Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] have [be] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're crazy about each other and should never have been apart this last year , but it 's fate , you see , coming here and bumping into them like that in that restaurant . ’ |
| 2 | And then I realized it might not have been so all of a sudden at that . |
| 3 | Luckily Miss Malley was on leave at the time , otherwise this event might just have been too much for her . |
| 4 | It might even have been just another sound effect . |
| 5 | That house might well have been here that big house just there across th in there which has now been turned into flats . |
| 6 | Even though the annual value of these rights could hardly have been as much as £100,000 a year , the Company was ready to outdo the Bank of England and the East India Company and take on £9½m. of the National Debt , which would have been about a quarter of the total outstanding after the Treaty of Utrecht . |
| 7 | Brian felt that sleep need not have been too much of a problem : he could go to sleep , but the staff would not let him . |
| 8 | A return to the reviled rates would presumably have been too much to take . |
| 9 | This brain drain' must have been viewed by the authorities as acute , otherwise there would not have been so much coverage of the issue in the media . |
| 10 | By the time the mare impacts occurred there would probably have been too little dust available to fill the maria . |
| 11 | The queen dowager would probably have been considerably more of an embarrassment at large , and the Crowland chronicler implies that Gloucester did not really want to resolve the question . |
| 12 | The queen dowager would probably have been considerably more of an embarrassment at large , and the Crowland chronicler implies that Gloucester did not really want to resolve the question . |
| 13 | There ca n't have been above half a dozen universities teaching drama and Bristol was the only one that was really reputed then . |
| 14 | ‘ Coun Richmond has seen a shopping trolley and complained but that trolley wo n't have been there more than a week , yet when his party were running the council there were ducks nesting in trolleys , ’ said Coun Young . |
| 15 | Later , two men took me into a corner and fired questions at me for what seemed like ages , but can only have been about half an hour . |