Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [adv] [det] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It should have been downhill all the way for retired Shetland Pony Selwyn , instead it turned out to be downbeat . |
| 2 | should have been here this morning |
| 3 | That you should have been there all the while and me not know it all this time ! |
| 4 | The map gives some prominence to Lincoln and also names Lindsey ( meaning either the later Lindsey or possibly the county of Lincoln ) , and the map 's patron must have been just such a well-educated man with Lincolnshire connections as Richard de Bello , who was an MA . |
| 5 | She said well it must have been just those two little bits . |
| 6 | Must have been about half past nine . |
| 7 | She reckoned there must have been as many as four hundred of them . |
| 8 | The extra pound a day for their film work did little to compensate for their tiredness which surely must have been as much due to under-nourishment as overwork . |
| 9 | ‘ I should like that very much , but you must have been there many times before . ’ |
| 10 | It must have been there all the time , sitting motionless and staring straight at me from the far edge of the level area of the Grounds , but I had n't noticed it at first . |
| 11 | Emily must have been there some time . |
| 12 | But as Brown Owl pinned my Promise Badge on me , and said , ‘ I trust you to keep the Promise ’ , the excitement must have been too much for Natalie ! |
| 13 | It must have been too much heat or … something . ’ |
| 14 | Once it must have been very much on its own , but now there are modern houses within spitting distance . |
| 15 | Most railways printed a range of tickets for servants entitled ‘ to privilege third class travel ’ , which had quite heavy usage , but servants in higher grades without ‘ All Stations ’ passes and entitled to First Class travel must have been very few . |
| 16 | Well at least he 'll have been here this weekend to find |
| 17 | ‘ an ungainly , awkward-looking man , extremely short-sighted and prematurely bald ’ who was ‘ perhaps about thirty , but … might have been almost any age between sixteen and sixty : being one of those strange creatures who never decline into ancient appearance , but look their oldest when they are very young , and get over it at once ’ . |
| 18 | All that good food might have been too much of an assault on his stomach . |
| 19 | The strain of prolonged interviews might have been too much for her . ’ |
| 20 | The young man — perhaps not quite so young after all , he might have been as much as thirty — came forward into the room , closing the door behind him . |
| 21 | However , Lithuania are n't going to be as dangerous as they might have been as several of their top stars did n't make the trip . |
| 22 | well I 've given many , many different answers here , I could have been here all day , giving you just between point five and point six , and you 'd have been giving one as the answer every time . |
| 23 | I felt that there could have been slightly more involvement with the police at this point , as it would have been quite interesting to hear their views on this problem . |
| 24 | Could have been just nothing-some little schoolboy sin . |
| 25 | Dr. Favor was older than she was , at least fifteen years older , which put her about thirty , and he could have been just another man sitting there . |
| 26 | The ‘ next step ’ of setting up a public authority-the Commissioner for the Rights of Trade Union Members-to assist actively in enforcing such individual rights could have been too much to swallow for the unions . |
| 27 | It could have been there all the time . |
| 28 | And could have been once all a con . |
| 29 | As instability of h is extremely common , it is remarkable that careful scholars could have been so much aware of this type of evidence , but could nevertheless have rejected it . |
| 30 | There could have been so much important material in what has been called " The Domesday Book of the Highlands and Islands . " |