Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | If Pine v. Collacott itself had originally been under challenge in your Lordships ' House on the ground that in an obligatory section 7(4) case the simple requirement that the driver provide a specimen of blood without reference to the possible alternative of urine was insufficient , I should have been inclined to reject that challenge . |
2 | I was favoured with your letter and should have been glad to embrace this opportunity of sending a packet of seeds to Dr. Manetti of Florence , but the season has been so cold that but few of them have ripened as yet , but if the next month proves favourable , I hope to send him some in November , if you have any opportunity to convey them . |
3 | Juliette Drouet , the mistress of Victor Hugo and his companion on his travels , was put out that a woman other than herself should have been able to make this ‘ difficult ascent ’ and claimed that the Duchess had needed the services of thirty guides and helpers ; less jaundiced reporters speak only of two . |
4 | To assist in the establishment of such a regime the bureaucracy must have been able to conserve most of its resources intact through the preceding liberal-democratic regime . |
5 | She must have been able to lick enough water to keep alive , ’ he said . |
6 | You must have been able to squeeze half an hour sometime or other . |
7 | Oh , you must have been able to squeeze half an hour some time or other . |
8 | Arnie must have been thrilled to get such a big turn-out . |
9 | The situation at the other end must have been grave to warrant such an effort . |
10 | ‘ It might have been possible to prevent this . ’ |
11 | Although it might have been possible to attempt some form of categorisation of the types of detail which were recalled at different risk levels , it is not clear that the data from this study are really powerful enough to support such an analysis . |
12 | If we had stuck with the fair rates policy the vast majority of people in Britain might have been able to bear that price and public services would remain public services , not sacrificial lambs on the altar of the ideology of the Conservative party . |
13 | I 'd 've been inclined to do that thing on it . |
14 | Dear me , she 'd have been sad to see this day . ’ |
15 | While the excavation was in progress , it may have been possible to wash some of the finds and mark each one with a code indicating where it was found : this task has to be completed before any further work can be done . |
16 | Doctors at the French town of Moutiers said if they had been told sooner on Saturday they may have been able to save some of the victim 's lives . |
17 | Doctors at the French town of Moutiers said if they had been told sooner on Saturday they may have been able to save some of the victim 's lives . |
18 | The shire and hundred meetings may have been able to exercise some kind of control over this , although a king who allowed himself and his servants too much leeway would have been difficult to oppose directly . |
19 | In other words designers at DEC may have been able to make some process concessions to achieve a record clock rate that might not be appropriate for other architectures . |
20 | He has been taking medication and it is believed he may have been able to hide some of the drug . |
21 | The teacher found that four could read Messrs Nelson 's Shilling Book , six the Sixpenny Book , and ten only the Threepenny Book " With the " board schools " in their infancy , it was by no means clear that it would have been possible to recruit many girls of working-class origin into the trade in the early 1870s . |
22 | I would have been pleased to own any of these , but after they were finished she told me they were all ordered . |
23 | It might have been difficult to prove that librarians themselves took the initiative for the censorship , although many would have been pleased to make that claim . |
24 | I would have been pleased to start this section in similar fashion , but could find very little evidence of improvements . |
25 | It would have been unremarkable had this been done through the publication of explanatory leaflets and brochures emanating from the Ministry of Transport . |
26 | The draw cost Norwich crucial points in the championship race and assistant manager John Deehan said : ‘ It would have been nice to close that gap at the top because we now find ourselves a bit adrift . |
27 | It would have been nice to get another couple of matches under my belt for Wimbledon . ’ |
28 | It would have been nice to get another couple of matches under my belt for Wimbledon . ’ |
29 | ‘ I see Dr Nichols would have been due to cover this evening 's surgery anyway . ’ |
30 | Most of these , if asked , would have been unwilling to support any increase in attainment testing or in subjective assessment of character , but their expressed unease about testing could help to feed that of others , who would then fall back on what had ‘ worked ’ in the past . |