Example sentences of "[subord] it [modal v] have " in BNC.

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1 We were sad because he could not come to my room and I could not go to his home , where it would have been difficult to explain our relationship .
2 Mind you , this is not quite as unsatisfactory as the ‘ Piano Quartet ’ set where it would have been just possible to confine Op. 26 and Op. 60 to the second disc , rather than breaking after the magical slow movement of the earlier of these two works .
3 The cenotaph provides a fitting frontispiece to the chapel and here the memorial garden , cared for by members of the Keyingham Royal British Legion , now houses the remains of the ancient village cross , moved from its site a few yards away where it would have caused an obstruction to modern traffic flow .
4 As a result , there is also concern that the provisions of the Act are failing to provide adequate safeguards against excessive caution on the part of some magistrates who may be tempted to refuse bail even where it would have been safe and proper to grant it .
5 There was still a dark blob , where it might have hit the wall .
6 Apart from these texts there are a few which are revealing for the opposite reason : they deny the existence of a trust where it might have been expected .
7 The reconceptualisation which feminism is attempting has a direct and vital bearing on central philosophical issues , not only in political philosophy where it might have been expected , but also in epistemology , ontology , philosophy of mind , and ethics .
8 To Cnut and some of his contemporaries this world still mattered , and evidence of this has been found where it might have been least expected .
9 Among other things , Christopher said Western assistance must be better co-ordinated and targeted where it can have the greatest impact .
10 It is true that we are more enlightened than we were ; there is a public which has learnt to smile at the reviewer who declares that a line ‘ will not scan ’ , or that it contains a ‘ trochee ’ where it should have had an ‘ iamb ’ , without considering whether it was ever intended to ‘ scan ’ , or whether there is anything in English verse which can be treated as the absolute equivalent of a Greek or Latin trochee .
11 Where it should have tried harder , however , is with taming mechanical noise levels .
12 God/dess has no interest in our begging for forgiveness , bearing crosses and praying to be allowed into heaven , but is urging us to dance , to celebrate , to love — to create a heaven on earth , where it should have been all along .
13 He was twenty — well this June — and he still had n't walked out with a girlfriend , and yet his mother was moving in very exalted circles , where it should have been possible for him to meet the pick of the debutantes .
14 Fast free kicks are ok ( as along as the ball is stopped I think ) what was very illegal was the fact that the free kick was taken from a COMPLETELY different spot to where the foul took place , so the Leeds player were ( justifiably ) waiting for the ball to be placed where it should have been .
15 No sign and he could n't puzzle out where it could have gone .
16 In considering the possible effects of soot on global climate , the models suggest that since the soot did not reach the stratosphere ( around 14–15 km in this region ) , where it could have remained for several years , the fires were unlikely to have caused significant global climate effects .
17 Similarly , at the other end of the belt , Chalk was later discovered in south-west Ireland ( where it must have been noticed by the early surveyors , but they had evidently been too scared of their autocratic director to record such an unlikely phenomenon ) .
18 Analysis of Brian 's nursing history does not show a structured approach of this nature ; such support was provided as the need for it was noticed by individual staff members , which is theoretically unsatisfying , although it may have worked in practice .
19 I think they were all impressed , although it may have been at the thought of Gran going camping !
20 Although it may have mishandled some details , such as last week 's round of Arab-Israeli talks ( see page 65 ) , its big decisions — to bring its troops swiftly home , to maintain the siege around Iraq , to establish a haven for Iraqi Kurds and to push Israel and the Arabs into long-overdue negotiation — have mostly been right .
21 On the other hand , GH5 is a eukaryotic protein that binds as a monomer , is not sequence-specific ( although it may have sequence preferences ) , and the structure of the DNA on binding to GH5 is unknown .
22 What is less widely known is that at this moment two P-38 Lightnings , ( distinctive , long-range US fighters ) appeared , their star insignia clearly visible , and although it may have been coincidence even to the sophisticated in a crowd of some hundreds of thousands it must indeed have appeared that the mandate of heaven had assumed its newest form .
23 Although it may have also been one of the last , desperate attempts to keep the road open to a negotiated settlement , Ho was being accused by the French , who compared the diplomatic assurances in Paris with continuing violence in Vietnam , of duplicity ; and , ominously , by the intransigents in Hanoi , of treachery .
24 Again , however , one wonders how far this was mere rhetoric in the original or mere gesture in the repetition ; although it may have some influence on the ‘ mission statements ’ that some institutions are now struggling to formulate .
25 Record 4 has no shared descriptors with the other three records , although it may have with later records .
26 In consolidating data from several areas it has been proposed that a rapid rise of sea level occurred in the early Holocene but that in the last 6000 years the rate has been far less , although it may have diminished progressively , it may have risen to c .
27 The professional debate needs to take place on different ground and the professional service , although it may have buildings among its outputs , will have to have deep human and social insights among its inputs .
28 Britain finally became cut off from the Continent at the Straits of Dover around 6500 BC , although it may have been somewhat later between East Anglia and northern Europe via the Dogger Bank .
29 The definition of price stickiness which we shall employ in this section does not in fact alter very much the policy implications of the model developed in the previous chapter , although it may have implications for the test of that model .
30 Also , cooling can produce spectral shifts in emission wavelength , so although it may have potential uses for geological applications where CL emission at room temperature is meagre , the full effects of cooling are at present poorly known and the technique can not be recommended as a regular practice for petrographic purposes .
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