Example sentences of "[adv] [modal v] have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they had been at liberty to quit the vessel at Cronstadt , the case would have been quite different ; or if the captain had capriciously discharged the two men who were wanting , the others might not have been compellable to take the whole duty upon themselves , and their agreeing to do so might have been a sufficient consideration for the promise of an advance of wages . |
| 2 | My mother always kept letters in their envelopes and a lot of other people must have done the same or the stamp business generally would have been the poorer . ’ |
| 3 | The trees thinned to reveal what once might have been a clearing but which now resembled only a poisonous-looking wilderness . |
| 4 | Despite the earlier declaration of principle , agriculture perhaps was an area where there always would have been a high probability of a clash of interests between supranationalism and national concerns . |
| 5 | By what route this strategy will proceed is unclear — technology swapping , OEM or other — however , the company admits that it probably would have been a good idea had Tandem Computers Inc and Pyramid had meshed their respective hardware and Unix software experience in that area two years ago . |
| 6 | That Lions tour party breakdown probably would have been the initial thoughts of the selectors in January . |
| 7 | And finally , a lot of games coming up , a lot of midweek games , so plenty of chance for United to erm continue to climb the table , although three points against the side on equal points really would have been a great bonus would n't it ? |
| 8 | The Randalstown club came ever so close to taking the title for the first time , and had they done so they arguably would have been the first second division club to win Ireland 's blue riband team championship . |
| 9 | The grandson of today may have been the beloved teacher of centuries ago . |
| 10 | I thought driving up today would have been a good day but the reality is that it is not going to start until Easter time . |
| 11 | Today would have been the sixth . |
| 12 | On the conscious level , this was almost certainly not so , though deep down there may have been a certain complicity . |
| 13 | If Charlie had triggered it there 'd have been a big back-up of propaganda and so on . |
| 14 | Anthropologists increasingly agree that until agriculture had evolved there could have been no modern ‘ rain-forest man ’ . |
| 15 | For those in the middle of these events , there was in addition to the tension and the menace , a certain air of unreality ; this raises the part played by drugs , not merely in the emergence of a forceful counter-culture , but in the attitudes of plain straightforward young people to whom any kind of illicit substance a couple of years earlier would have been a complete mystery . |
| 16 | Had it been properly directed there would have been a good contract and A would have been liable in damages to B for not delivering the horse . |
| 17 | There was no torpedo on board when the aircraft crashed — no unexploded torpedo was found by the French , if the torpedo had exploded there would have been a tremendous explosion and the aircraft would have been totally destroyed . |
| 18 | What seeped out of the and mixed with some air from there would have been a little dung in it to it stood half the summer and got to be really high . |
| 19 | If he had taken her here on the couch a few minutes ago , as he had so nearly done , their abandonment to passion then would have been a mutual — equal — thing , but now he was back to being the dominant partner in what remained of their relationship , controlling it and her . |
| 20 | Much of the historical evidence presented in this chapter suggests that under the harsh conditions of poverty which prevailed for most people in the early industrial period , family relationships necessarily were highly instrumental , with support being offered only if there was some hope of mutual benefit precisely because anything else would have been an unaffordable luxury . |
| 21 | The cost of the entire operation was competitive with glass bottles and , moreover , the package and contents could be dropped without damage or loss and therefore should have been an attractive proposition to supermarkets and bottling plants alike . |
| 22 | Had the pattern of the King 's demise been different , so too might have been the whole shape of the end of Baldwin 's premiership . |