Example sentences of "[modal v] have been [prep] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such an undertaking must have been of very little value . |
| 2 | For everyone who lost his faith , there must have been at least another who went to outcast London or to darkest Africa to convert the faint and hungry heathen ; there was a great deal of Christian confidence , and not simply a Church in retreat before agnostic scientists . |
| 3 | as far as I was concerned you might have been in there another fifteen minutes ! |
| 4 | With child care costs added to reasonable travelling expenses , this alone would have been worth as much as £40 a week now . |
| 5 | Parliament , it was said , could not have intended , despite the clearly expressed intention to the contrary , to have given the exclusion so limited an operation , for that would have been of very little assistance to the police . |
| 6 | The player 's display would have been of as much interest to the watching Celtic manager , Liam Brady , as the distressing form of his opponents on Saturday . |