Example sentences of "it [modal v] have [be] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it was on that Sunday , but it may have been on the Sunday before , that I gave the last message from the Burma Broadcasting Service . |
| 2 | The only lasting effect it may have is on the careers of some of the people involved . |
| 3 | It should have been on her money but William was on a full grant at university . |
| 4 | The boat was just as it should have been on the night of the murder and had not been . |
| 5 | Laurin concluded that the Tetraceratops , as a species , lay between the pelycosaurs and therapsids , and that it must have been on the way to becoming a mammal . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | If ever Joseph felt King of Spain it must have been on his triumphal progress in Andalusia . |
| 8 | It would not come although it must have been on the same day as the trip to the cathedral and her aunt had undoubtedly been with her . |
| 9 | It must have been on a main line , because there were two sets of tracks , and the mouth of the tunnel had seemed to him — he might have been five , six ? — bigger than anything he had ever seen , bigger than anything he had known could exist . |
| 10 | Shoes , it must have been on your shoes . |
| 11 | It might have been on the table , obscured by this banner . |
| 12 | It might have been on the Saturday . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But it could have been on my knees . |
| 15 | But the dollar 's weight , 21.9% , was double what it would have been on a purely trade-weighted basis , so its slide between 1985 and 1990 dragged the krona down against ERM currencies . |
| 16 | After all , if those two boys had died , it would have been on our consciences that we saw them get into difficulty and did nothing . |
| 17 | Schwartzman and Volk reckon that weathering was helped along to such an extent that the Earth is 35°C cooler than it would have been on the lifeless Earth . |
| 18 | Some of it I ca n't disclose , some of it would have been on the lines of : ‘ Make sure you do this or that ’ . |
| 19 | I wonder if he hit the floor … if he did it would have been on his head . |