Example sentences of "[subord] it [modal v] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think they were all impressed , although it may have been at the thought of Gran going camping ! |
| 2 | It would not come although it must have been on the same day as the trip to the cathedral and her aunt had undoubtedly been with her . |
| 3 | Schwartzman and Volk reckon that weathering was helped along to such an extent that the Earth is 35°C cooler than it would have been on the lifeless Earth . |
| 4 | This implies that the number of jobs associated with any given level of output in the economy will be smaller than it would have been without the technological advances . |
| 5 | Thanks to the presence of Scottish Hydro-Electric 's storage dams in the hills , the flow passing Perth on 18 January was in fact materially less than it would have been without them . |
| 6 | First , it was easier for a disembodied voice like de Gaulle to " assume " France than it would have been for a more recognizable figure , about whom people had already formed settled views . |
| 7 | Output is accordingly lower than it would have been under conditions of perfect competition , and resources are diverted to alternative , less valuable uses . |
| 8 | 1-2-3 release 3.4 for DOS makes nothing easier than it would have been under Windows , but even the Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows version needs a major overhaul before many folk will take it seriously . |
| 9 | The original porous bone has been consolidated to become much heavier than it would have been in life . |
| 10 | The teachers ' industrial action has limited this particular development , and the evaluators know of seven events which were either postponed or cancelled during the two years of the evaluation ; it is also probably the case that attendance at those events that did run was less than it would have been in happier times . |
| 11 | Table 16.8 shows that the household is marginally better off out of work than it would have been in work . |
| 12 | Through binoculars from the press box , it was no less baffling than it must have been from the pitch-side dug-out . |
| 13 | The indignation of the trade union mounts ; there is the threat of a strike ; Government , which fears a strike more than the nationalised undertaking , sounds the call for retreat ; and amid paeans of praise for everybody 's wisdom in choosing the path of peace the claim is settled — more generously than it could have been in the first place ( Aubrey Jones , cited in Bell 1975 : 10 ) . |
| 14 | It was short and straight , which was more than could be said for her mouth , which was curvy and rather wider than it should have been for her ashen , wedge-shaped face . |
| 15 | I think the department of Health was swayed rather more than it should have been by that lobby , because the sort of service that was intended to set up in Camberwell has not yet been set up . |
| 16 | I 'm sure you 're inside by now and I did n't see you , so it must have been over the gardens to the back door . |
| 17 | The Ministry of Reconstruction , the only potential co-ordinating body for post-war plans , was dismantled in June 1919 , just when it should have been at the peak of its activities . |
| 18 | Here , the failure to consult was material because if the community health council had been consulted when it should have been in May , 1992 , it might have helped to ensure that the commitment to transfer the unit to the new hospital remained until a satisfactory new home for the unit could be found . |
| 19 | Writing is made to seem a small betrayal , as it may have been in the life of Prentice 's Uncle Rory , who makes a prize-winning living as the author of travel books about ‘ unlikely destinations ’ and who is absent from the grandmother 's funeral where the story begins ( with a predictable bang ) . |
| 20 | My Troop — 10th Leith ( Balfour Melville ) — frequently marched with the rest of the Edinburgh District Scouts and I found the flag holster a great comfort — as it would have been to " Sister Anna " — since , in the song , she only had a " banner-carrying navel " as I recall . |
| 21 | Yet this admission was not so grievous for Tate as it would have been for others . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , it seems highly improbable that had it been pursued the ‘ revolutionary ’ alternative , deprived as it would have been of any significant outside help , would have proved any more successful . |
| 23 | It 's as near to the as it would have been from there |
| 24 | But it was not enough to give me a complex , not as it would have been in America . |
| 25 | It was soft , but as brisk and clear as it would have been in the middle of the day . |
| 26 | A reconstruction ( looking NW ) of the area of the Atlas works of Simpson , Maule & Nicholson , as it would have been in the 1860s . |
| 27 | In many industries , a strike in 1984 is almost as likely to result in fatalities , injuries , or destruction of property as it would have been in 1934 or even 1904 . |
| 28 | Sometimes the contrast is not so clearly expressed for us in the twentieth century as it would have been in the first century , so we have to rely on commentaries to point out the way that the apostle was thinking . |
| 29 | The restoration enables visitors to see it as it would have been in use in good running order but not ‘ as new ’ . |
| 30 | Both are drawn from archival and historical records and show the High Street as it would have been in 1540 , at the close of the last independent century of Scottish culture and accomplishment when 22 kings , queens and princes lay undisturbed and revered by pilgrims in the abbey . |