Example sentences of "[num] [modal v] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | In retrospect the most important event of 1986 may have been the conception of the new Networker train , filling a vital gap price and quality wise , at long last making it possible for NSE to plan systematic replacement of old EMUs . |
| 2 | None the less , his fall from favour and loss of revenue farms and offices under the restored Commonwealth of 1659 may have been what stood him in best stead in the following year , rather than secret payments to the Royalist cause before May 1660 , for which there is no evidence beyond inference . |
| 3 | The ‘ he ’ born in 1850 must have been Herbert 's Pa , not Grandpa . |
| 4 | The years immediately following 725/6 must have been a crucial period in the establishment of Aethelbald of Mercia 's domination of southern England . |
| 5 | It seems extraordinary to today 's parents in England and the United States that women of the twenties and thirties should have been prepared to accept either the content of these pronouncements or the authoritarian tone in which they were made ; yet accepted they were , in that innumerable women made valiant efforts to stifle their natural desire to cuddle their babies and to feed them when they were hungry , or were wracked with guilt and shame when they ‘ mawkishly ’ rocked the child or sentimentally eased his stomach pangs in the small hours with a contraband couple of ounces . |
| 6 | Part 2 may have been concerned with the kinetics of the reactions between hydrogen isotopes under the conditions attainable . |
| 7 | Clearly the cloth figures fluctuate more markedly than those for wool , although those for 1474–75 may have been artifically depressed by the absence of returns from Bristol and Newcastle . |
| 8 | Find the following sets of answers : unc Your answer to question 2 should have been ( 7,8,9,10 … |
| 9 | She had told Great-gran and now she stood looking down on this eighty-two year old woman who was dressed as a woman of forty might have been , in a pale blue cotton dress , square-necked , which showed surprisingly firm flesh for one her age , short-sleeved , which in this case exposed her real age by the sagging flesh of the underarm . |
| 10 | Let us imagine how uninspiring Shakespeare 's Henry V would have been , had he proclaimed that ’ gentlemen of the east Midlands , now-abed shall think themselves accurs 'd they were not here ’ . |
| 11 | As the solar luminosity rose some of this CO 2 would have been liberated , but it can be shown to be unlikely that sufficient CO 2 would be liberated to yield present conditions . |
| 12 | Sommer and Zeger have estimated that if full compliance had been achieved in the Aceh study the reduction in mortality in months 4 to 12 would have been 72% rather than the 41% given by the intention to treat analysis . |
| 13 | By the end of next year , about 800 will have been accredited , covering 80 per cent . |
| 14 | Most readers of this book aged over 30 will have been taught at school that the atom is made up of little billiard balls : in the centre there is the nucleus , made of biggish billiard balls called protons and neutrons ; around the nucleus travel very small billiard balls called electrons . |
| 15 | A more commonly cited figure , however , was of total casualties of 100,000 , of whom up to 35,000 might have been killed . |
| 16 | The American Communist Party at its peak in the Thirties might have been 100,000 strong and dominated several labour unions . |
| 17 | The enthusiasm for canal stock in the 1790s may have been the greater because the yield on Consols had not been very gratifying between 1784 and 1792 . |
| 18 | Deaths were put at 26 , with the advisory that six may have been the result of US fire . |
| 19 | A prime motive in the purchase of the Grand Union by the Grand Junction in 1894 may have been the improved water supply for the main system which it represented . |
| 20 | The original entries for 995 and 996 may have been lost , and it says nothing of the hostile relations which probably existed with Normandy for a time , and only hints at the troubles in the Irish Sea mentioned above . |
| 21 | Robert III may have been born in Dundonald Castle and it is certain that he spent much of his life there before he became king . |
| 22 | Previous popes had been in France , and the teaching of the school of St Victor in Paris and of Peter Abelard was known to them , but Innocent III may have been the first pope to have studied at the Paris schools . |
| 23 | They believe the reported profits for the first half of 1991 may have been materially overstated , and that further publication of these results as a basis of comparison may be misleading . |
| 24 | The cooling of the earth caused by the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 may have been " the largest global climate pertubation of the century , " according to American climatologist James Hansen . |
| 25 | In a recent interview with The Spectator Lord Denning , former Master of the Rolls — one of the highest judicial positions in England — commented that he felt the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six should have been hung because everyone would then have forgotten about them . |
| 26 | Ma McKeown said thirteen must 've been her lucky number because she never had no more after that one . |
| 27 | Well the men although they may not have realized they were thirteen must have been pretty stupid not to realize they were perhaps below consent age . |
| 28 | The result of the application to the Court of Appeal on 4 November 1991 might have been different if the true position had been known to that court . |
| 29 | Out of 700 cases that the PPL took to court last year , it is thought that as many as 100 could have been brought against hotels or restaurants . |
| 30 | At this level of causation the outcome with a different personality at No. 10 would have been different ; but is that historical reality ? |