Example sentences of "[coord] it [modal v] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or it may have been through passive smoking . |
| 2 | At about the same time as he issued his threat of deposition to all the abbots of Normandy , he ordered Anselm to send him his Monologion and Proslogion , perhaps initially for censure , and it may have been through Hugh that Gregory VII knew Anselm 's works . |
| 3 | Wordsworth was the guest in Bristol of a wealthy sugar merchant , John Pretor Pinney , whose sons had recently befriended the poet , and it may have been at the Pinney town house in Great George Street that the meeting with Coleridge took place . |
| 4 | A predisposition to stress such as that apparently suffered by the accused in the present case might fall foul of this restriction and it may have been for this reason that the Court of Appeal preferred to regard the case as one which might have been disposed of under section 78 had not the trial judge wrongly taken the view that that section also requires some misconduct on the part of the police . |
| 5 | If external then the situation caused it and it may have been outside the control of the individual . |
| 6 | He had visited the place in 1937 and it must have been on this occasion that he took photographs of the village and of St Michael 's Church there ( where later his ashes were to be interred ) . |
| 7 | It also gives the information that Rolle was " accustomed to show himself very familiar to recluses , and to those who needed spiritual consolation " and it must have been during this period of his life that he met his disciple Margaret de Kirkeby . |
| 8 | And it let an old house alongside with nothing in it and hardly a door on it and that stood right alongside of that one and it must have been like a comb it just must have gone in strips the gale for that house was now twelve foot away from the other one . |
| 9 | It is not at all unlikely that some pressure was put on women in these two key firms , but it may have been of a persuasive rather than an intimidating kind . |
| 10 | I think it was on that Sunday , but it may have been on the Sunday before , that I gave the last message from the Burma Broadcasting Service . |
| 11 | Eventually , but it might have been in a couple of years I thought . |
| 12 | ‘ I can not recall the dates but it must have been in the very late twenties if I was still at school , because I left just as soon as I could when I made up fourteen . |
| 13 | It is difficult to visualize now , but it must have been within this pavilion that the young Roshanara consulted her spies as she reclined on carpets beside the gently bubbling irrigation runnels . |
| 14 | She became aware at an early stage that there was an entirely different way of life available not far outside Baldersdale , perhaps more appealing to her , but it could have been on another planet . |
| 15 | But it could have been on my knees . |
| 16 | But it could have been about the time Ephraim disappeared . ’ |
| 17 | No one can remember precisely when the last crime was committed , but it could have been in the early 1900s . |
| 18 | BELOW : Stanley Mill in 1987 , but it could have been in the last century , with its elegant , yet functional iron arches , which allowed plenty of room for line-shafting . |
| 19 | Generally , it is thought that the cheese took its name from Dunlop village or parish but it could have been from Mrs. Barbara Dunlop ; we will never know . |