Example sentences of "that [modal v] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | all that money that they keep demanding from the er th wa th wa the firms and such like that ought to have been ploughed back into the firm ! |
| 2 | I only ask because I have had educational advantages , courtesy both of Cambridge and the fresh , clean-limbed members of Her Majesty 's prison service , that may have been denied to readers who , while possessed of many excellent and succulently moist personal characteristics are , perforce , less verbally erudite than moi . |
| 3 | The failure of the continuation school movement shows that the class position of the prospective pupils , rather than any age relationship , determined that the significance of their labour power was more important than their further education , however that may have been defined . |
| 4 | I think that may have been construed as impolite , so I smiled and replied that , yes indeed it was still a bit to go before the top , and wow , certainly it was proving mighty tough . |
| 5 | The report stated that a study had been made of an incinerator at Bonnybridge in Scotland that suggested an increased level of twinning in cattle , and possibly in humans , that may have been linked with the emission of PCHs and other substances from the plant . |
| 6 | Fancy building , I mean that must have been done when , when the house was built . |
| 7 | Many programmers realized that they had been programming things that should never have been taught at all , or that should have been taught by some other method or combination of methods . |
| 8 | That should have been arranged before . |
| 9 | Of course that should have been altered when inflation became serious , but it was n't . |
| 10 | It is sad , and somewhat ominous , that so little of that should have been reflected in the sombre statement which Mr Parkinson made in the House yesterday .. |
| 11 | That might have been written a week ago following the extraordinary dispute over a young girl 's ear . |
| 12 | That might have been thought to be intune with the Cold War music of the era . |
| 13 | That could have been achieved by an international conference in which both sides ( and Bulgaria , which also has an interest ) would have been asked to swear their respect for existing frontiers . |
| 14 | For example , only three funds — Newton Income , Touche Remnant City of London and Britannia Life American Growth — achieved higher returns over five years than the £162 that could have been obtained without risk by placing £100 in the building society . |
| 15 | That could have been done anyway if the disposition were in a will , but it may well be that it is in a codicil or other document to which the nuncupatio did not apply . |
| 16 | ‘ Lord Justice Bingham concluded that perhaps that could have been done more fully , but a careful reading of the report discloses that on several occasions that is precisely what Price Waterhouse did . ’ |
| 17 | I mean we did see some strange tracks and we did find this sheep which had been completely gutted , but apparently that could have been done by a snow leopard . |
| 18 | I 've already explained how I think that could have been done . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I know it 's hard to accept , Dawn , but all that could have been done has been done . |
| 20 | Well that could have been done tomorrow ! |
| 21 | That , that could have been , that could have been cut down . |
| 22 | But that could have been predicted . |
| 23 | It will not be easy for him to justify dismissing you because of any lack of capability on your part where that could have been anticipated when you were originally offered the job . |
| 24 | ‘ That could have been put more tactfully , could n't it ? |
| 25 | I saw that there were a few patches of shadow around me that could have been crammed with evil doers . |
| 26 | Information on that could have been supplied as part of the information on the accountability of the service . |
| 27 | In few periods in early Ottoman history can that need have been felt more strongly than in the years following Ankara . |
| 28 | ‘ I suppose that would have been regarded as subversive by some governments in the bad old days , ’ he said . |
| 29 | It was not made public because that would have been to give warning to the culprit . ’ |
| 30 | Of course , much of that would have been done in his lectures , to which the anti-Aristotelian Exercises are an appendix . |