Example sentences of "[modal v] have been on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had visited the place in 1937 and it must have been on this occasion that he took photographs of the village and of St Michael 's Church there ( where later his ashes were to be interred ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Could have been on that boardwalk thing that we spoke about just across the road . |
| 5 | Could have been on that . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Oh , very very big , he explained and stepped away from the end of the table to indicate with his hand where the tail would have been on this particular specimen . |