Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb mod] have be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the Maryland charter gave the Calverts the same executive authority as the Bishops of Durham held on the Scottish border , it required them to make sure that the colonists had approved the laws of their colony before they came into effect ; it may have been realized from earlier experience that an assembly was needed , or there may have been some feeling that a Catholic colony would have special problems . |
| 2 | The recommended books might have been borrowed from a fellow student , or bought , or there could have been some alternative reading . |
| 3 | Or it may have been that , looking at that blueprint form , some of them saw that something more could be done with it . |
| 4 | On the other hand , the pressing need for a dynamic pope to exploit the political vacuum left by the unexpected death of the Emperor Henry VI and the advantages of a third Roman pope in a row may have won over the opposition — and there may have been those impressed by his vigorous views on the papacy 's role . |
| 5 | The dental remains indicate little more than a dependence on a hard-fruit diet , and there may have been several species with this inclination . |
| 6 | Times were not easy and there would have been much evidence of hardship , although actually we know very little of the ordinary day-to-day life of the miner and his family . |
| 7 | She said : " I felt at an earlier stage there were enough moderate Africans who could have taken their place alongside whites in government and there would have been much more evolution towards African leadership than the revolution that came about in the end . |
| 8 | ‘ And there would have been little risk , if they had bothered to ask at Snow Hill what time the beat constable was due to pass by . |
| 9 | Du Camp probably coarsened it in the retelling , and there would have been many Flaubertian redraftings before publication . |
| 10 | But these were the only two films he had made in seven years , and there could have been little doubt that his particular tradition of uniformed , clenched , period Englishmen had become unfashionable in America with the coming of the new realist cinema immediately after the war . |
| 11 | Though the prestige of Aldfrith 's descent from the Uí Néill will not have been negligible , he was born out of wedlock and there must have been many legitimate sons of other Northumbrian lords who claimed descent from Ida . |
| 12 | It was not a contest to excite the audience and there must have been some anxiety in Mason 's corner as it approached a critical stage . |
| 13 | At that time the Particular Baptists were meeting in a private house and it may have been that fact rather than family disagreements on doctrinal issues which led to her being baptized at Netherfield Independent chapel on 6 August 1817 . |
| 14 | He had been active in south Wales under Edward IV , being made chamberlain there in 1479 , and it may have been this which brought him to Gloucester 's attention . |
| 15 | The weight of the church of Canterbury was behind Wihtred and it may have been this which ensured his success . |
| 16 | He had been active in south Wales under Edward IV , being made chamberlain there in 1479 , and it may have been this which brought him to Gloucester 's attention . |
| 17 | But er you know , and it would have been such a waste cos he 's bright . |
| 18 | And it must have been some comfort to her , a few months later , to receive a picture of Anna , healthy , happy , as she could never have been in the orphanage . |
| 19 | A hook solved the initial problem , then a long , unprotected traverse ( great fun seconding ! ) led to more blank wall and what must have been some truly desperate leading . |
| 20 | WE shall probably never know the appointments Neil Kinnock had in store for his first week as Prime Minister , but there would have been some surprises . |
| 21 | This may have played some role in the big decline in the profitability of Japanese industry over the same period as Japanese exporters were forced to accept lower profit margins , but there will have been some compensating improvement in the profitability of import-competing industries in the United States and Europe as Japanese exporters found themselves obliged to raise their prices to recoup some of the cost increases . |
| 22 | It is easy at this distance in time to explain the pattern away as an inevitable feature of the wider transition from one form of economy to another , but there can have been little pleasure for families like the Eldridges or Mepkins of Battle whose members appeared regularly in the poor-relief accounts over several generations . |
| 23 | I am not spreading or sagging , the glow of an early sun tan had probably removed a year or two and I 've discovered that lipstick does wonders , but there could have been little doubt in his mind that I was closer in age to his mother than to him . |
| 24 | Umpire Alley eventually warned Holding , but there must have been many Lancastrians who were sad to see Lloyd , on his home ground , do nothing about it . |
| 25 | There were no longer any grave differences of principle between him and the king , but there must have been many routine tasks after so long an absence , and these seem to have occupied the greater part of 1107 . |
| 26 | There may have been cases where the acquisition of the wrappers conferred no direct benefit on the Nestle Co. , but there must have been many cases where it did . |
| 27 | ‘ But there must have been some word , ’ she said impatiently , ‘ some message . ’ |
| 28 | The above-mentioned aerodromes are only two I have selected , but they could have been any of many in both countries . |
| 29 | How long it took the different ancestors of these very different animals to evolve such tongues we do not know for there is no fossil evidence of any antiquity to tell us , but it must have been several million years . |
| 30 | It so happened that it fell to the lot of Geoffrey Holton and Chris Protheroe to do the donkey work in the Lusaka accident , but it could have been any of the twenty or so investigators in AIB . |