Example sentences of "it [modal v] have been [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No it must have been before nineteen eighty . |
| 2 | There was a time , no doubt — it must have been before 1948 , when the United Kingdom itself abolished allegiance as the basis of citizenship — when the pretence of daughter monarchies around the globe was harmless and even arguably beneficial . |
| 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 | Well it would have been at one time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |