Example sentences of "there [modal v] have [been] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | there may have been the odd light shower just to lay the dust but not a lot more . |
| 2 | I suppose there must have been the usual quota of cold , wet and windy days but I ca n't remember them . |
| 3 | Surely somewhere in the world there would have been the right facies preserved to provide the immediate ancestors of Peregrinella or Iguanodon ? |
| 4 | There would have been the ill-lit halls , impractical sanitary arrangements , filthy rush-laid floors and sparsely furnished rooms ; and if period duplicates had existed of Elizabethan interiors or classical Queen Anne houses that showed the inadequate lighting , heating and plumbing of the sixteenth , seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , how much easier , the guests agreed , it would be to appreciate the modern refinements which their own contemporaries took so much for granted . |
| 5 | On the one hand , then , there would have been the so-called ‘ Herodian Sadducees ’ , who clung to their Temple privileges and prerogatives under Herod 's reign and , after his death , accommodated themselves to the Roman administration . |