Example sentences of "[modal v] have been [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | At the time of the lobby revolt , ‘ No one could have been in any doubt that if they went over to [ the rebel papers ' ] side , they would cook their goose with Number Ten . ’ |
| 32 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Erm , although I think Helena Landless could have been in this tradition do n't you ? |
| 35 | If I had my way you 'd have been off this boat days ago . |
| 36 | It may have been during this period that he was supported by a canonry in St Peter 's , to which he later referred as pope . |
| 37 | A predisposition to stress such as that apparently suffered by the accused in the present case might fall foul of this restriction and it may have been for this reason that the Court of Appeal preferred to regard the case as one which might have been disposed of under section 78 had not the trial judge wrongly taken the view that that section also requires some misconduct on the part of the police . |
| 38 | It may have been at this time that the name Saladin began to mean something to him . |
| 39 | So it 's a bit frightening when you think a pensioner 's money may have been in that account at thirteen fifty on a , on ten thousand invested , and now they 're down to seven hundred . |
| 40 | An argument for the co-evolution of dispersers and their trees is that they , in contrast , avoid the seeds , though in the past such seeds may have been in some way indigestible , promoting the relationship of today . |
| 41 | Though his thought may have been in some respects dry and narrow as a result , he set the agenda for modern philosophy and theology . |
| 42 | ‘ It seems the continental disease may have been in this country for some time , ’ Dr Tapper says , ‘ but we do n't believe hare populations are in serious danger . ’ |
| 43 | ‘ The brilliant inventiveness of the engineers and scientists … would have been of little avail if this strong industrial base had not existed . ’ |
| 44 | In our view , routine casework unsupported by an active programme of service development would have been of little value and would probably have degenerated into a frustrating cycle of ‘ patch and mend ’ crisis management . |
| 45 | It would have been of little comfort to investors to learn that Chairman John Wheeler had , according to former business colleagues , been living a luxury lifestyle , spending almost £70,000 on refitting his yacht , and thousands of pounds renovating his six-bedroom house . |
| 46 | Everything was very hush-hush , and it was not until it was over that the name of the target was made common knowledge — not that it would have been of any interest to us if we had known beforehand , because none of us had ever heard of it . |
| 47 | In fact they are no more adequate for primitive societies than they would have been for any others . |
| 48 | If I could have departed then , never reentered the house , it would have been with some strength of mind . |
| 49 | And they would have been at that muckle supper . |
| 50 | And he came down he would have been working for he would have been at that time my great grandfather maybe or and he came down and he lived in lower Millfield after that and just as soon as he was out of his house , they just had the house demolished . |
| 51 | We must never forget , mind , either you or me , if it had n't been for Mrs Aggie and her yard , God knows where we would have been at this minute . |
| 52 | In years of high prices 20 per cent would have been in this situation , while in extremely hard years , such as 1801 , the proportion would have exceeded 40 per cent . |
| 53 | Lopes LJ : Speaking for myself , I think it ought to have been in that form , and probably a little bit stronger . |
| 54 | It will have been in this connection that he wrote the discarded pieces " On music and words " , which largely rework part " of " The Dionysiac Philosophy " of the previous year , but whose copious references to Schopenhauer , opera and Beethoven 's Choral Symphony relate directly to one side of the Wagner problem , though without any explicit stress on that fact . " |