Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [modal v] have been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said last night , ‘ I played steady golf and , although I could have been a bit sharper , I am not disappointed with my start . |
| 2 | Although it may have been a convenient way of getting her out of the country , this also indicates that Ælfgifu had previously enjoyed a recognised position . |
| 3 | The fines on non-attendance at church were increased from 12d a week to £20 a month , although it would have been a courageous churchwarden who presented the local landlord to account for Popish practices . |
| 4 | Apparently she had a severe allergic reaction to the drug , although it could have been a lethal impurity in the tab she took . |
| 5 | In fact , he holds a bronze medal , although it could have been a silver or even a gold if a ref in Los Angeles had n't acted too hastily . |
| 6 | Although it could have been a genuine geographical variation , the fear was that staff were failing to record them because they thought this might lead to unresolvable problems which would jeopardise planning . |
| 7 | He appeared slight standing next to the sergeant major , although he must have been a shade over six feet himself . |
| 8 | As a result of the improved revaluation changes , explained earlier , this option could be considerably more attractive than it would have been a couple of years ago . |
| 9 | The second is that , in fact , direct democracy could be a great deal more widely practised than it actually is , and that some modern technological developments have made it easier to implement than it might have been a century ago . |
| 10 | Thiercelin was somewhat less interested than he would have been a few days earlier . |
| 11 | Mm , apparently the guy that was driving it had overalls on , so he may have been a mechanic delivering it to somewhere or test driving it over there |
| 12 | Great-Grandfather was running a farm at the same time , so he must have been a very busy man . |
| 13 | So it must have been a grown person 's skull but it 's too small and light for an adult male , so it must have been a woman . |
| 14 | In retrospect , Ken is a little unhappy that he did n't ask his belayer to place the pegs so it could have been an on-sight flash . |
| 15 | Once it must have been a familiar sight in Cheltenham ; now the horse drawn carriage looks a little out of place among the busy traffic , snaking it 's way around the towns one-way system . |
| 16 | The little blue trolls from space , the black-eyed pointy-chinned grey things in charge , the anal probing they inflicted on Christopher Walken inside something that looked like it might have been a UFO , event he awe-inspiring ham standard of Walken 's performance — they were all OK . |
| 17 | You 'd 've been alright if it 'd 've been a mass murderer slept for years . |
| 18 | He 's had a lot of fuss made of him in Britain , but if he 'd have been an American , his win would probably have rated one line in their papers . ’ |
| 19 | Just because I may have been a little short-tempered of late — ’ |
| 20 | I excluded the whole of Scotland because she would have been a little too near home — even in Glasgow there was just the chance that someone might find her or she might bump into someone from home . ’ |
| 21 | No , but I might have known him because he might have been a junior . |
| 22 | Certainly one is not under an obligation to look after the child if one did not promise to do so just because it would have been a good thing to promise . |
| 23 | My only regret on that particular occasion now is that I did n't organise properly getting it videotaped , because it would have been a nice thing to keep , but as far as I could I kept to the traditions of mayoral ceremonial on those sorts of occasions . |
| 24 | My only regret on that particular occasion now is that I did n't organise properly getting it videotaped , because it would have been a nice thing to keep , but as far as I could I kept to the traditions of mayoral ceremonial on those sorts of occasions . |
| 25 | We had to explain to them what a three-dimensional , you know , lock-up page was and why , you know , gutters were a certain width and if you had column rules and gutters , you know , why they were centered and why you could n't , if you had a wide margin below three columns of text why you did n't move the gutter beyond where the text was n't so white , or why you did n't move it down and have it join a rule here because it would have been a real pain in the arse to have to do that in metal , so you just sit and do it . |
| 26 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal was not satisfied that this amounted to a binding agreement , but held that even if it did , it would have been rendered void because it would have been an agreement purporting to preclude the employee from presenting a complaint to a tribunal . |
| 27 | Neither gave an inch all afternoon simply because it would have been an insult to have done any differently . |
| 28 | Whether it was the distance , whether the record , because it must have been a record , had been deliberately slowed — there seemed to be some tonal distortion as well — I could n't tell , but the song came with a dreamlike slowness and dimness , almost as if it was being sung out of the stars and had had to cross all that night and space to reach me . |
| 29 | However , whereas it should have been a joyous occasion , it was not . |
| 30 | They must have been on to her or somebody 's given her away , one or t' other , 'cos it must have been a set-up cop . |