Example sentences of "[modal v] have been [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It must have been in these years that Henry II and Eleanor became increasingly estranged . |
| 32 | Said it 'll have been in all day . |
| 33 | The Ministry did tell us not to waste effort growing flowers , but somehow one always felt they were not quite as right as they might have been on that one . |
| 34 | Bernard , harder on his own son than he might have been on any other twenty-three-year-old in the company was not keen , telling him he had no business experience . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Oh that 's er , I would say about nineteen forty roughly I 'd say about nineteen forty that came in , might have been before that . |
| 37 | The end result might only be a slight scratch , but the potential might have been in that situation for something a lot worse . |
| 38 | Ours went , I think , to 2 , 5 and 7 ; the other floors might have been in another building , or another town . |
| 39 | It seemed that not only the president , but the whole country , might have been in some delightful lotus-sleep for the past few years . |
| 40 | The tightly packed schiltrons might have been in some danger if the enemy 's Welsh archers had been used at once ; but Edward or his advisers thought they could settle things swiftly by an all-out cavalry charge . |
| 41 | I can honestly say I ca n't remember a show I definitely did n't like doing , although I might have been in some that did n't turn out as I though they would . ’ |
| 42 | They might have been like this for three centuries , and could be for three centuries more . |
| 43 | Wallace came on shortly before time and showed what could have been with some fast ground-oriented attacking . |
| 44 | For a while , she thought she could have been at any moderately boring Christmas party . |
| 45 | The clouds could have been at any height from fifty feet to six miles . |
| 46 | Could have been on that boardwalk thing that we spoke about just across the road . |
| 47 | Could have been on that . |
| 48 | She became aware at an early stage that there was an entirely different way of life available not far outside Baldersdale , perhaps more appealing to her , but it could have been on another planet . |
| 49 | There was no one else in the hotel who could have been of any possible interest to the assassins . ’ |
| 50 | This book is useful but could have been of more value if it had been more clearly grounded in practice . |
| 51 | How many people could have been under such a constant strain , for so long ? |
| 52 | He could have been behind any of the closed doors . |
| 53 | She had said it was her niece because the girl was young and had black hair and because who else but Nora Fanshawe could have been in that car with her parents ? |
| 54 | I do n't think that chair could have been in that book Brian . |
| 55 | They were n't twins , but they could have been in some respects , she realised . |
| 56 | Arsenic was a common substance and could have been in some of the remedies Mrs Armstrong took . |
| 57 | At the time of the lobby revolt , ‘ No one could have been in any doubt that if they went over to [ the rebel papers ' ] side , they would cook their goose with Number Ten . ’ |
| 58 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |
| 59 | There was a small desk , a lined pad , a tea mug holding a pencil and two pens , a stack of train and airline schedules , and a few pieces of personal clutter that could have been in any room in the house . |
| 60 | Tamsin , being half and half , could have been in any of them . |