Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [be] a [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 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |