Example sentences of "[modal v] have been in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They helped him many a time to keep his head above water or else we should have been in a poor way . ’ |
| 2 | Now in some respects what I think should happen , is we should , yeah we should not be negative about going on the course , but in terms of the financial implications I 'm very worried about that and I think there is a erm , there is some need for the client to say , that if he wants us to go on this course we 're happy to go on it , but that he should look seriously at financing and he plus it should have been in the tender document . |
| 3 | But the neighbours want the hole moved to where it should have been in the first place . |
| 4 | and she put on the back of this one she was thankful that at least I 'd managed this time to get the mark in the area where it should have been in the first |
| 5 | Little John Tomlins should have been in the same room . |
| 6 | Now , we hear time and time again of the one million capital that was spent and yes and I do hope that the provisions that will now be made through a combined budget which Mr seems to think is half a million but I can assure you it is not half a million however , I do I can further reassure him that by the time the Highfields er and Moat management committee have gone through with this it will be half a million , there will be a proper budget provision as it should have been in the last five to six years . |
| 7 | ‘ You must have been in a bad way . |
| 8 | This must have been in the two years between the autumn or summer of 1187 , when he left Paris , and September 1189 , by which time he had been created a cardinal deacon by his relative , Pope Clement III . |
| 9 | It must have been in the late 1960s or early 1970s that I was bemoaning this problem with my French colleague Michel Vigier who was also disturbed at the prospect of being snowed under with an indigestible amount of data from DFDRs . |
| 10 | The same thing is seen in a more hesitant form on another boy ( fig. 71 ) , and here the very slight tilt and turn of the head are part of a change in the pose of the whole figure , as they must have been in the fair-haired boy also . |
| 11 | Those Belgians must have been in the wrong place at the wrong time , and they probably saw something they should n't have seen , so someone shut them up for good . |
| 12 | But for the mechanical hospital bed , she might have been in a first-class hotel : the sitting room was agreeably furnished in eau-de-Nil , the bedroom in old rose ; the interconnecting rooms faced the sea over lawns and flower beds , though they were bleak at this time of the year . |
| 13 | However he considered that Vial ‘ was a man of such good natural abilities that when his mind was at ease , he had so much application that his deficiencies , had he lived , might have been in a great measure made up ’ . |
| 14 | As for the House of Mattli , it might have been in a different world to the hostel , with its air of being a cross between a workhouse and a boarding school . |
| 15 | Was after world war one anyway I mind of that , so say it might have been in the twenties he might have done I would n't say proper |
| 16 | They might have been in the private wing , put away by their guilty and embarrassed families . |
| 17 | The indignation of the trade union mounts ; there is the threat of a strike ; Government , which fears a strike more than the nationalised undertaking , sounds the call for retreat ; and amid paeans of praise for everybody 's wisdom in choosing the path of peace the claim is settled — more generously than it could have been in the first place ( Aubrey Jones , cited in Bell 1975 : 10 ) . |
| 18 | No one can remember precisely when the last crime was committed , but it could have been in the early 1900s . |
| 19 | BELOW : Stanley Mill in 1987 , but it could have been in the last century , with its elegant , yet functional iron arches , which allowed plenty of room for line-shafting . |
| 20 | I could have been in the same room with the murderer back at Livingstone Manor . |
| 21 | She groaned and turned over , hoping she would fall asleep again , but her brain insisted on relaying pictures of her twin , so vividly that Dana could have been in the same room . |
| 22 | or they 'd have been in a different position |
| 23 | Alhred 's power-base may have been in the lower Tyne , for the body of his son , Osred , was carried to Tynemouth to be buried in the monastery there . |
| 24 | It may have been in the early 630s , when Oswiu was in his late teens , that he married Riemmelth , granddaughter of Rhun ( HB ch. 57 ) , for he had a son , Ealhfrith , and a daughter , Ealhflaed , old enough to be married c. 650 ( HE 111 , 21 ) . |
| 25 | However amenable to overseas influence Boiotia may have been in the prehistoric period ( p. 83 ) , classical , fourth-century and hellenistic Boiotia was in many respects deeply conservative and introverted . |
| 26 | However successful these policies may have been in the fifties we have , I believe , convincing evidence that they have failed since the world-wide inflation which started with the mismanagement of the finances raised to pay for the Vietnam War . |
| 27 | Pursuing this laissez-faire policy may have been in the national interest , but it did n't seem to be in John 's or that of the other hostages . |
| 28 | Weak though its labour organisation may have been in the 1880s , it had a longer tradition of trade unionism among seamen than any other part of the country . |
| 29 | The stress may have been in the wrong place . |
| 30 | We are all aware that streams dry up , valleys fill with silt ( Fig. 3 ) , and that changes can occur along the coast , but we perhaps underestimate how great these changes may have been in the last 1000 years . |