Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [modal v] have be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Suggestions that the Bank of England may have been behind the operation were rejected by market professionals .
2 The population of these three conurbations was over 8 million which when added to a similar population in London meant that approximately one-third of the population of England would have been within areas covered by a two-tier structure of local government .
3 For the kings of the East Saxons to have acknowledged a dependency on the king of Kent would have been in the oldest known tradition of Kentish-East Saxon relationships , and the same is true of Surrey .
4 Supposing that the essential words conferring the primacy on all successive archbishops of Canterbury were in fact in the letters which Lanfranc mentioned , why did he go on at such length about the facts drawn from Bede , when a single quotation from one of the passages granting the primacy in perpetuity to the archbishops of Canterbury would have been worth all the rest of his argument put together ?
5 Sharing a duvet with Mia must have been like sleeping with Unicef .
6 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 .
7 If so , Cnut 's attack on Ely may have been after 1016 .
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