Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] have [been] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The floor of these forests was , at best , only sparsely vegetated and great areas may have been entirely without any living leaves . |
| 2 | Pumpido had to make two saves while neither of the Italians need have been there at all . |
| 3 | If he had testified the alternatives would have been either for the judge to cross-examine him or for his evidence to remain untested and unchallenged . |
| 4 | If the SRs had achieved power , ‘ their actions would have been exactly like those of the Bolshevik Party . ’ |
| 5 | The males , now about 18 inches long , may have spent only three years in the rivers ; the females in the higher reaches may have been there for as many as eight or nine and are three times as long . |
| 6 | Kissing Ludovico in the cramped registry office , in front of strangers , she wished that her mother , Louise , Miss Hatherby and so many others could have been there with them . |
| 7 | ‘ And the other boots would have been just inside the baize door as usual , ’ said Ethel thoughtfully . |