Example sentences of "[ex0] [vb mod] have [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exactly how many boxes there were originally is not certain , although it seems there may have been as many as sixty-five , all of which were sent to Rome 's Istituto Centrale del Restauro in 1947 . |
| 2 | There may have been as many as 200 women compositors in London in the early 1890s , but as has been noted , the London Society of Compositors was able to exert pressure on employers and see that on the whole they were vanishing or being expelled to printing-houses in the Home Counties . |
| 3 | There may have been so much conflict indoors that you had to construct your shelter elsewhere . |
| 4 | Then there must have been more personal anger . |
| 5 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 6 | There must have been about nine or ten of them — all men except for one woman — and they tried to say it took all of them to restrain me . |
| 7 | There must have been about twelve of us . |
| 8 | And there must have been about ten thousand there last time . |
| 9 | There must have been about forty or fifty of them . |
| 10 | ‘ There must have been about 30 pairs in the drawer but I just happened to pick the one with the money . |
| 11 | If there was in operation a good system to prevent alien matter entering the lemonade then someone who worked there must have been very negligent if alien matter got in despite the system . |
| 12 | Apparently there must have been very heavy rain higher up the dale because there had been some flooding and the river was running very fast . |
| 13 | She reckoned there must have been as many as four hundred of them . |
| 14 | Had Schmeichel , the giant Danish international goalkeeper , not intervened and dragged Bruce out of the melee by the scruff of his neck , there might have been more red cards . |
| 15 | I felt that there could have been slightly more involvement with the police at this point , as it would have been quite interesting to hear their views on this problem . |
| 16 | New Zealand also has the flightless kiwi ( its national symbol ) and was once dominated by the flightless moas , of which there could have been about 25 species . |
| 17 | There could have been so much important material in what has been called " The Domesday Book of the Highlands and Islands . " |
| 18 | There could have been so much important material in what has been called " The Domesday Book of the Highlands and Islands . " |
| 19 | To my mum , you know she 's passed , you 're daft , but there 'd have been so much hassle for me to get there ! |
| 20 | This was the traditional mooring place for dahabeeyahs and in the old days , before Mr Cook had come with his steamers , there would have been over two hundred of them nudging the bank . |
| 21 | To move forward to the present there would have been yet another shock for Green . |
| 22 | She had been about to collude with Stan in the face of all her good resolutions , and there would have been yet another indelible stain on her spirit which , she suspected , were it available to her , she would not care to put unwashed in her underwear drawer . |
| 23 | I mean there , there would have been presumably enormous opposition to that and in the process output would have almost certainly fallen an an and er there were no resources for mechanization so collectivization as a short-term option is really out . |
| 24 | There would have been less practical difficulty about saying that trade ceased when business ceased actively to be carried on , because there was a further period of a year during which a petition could be presented . |
| 25 | Equally , had county councils shown greater vision , more smaller settlements would have been built , and there would have been less urban sprawl , less despoliation of county towns , and fewer hideous spec-building estates on the fringes of attractive old villages . |
| 26 | The local man replied " There would have been as much enthusiasm if you had done the same tonight . " |
| 27 | There would have been more medical concern . |