Example sentences of "thing [modal v] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things may have been different under another Minister , or under the same one in happier and healthier days , but it seems doubtful . |
| 2 | She made it sound as if the two things should have been similar . |
| 3 | You did not understand then and things might have been awkward . ’ |
| 4 | Had he not been turned down by a local industrial company , things might have been different . |
| 5 | If he 'd only told them he 'd just had a baby , things might have been different . |
| 6 | During the Pleistocene , however , things might have been different : as the ice sheets moved further south they brought tundra conditions to latitudes as far south as Spain , and the resulting climate and environment at these lower latitudes would have been unlike anything known today because of differences in rainfall and solar incidence . |
| 7 | Things might have been different if there had been more consultation with industry people across the board . |
| 8 | But things might have been different if Brian had landed the job of England manager . |
| 9 | Theorists who reflect about the ways in which things might have been different are bound to consider the question of what might have made events take another course . |
| 10 | To justify his view that there are ways in which things might have been different while at the same time avoiding voluntarism , Poulantzas argues that there are two sources of valid counterfactuals . |
| 11 | But though she had wished things might have been different , she consoled herself with the knowledge that it could come to nothing . |
| 12 | Emily went pink , reflecting that if she 'd had charge of this youth in his formative years , things might have been different . |
| 13 | Obscurely , she felt that if only she had known before things might have been different , but then common sense told her that yes , things might have been different : probably they would have been worse . |
| 14 | Obscurely , she felt that if only she had known before things might have been different , but then common sense told her that yes , things might have been different : probably they would have been worse . |
| 15 | Of course , it was a good toss to win and things might have been different if England had batted first . |
| 16 | She told herself that things could have been worse . |
| 17 | Ray Gasson 's barn was also set on fire , but things could have been worse . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're a good girl ; I do wish things could have been different . ’ |
| 19 | A Carolyn who led another life , with no more than the ghost of a thought that things could have been different . |
| 20 | Yeah I I think , had they given their side of the argument at the onset , then er things would 've been different . |
| 21 | Things would have been pleasanter if the weather had been more summery , but you ca n't have everything and in England one gets accustomed to wet and windy summers . |
| 22 | A number of Cabinet colleagues had doubts about all these policies and many would acknowledge that things would have been different without her . |
| 23 | Perhaps if she had , things would have been different , I do n't know . |
| 24 | ‘ If I 'd met you three years ago , ’ he told her harshly , ‘ maybe things would have been different . |
| 25 | Any one of those things would have been unusual in itself ; jointly , and in a humbler personage , it would have verged on the scandalous . |
| 26 | ‘ I am not Milanese , ’ he said , his tone implying that such a thing should have been obvious , even to an American . |
| 27 | It seems likely that once the board schools were well established for both sexes , by the 1880s , the same thing will have been true of girls . |