Example sentences of "[adv] [modal v] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone , somewhere must have been concerned for and worried about these unfortunate children and found their absence odd ; surely too , someone must have paid their fare and seen them off on their journey . |
| 2 | Another woman , in a different firm , who had been twenty years in the trade ( so must have been one of the original beginners ) reported in similar terms : " in the regular bookwork , the girls do the same work as the men , but they do not lift their own " formes " and " chases " . |
| 3 | The potential benefits in facilities alone should have been obvious to all , he thinks . |
| 4 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 5 | Even so , Galileo had many topics on his mind and was not solely doing astronomical research , so that the priority of a month or so could have been true . |
| 6 | He was a gentle character , who perhaps would have been happier as the abbot of a Buddhist monastery . |
| 7 | A simple statement to explain why Charles was staying away so long would have been better than nothing . |
| 8 | There are no indications from Berry ( No. 2 ) that this was contemplated and considerable reason to think that any attempt to have done so would have been futile . |
| 9 | I suppose the milking machines coming in would have been another |
| 10 | Normally , to go out alone would have been unthinkable , but unoccupied men were thin on the ground now and invitations almost non-existent . |
| 11 | This alone would have been sufficient grounds for divorce as far as my Pop was concerned . |
| 12 | These factors alone would have been sufficient to convince advertisers that it was not the medium for the affluent ‘ never-had-it-so-good ’ Macmillan era . |
| 13 | Their needs alone would have been enough reason — were enough — for a number of us over the next three to four years to stay in a male organization , with largely male resources for mainly male callers and to join with some of those men to change it . |
| 14 | The Caucasus alone would have been enough to incline him to seek peace in external relations . |
| 15 | THE post-match critic who wondered if Hibs had come off the team bus moving backwards might have been guilty of allowing his cynicism to get the better of him , but there can be no-one at Easter Road this morning able to derive any satisfaction from the side 's performance at Ibrox . |
| 16 | He had to look into her eyes because he was so close to her that to look elsewhere would have been blatant rudeness . |
| 17 | But tonight would have been different . |
| 18 | The food these suburban Texans threw away would have been enough to feed the whole of Latin America . |
| 19 | His tie was muddy green with flowers which once must have been yellow . |
| 20 | He concludes ( which once would have been controversial ) that human beings do think — and even creatively . |
| 21 | None of these methods seemed at the time to have any relevance to therapeutics , and the scientists who developed them would have found it very difficult to persuade the distributors of funds for medical research to support them , but without them the practical advances which came later would have been impossible . |
| 22 | He does what he has to do in situations of moral dilemma , though he knows it to be wrong , because to act differently would have been wrong also though not in the same way . |
| 23 | The response probably would have been smoother because the effect of the 0/1 potency had been completed six weeks earlier . |
| 24 | She probably would n't have got any cover after that , she probably would have been uninsurable . |
| 25 | Probably would have been enough for them , but |
| 26 | I really must have been insane . |
| 27 | David Howell did not remember his time in Cabinet with much pleasure — ‘ some arguments just left such acrimony and ill-feeling that I ca n't believe they really could have been enjoyable … |
| 28 | For Dennis Awori , the chairman of the KENYA Rugby Union and one of the talented group of players to have put Kenyan rugby on the seven-a-side map , the inability of his side to concentrate and play consistently well must have been nerve-wrecking . |
| 29 | well must have been different neighbours to my day ! |
| 30 | But they the Prestige Sterling as it 's known over here could have been more successful . |