifteen volumes , so it must have been quite an editorial job actually . |
| 13 | It must have been only a 7.65 that got him . |
| 14 | That 's wh- , must have been virtually the last day when we discovered the Disney shop across the road . |
| 15 | They went in behind Sir George , who waved his huge cone of light around the dark , cramped , circular space , illuminating a semi-circular bay window , a roof carved with veined arches and mock-mediaeval ivy-leaves , felt-textured with dust , a box-bed with curtains still hanging , showing a dull red under their pall of particles , a fantastically carved black wooden desk , covered with beading and scrolls , and bunches of grapes and pomegranates and lilies , something that might have been either a low chair or a prie-dieu , heaps of cloth , an old trunk , two band boxes , a sudden row of staring tiny white faces , one , two , three , propped against a pillow . |
| 16 | What might have been just an isolated , if pretty , trick effect is thoroughly integrated into the thematic content of the film in characteristic Minnellian style — though the evidence of interviews sometimes suggests that this aspect of his work , unlike the stylish and carefully contrived visuals themselves , is in part unconscious and instinctive . |
| 17 | With his 29 runs at a vital stage of the Hampshire innings and three wickets for only 33 , Malcolm Marshall might have been both a logical and romantic choice for the Gold Award , but Micky Stewart gave it to Robin Smith , whose 90 was by far the highest and best innings of the match . |
| 18 | BY THE time they got to Woodstock they might have been half a million strong , but give them a few days in the mud and they 'd soon wandered off into an acid daze looking for luxuries like a toilet , somewhere to sleep and a decent tofu burger . |
| 19 | Police think it could 've been just a dirty night out . |
| 20 | Er you saw the er saw him five years ago in the navy , now it could 've been just a regular check which every seaman gets or it could be , it could 've been something of a serious nature . |
| 21 | This could have been just the usual self-indulgent actor 's reminiscences . |
| 22 | ‘ I think a part of me probably died when I took your job , though it may have been just the settling-down thing . |
| 23 | Over a hundred are known to have existed , and there may have been over a thousand at various times . |
| 24 | As a secular leader , the king may have had charge of the army , although this may have been only a ceremonial role , since the tablets seem to tell us that there were generals . |
| 25 | But it would have been exactly the same problem simple harmonic motion |
| 26 | It would have been rather a dangerous step to take you know , to con even consider er that . |
| 27 | In this Law shared the view of his party , but it would have been substantially the same without him . |
| 28 | I was a little anxious as to payment , which would have been only a few coppers except we had none . |
| 29 | the bypass that end of town would have been perhaps a little bit clearer . |
| 30 | come on because it would have been perhaps the first time I suppose it would n't be a |