Example sentences of "[indef pn] [modal v] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokesman said : ‘ Someone must have been stunned and be on a massive spending spree at the moment . |
| 2 | The court held that this did not show an absence of negligence since someone must have been careless in not following the proper system . |
| 3 | someone must have been hungry , or you must like it |
| 4 | She says it was an old building and someone could have been stuck on an upper floor . |
| 5 | It was , he said , ‘ the most complex foreign policy I have ever beheld ’ ; and if the impossible quickly went embarrassingly wrong , nobody should have been surprised . |
| 6 | " Nobody could have been kinder . " |
| 7 | ‘ Nobody would have been able to stop you , ’ said Rose . |
| 8 | Without engaging in processes such as these , nobody would have been able to create the procedures and systems mentioned above in the first place . |
| 9 | Nothing could have been worse for us than the children having to suffer and , thankfully , so far they have not had to . |
| 10 | Actually , nothing could have been further from the truth . |
| 11 | I thought I would have plenty of other opportunities but nothing could have been further from the truth . |
| 12 | She had not meant Anthony and Comfort to hear , but something must have been audible . |
| 13 | so something erm I mean it , it just seems strange to me that , you know , something which has exist existed for thousands of years , you know , he 's suddenly sort of pooh-poohing so to speak , erm and I mean obviously the fact that there was a revolution twenty years later or whatever erm me means that something must have been wrong but erm you know i it 's strange how he 's suddenly criticizing and how the criticism has n't come before , how nothing 's happened before , how this seems an opportune moment for it to happen . |
| 14 | I did not use a tape recorder for these interviews , though one might have been helpful in some ways , though perhaps inhibiting to my informants in other ways . |
| 15 | However she did seem to get better , and no one could have been happier than my master , when he saw her sitting up in bed for the first time , and beginning to take an interest in the people and things around her . |
| 16 | Elizabeth reacted to Greece as one would have been sure that she would — her love of flowers , of landscape and of the sea could still then be satisfied . |
| 17 | A mixed one would have been unacceptable to both the women and their families . |
| 18 | The point , however , is that to build a house that stands up requires a knowledge of where every bit goes and what it does — and that knowledge is an order of magnitude and greater than one would have been able to guess at . |
| 19 | The first claim insists that once a crisp decision has been made by a body sanctioned by convention , and the content of that decision is fixed by conventions about how such decisions should be understood , judges must respect that decision , even if they think a different one would have been fairer or wiser . |
| 20 | Einstein 's comment was , one would have been enough and as usual of course , Einstein was right . |
| 21 | And then everything would have been different . |
| 22 | For had the causal factor not been present , everything would have been different . |
| 23 | There was a blank look on his face for a second and then he went on , ‘ Well , everything would have been different … everything . |
| 24 | And everything would have been fine , except of course nature took its course and I could no longer pretend that I was n't pregnant . |
| 25 | Would she and Stephen be sitting just as they were now and be suddenly unable to remember anything that had happened because nothing would have been real ? |
| 26 | The first morning we spent weaving with every other needle , laying the wool across by hand ! this put me off right away , because we were using punchcard machines , so nothing would have been easier than to slip in Card 1 and go ahead with our weaving without any trouble . |
| 27 | Then no-one would have been satisfied , let alone the person who is the victim in all this . |
| 28 | Well yes you , you , you 've got two , one is you 've got erm the rural poor who will provide a labour force in the countryside for rich peasants and you 've , because you have got a labour market and because there are no limits on mobility , then presumably there will be some poor peasants who will decide no I 'll get out , I 'll industry 's going to get going , I will be able to earn more money in a town , or sons would go off and , and so , so there should be , you should provide a , have a supply of labour , whereas if you 've got everybody , if everybody had been in middle peasant status erm there would have been no incentive to do that because everybody would have been self sufficient within the countryside . |
| 29 | Apart from anything else , it is unlikely that anyone would have been able to develop the various forms of ‘ magic ’ that allow my word-processor to work . |
| 30 | ‘ Angie had nothing to complain about — anyone would have been glad to put up £100,000 to get in here . |