Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [be] [art] [noun] [Wh adv] " in BNC.

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1 It must have been a relief when trams were never once mentioned at his Blackpool interview !
2 There must have been a time when each of these practices ceased to be tolerable and reasonable behaviour .
3 For example , his eyes were necessary for the finding of food and the locating of enemies , to name but two of many purely necessary functions , but there must have been a time when he first began to enjoy the visual beauty all around him .
4 There must have been a time when we did n't quarrel , when we were just content to be together .
5 I suppose there must have been a time when it was n't like this ? ’
6 Erm , so er , there must have been a situation where he was discovered , that it was possible to split the atom , basically .
7 There must have been a moment when Juliet had shown some spark of individuality which he failed to foster .
8 We did walk somewhere one time and erm very very nice the it must have been the time when the salmon were riverside walk .
9 ‘ Well , if it was intended as a distraction , then that must have been the moment when he poisoned his wife .
10 The applicant sought relief on the grounds that ( 1 ) at the time the coroner took his original decision there was considerable evidence before him that the death would not have occurred but for delays experienced by the deceased 's family in contacting the ambulance service and later delays by the ambulance service in responding to repeated calls by the police for an ambulance to come to take the deceased to hospital as a matter of urgency ; ( 2 ) in reaching the conclusion that an inquest was unnecessary the coroner had misdirected himself in law for the reasons , inter alia , that ( i ) section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 required a coroner to hold an inquest where there was ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the deceased had died a ‘ violent or unnatural death ; ’ ( ii ) there had been clear and uncontradicted evidence before the coroner that avoidable and culpable delays by the ambulance service might have been the reason why the deceased 's asthma attack , which could have been treated in hospital , proved fatal , giving rise to a ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the cause of the deceased 's death was ‘ unnatural ; ’ and ( iii ) against that background , the coroner had erred in law in treating the pathologist 's conclusion as conclusive and had either misdirected himself as to the meaning of ‘ unnatural death ’ in section 8 of the Coroners Act 1988 or failed to apply the law properly to the facts of the case .
11 Of these , two were corn mills , one eventually became an iron works and the other probably a corn mill , although there may have been a period when it was used as a fulling mill .
12 As far as I know he never took her up on any of these , and that may have been the reason why I was her least favourite Waaf on the station .
13 This may have been the reason why no invitation was proffered .
14 This may have been the time when Nero and his advisers were concerned about Britain .
15 There would have been a time when most small city streets would have come clearly within the jurisdiction of one parish ; nothing so simple for Brunswick Place — it lay within the civil parish of St Leonards , the municipal ward of Hoxton New Town , the parliamentary borough of Hackney , the urban sanitary district of Hoxton , and the ecclesiastical parish of St John 's .
16 Certainly , if there was a degree of hostility to the Danes in London the anniversary of Ælfheah 's death on 19 April would have been a time when feelings ran particularly high , for Cnut 's England was clearly conscious of anniversaries of recent events , as awareness of the dates of the battle of Assandun in 1016 and the death of Edmund Ironside indicates .
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