Example sentences of "it [modal v] have been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or it may have been through passive smoking . |
| 2 | It may have been through this same intuitive process that he first decided to move towards the field of Art Education . |
| 3 | The Oxford Regional Health Authority is admitting it may have been over optimistic when it estimated income from the sale of land . |
| 4 | It may have been during this period that he was supported by a canonry in St Peter 's , to which he later referred as pope . |
| 5 | It may have been at this time that the name Saladin began to mean something to him . |
| 6 | A predisposition to stress such as that apparently suffered by the accused in the present case might fall foul of this restriction and it may have been for this reason that the Court of Appeal preferred to regard the case as one which might have been disposed of under section 78 had not the trial judge wrongly taken the view that that section also requires some misconduct on the part of the police . |
| 7 | Impressive reading it may have been for some , but tantalizing for the men and they certainly rose to the occasion . |
| 8 | Lopes LJ : Speaking for myself , I think it ought to have been in that form , and probably a little bit stronger . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It also gives the information that Rolle was " accustomed to show himself very familiar to recluses , and to those who needed spiritual consolation " and it must have been during this period of his life that he met his disciple Margaret de Kirkeby . |
| 11 | He had visited the place in 1937 and it must have been on this occasion that he took photographs of the village and of St Michael 's Church there ( where later his ashes were to be interred ) . |
| 12 | There is a display also of various types of mountain refuge or cabin , from which you can judge how extremely uncomfortable it must have been for those invited by Count Russell to share his quarters on his favourite mountain of Vignemale , for the so-called ‘ Russell ’ is quite the most Spartan of shelters , little more than a hollow scooped out under an overhanging rock . |
| 13 | It must have been with some degree of cautiousness and a heightened sense of responsibility that Gould once more stocked up on shot , caps , and powder on his way back through Launceston for the journey home . |
| 14 | It must have been at that time that his habit of keeping notes on his travels began . |
| 15 | It must have been at some time , because I can speak it now . |
| 16 | No it must have been before nineteen eighty . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It is difficult to visualize now , but it must have been within this pavilion that the young Roshanara consulted her spies as she reclined on carpets beside the gently bubbling irrigation runnels . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , it must have been after that he had his accident . ’ |
| 20 | Something like that , it must have been like that . |
| 21 | It must have been like that for Euturpia , when she was turned out to the cabana . |
| 22 | ‘ It must have been like this in Arkaig when my father first went there , ’ Cameron said to Menzies . |
| 23 | It must have been like this watching a man being broken on the rack , Blanche thought . |
| 24 | If this prophecy conveys anything of the sentiments of the Crowland community at the time , it must have been from congenial company hostile to Penda 's descendants that Aethelbald emerged to establish himself as king in Mercia , if not when Ceolred died ( ASC A , s.a. , 716 ) then certainly when an otherwise unknown Ceolwald , who may have succeeded Ceolred , died or was driven out . |
| 25 | Others , however , joined in the exercise : ‘ It must have been in such and such a way ; I mean , there 's a story which says … |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | So it must have been in nineteen eighty nine , just after the |
| 28 | It must have been in that one moment of darkness , as she 'd been taking her hand away . |
| 29 | It must have been in these years that Henry II and Eleanor became increasingly estranged . |
| 30 | This is not , as it might have been with such a tale , the cuckolded merchant , but rather Margery , the stupid wife , who is particularly funny because she is so unthinkingly conventionally good and who effaces any real self she may be imagined to have within a cluster of clichés . |