Example sentences of "it [vb mod] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ So you could n't go as far as saying who it might have been calling on the Rector at that late hour ? ’ |
| 32 | Which is why you find extraordinary things like a Russian peregrine falcon turning up in North Cornwall , when it might have been planning to spend the winter in the Tropics . |
| 33 | It might have been carrying Sergei 's lifeless body : so thin a line divides the dead and the living . |
| 34 | she 's it could 've been saying |
| 35 | It could have been leaking for months . |
| 36 | It would have been expecting too much to imagine that the once-mighty ‘ Hitler myth ’ might disappear overnight in 1945 , disintegrating along with the mortal remains of the Führer himself and being scattered with the ashes of the Third Reich . |
| 37 | It would have been puzzling had Anthony Quayle not been disturbed . |
| 38 | If it had a face , it would have been sneering . |
| 39 | But by the time you were born I could n't give up Other world ; I was deep in the battle we wage here against the powers of the dark , and to leave it would have been deserting . |
| 40 | She certainly did n't want his sympathy ; in all probability she could n't even have coped with it — but still , it would have been reassuring to detect some trace of humanity in the man . |
| 41 | The Review Panel would have had to try to persuade the court that complying with FRED 1 failed to give a true and fair view , and it would have been presenting this argument at the same time that companies generally were being compelled to comply with FRS 3 ( a not fundamentally revised version of FRED 1 ) in order to give a true and fair view . |
| 42 | Indeed , one author could have submitted more than one strategy ( although it would have been cheating — and Axelrod would presumably not have allowed it — for an author to ‘ pack ’ the competition with strategies , one of which received the benefits of sacrificial cooperation from the others ) . |
| 43 | At least , if there had been any dust it would have been sweeping it . |
| 44 | Apart from the health risk , it would have been disturbing for them to see the damage . |
| 45 | Apart from the health risk , it would have been disturbing for them to see the damage . |