Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [been] [adv] in " in BNC.

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1 Herluin saw him , and uttered a wordless cry , rather of vexation than surprise or alarm , for by this time the steward should have been home in Ramsey , all his booty safely delivered .
2 The knowledge that someone , somewhere in Government circles , had known that what he 'd seen and experienced had really happened , should have been enough in itself to send Jimmy into a righteous rage .
3 The invitation must have been largely in terms of a general specification involving basic designs and performance , for the prices varied greatly , depending on the type of hauling gear and the amount of sophistication of the secondary equipment .
4 And erm I think I was in the middle somewhere , I was n't er brilliant but I must have been somewhere in the middle I suppose .
5 Occasionally it is explained that they had already died — and given the still short life-expectancy of the period this must have been so in many cases .
6 There were some irreverent proposals to perform the ultimate experiment and try injecting material extracted from Ungar 's brain into his critics — a human trial that I suspect Ungar himself might have been rather in favour of !
7 That might have been so in this nation , but it was not the case throughout the empire .
8 Perhaps the Thunderbird 's one-sided peghead might have been more in keeping with Gibson 's bold step into the next century .
9 Well this is erm as I say we , we , we could 've been somewhere in the region of two hundred and fifty thousand just on the I T issues alone .
10 You can imagine the eager anticipation I felt when following the death of our much loved 16 year old dog , I saw an advertisement quoting ‘ Basset Hounds For Sale ’ and the contact , which could have been anywhere in the UK , was only a few miles away .
11 This was Elm Road , a street in Walton , but it could have been anywhere in Liverpool or Bootle .
12 Nothing could have been less in keeping with the architect 's original intentions .
13 Aye you 'd have been there in thirty nine .
14 ‘ I doubt it may have been somewhere in a circle of exiles , plucking that familiar of yours . ’
15 But it would be a superficial reading of club ideology to view the movement simply in terms of its ‘ rescue ’ work , for though this may have been so in the early days , it was never the sole aim which would imply a passivity hardly reconcilable with the ambitions of the founders of clubs , or with that of the missions and settlement houses .
16 Most may have been there in the pre-Norman period , although whether as fully developed villages or not will be discussed below .
17 He is one of the two architects ever to have held this position twice , but this may have been more in recognition of his wealth and status as an MP , and for his interest in the organization of the profession , than for his abilities as an architect .
18 For one thing , the victuallers were never able to secure a majority on the council , and for another , a substantial number of the men in the victualling guilds had other interest — grocers and fishmongers were among the most important wool exporters at this period and one does not know how far individuals actually practised the trade of their own guild — so it may have been less in their interest than has sometimes been thought to keep food prices high ( 84 , pp.251–3 ; 104 , pp.77–80 ; 109 ) .
19 Erm but the reality is that erm we would therefore need our budget to , in fact for the first half of this year , to have , well for the whole year , to have reflected the late delivery of the systems which would 've , if we 'd had that in the budget and we 'd been projecting the whole budget at say two point six , our budget figure would 've been somewhere in the region of another eighty to ninety thousand higher than it currently is for this first quarter .
20 At Ruislip , he would have been nominally in a grade one lower than in his Hendon post and would have not been able to exercise his abilities as a mechanic .
21 ‘ Parts of the old Norman church still remain , ’ Esme explains , ‘ so would have been here in Cadfael 's day The church features in Sanctuary Sparrow and again in Eye Witness , where the blind old Welshman , Rhodri Fychan , begs by the west door .
22 Although the first half had been surprisingly passionless , it was Liverpool who were easily the better side , and had Ronnie Rosenthal seized three opportunities , they would have been comfortably in front by half time .
23 IF some of the jurors had suffered from rheumatoid arthritis , as I have done for 33 years , the verdict would have been emphatically in favour of Dr Cox .
24 Half a century ago it would have been so in fact .
25 It was gentle , with none of the strident accent which would have been more in keeping with the circumstances .
26 It would have been more in keeping with his mood if yesterday 's rain had persisted .
27 If it had been pouring with rain the walk would have been cancelled , and that would have been more in keeping with Lucy 's mood , which was one of deep depression .
28 The Labour government 's priority from 1964 onwards was the servicing of the economy in response to demands made on them by capital ; in so far as working-class girls could have contributed to this , it would have been only in those unskilled jobs for which greater or better education was not required .
29 In the light of this fact it seems possible to suggest that those authors who subscribe to the former view do so because in later times it would have been only in the rarest of circumstances that one would have held the kadilik after the kazaskerlik .
30 I do n't know if it would have been there in Flaubert 's day .
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