Example sentences of "[adv] it [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore it might have been thought that the compact microfilm system would have found its way from outreach extensions into busy bureaux to replace the cumbersome paper files but , as will be seen in Chapter 5 , it is in fact likely to remain purely a portable tool . |
| 2 | ‘ If the knackers had bid for him I would have outbid him and kept him myself , I do n't care how much it would have cost , ’ she says . |
| 3 | Practically a tennis dress , Flavia noted with approval , having no idea who had made it , nor indeed that it was made , nor how much it must have cost . |
| 4 | And how long it would have taken me alone ! ’ |
| 5 | The printing press enabled Luther to start a Reformation — think how long it would have taken him to preach his way round Germany . |
| 6 | Can you mind roughly h how long it would have taken you to get the rough survey . |
| 7 | See , you see it 's okay this guy being funny like that but we er we , I think we 've got every right to be D' ya mean if we had n't actually have been starting the work , heaven knows how long it would have been before we 'd actually got the invoices paid ! |
| 8 | Well not necessarily it could have some loopy beads or something could n't you ? |
| 9 | If Jewish control could not be challenged constitutionally it would have to be done by acts of Steel ; and he saw the time approaching when , like the mayor of Bethlehem , he would have to arm his son against the Jews . |
| 10 | Very well ; perhaps it may have come to your notice that those self-same premises are at present vacant , and advertised to be let ? ’ |
| 11 | Perhaps it would have been too easy : they 'd made love the first night they met , both involved with women who gave them pain . |
| 12 | Perhaps it would have been better for them if they had gone straight to hostels or agricultural training camps . |
| 13 | 24 April : The Sun seems to be having second thoughts about Ken Livingstone : ‘ If the Labour Party had been led by John Smith over the last nine years , perhaps it would have been in power today , ’ says an editorial . |
| 14 | Perhaps it would have been more interesting if we were , ’ said Andrew . |
| 15 | Perhaps it would have been better to spout the usual platitudes about the skills of museum workers who have succeeded in these hard times in preserving and accumulating , acquiring and saving . |
| 16 | Perhaps it would have been better to use the subjects as springboards for complete fiction , leaving the pedantic detail — and the risk of libel suits — behind , and taking off into the story-telling stratosphere . |
| 17 | Perhaps it would have been necessary , in order to eliminate the reign of King Edward VIII , not merely for King George V to have lived a few months under the sentence of death , but for Neville Chamberlain , never one for tolerant inactivity whatever his other faults , to have succeeded MacDonald in 1935 . |
| 18 | Perhaps it would have been had the South American dealer not ignored his every letter , fax and telephone call requesting confirmation of delivery date . |
| 19 | Perhaps it would have been better to have organized an evening in the pub . |
| 20 | If only she 'd been able to ask him why , perhaps it would have been more bearable . |
| 21 | Rain said : ‘ Perhaps it would have happened anyway . |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps it would have been better if they had . ’ |
| 23 | She did n't even know at what point friendship had turned into love , and if she had realised it when it happened the new bud of feeling might have blossomed crazily into hopeless longing and tongue-tied need … or perhaps it would have frosted away and died . |
| 24 | Perhaps it would have been better for the apple if it had never had ideas above its station , if it had never started carrying around so much symbolic baggage . |
| 25 | Perhaps it would have been better if this last week had never happened , if she had never even met Fen Marshall . |
| 26 | Mm it 's rather sweet , perhaps it would have looked nice a bit further down . |
| 27 | If you 'd wanted to separate off your paras , you 'd put in a full size slug because it was easy to make up and the whole thing was absolutely modular erm but perhaps it would have looked better if it had been A four , or you know , Swiss in some way . |
| 28 | Do n't you think that perhaps it might have been better for the oil companies to have perhaps done more at an earlier stage , in the the safety side of things ? |
| 29 | Then erm one could go on , because the building industry , for instance , civil engineering , road construction , actual buildings being constructed , they 're all very weather-prone , for quite a large extent of the contract , and so we provide erm weather advice to these people throughout the contract period usually , and not only throughout the contract period , but if the contract is held up because of weather then the , we get extension of contract comes into this , we can advise both sides on whether the claim is justified or not , because we have the statistics of how much rain fell , how cold it was , or perhaps it might have been a windy spell . |
| 30 | Naturally they saw less of each other , and Robyn was aware that this did not cause her to repine as much as perhaps it should have done . |