Example sentences of "it [modal v] have been in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lopes LJ : Speaking for myself , I think it ought to have been in that form , and probably a little bit stronger . |
| 2 | Others , however , joined in the exercise : ‘ It must have been in such and such a way ; I mean , there 's a story which says … |
| 3 | She did n't finish her apprenticeship — I deduce that , rather than know it — sometime , it must have been in 1934 , came south , worked in Woolworths on the Edgware Road , spent the war years in Roehampton , a ward maid again , at the hospital where they mended fighter pilots ' ruined faces . |
| 4 | So it must have been in nineteen eighty nine , just after the |
| 5 | It must have been in that one moment of darkness , as she 'd been taking her hand away . |
| 6 | It must have been in these years that Henry II and Eleanor became increasingly estranged . |
| 7 | Said it 'll have been in all day . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It will have been in this connection that he wrote the discarded pieces " On music and words " , which largely rework part " of " The Dionysiac Philosophy " of the previous year , but whose copious references to Schopenhauer , opera and Beethoven 's Choral Symphony relate directly to one side of the Wagner problem , though without any explicit stress on that fact . " |