Example sentences of "we [modal v] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may have been poor and ignorant in Glasgow but ratting on our friends was something we left to the narks , the narks and the prosperous classes . |
| 2 | Because it , in a job that ca n't be done in isolation , to complete this procedure or procedures , we may have been plural , needs er , consultation with er , certainly with Simon 's division in quite a substantial way . |
| 3 | If only there had been some worked examples , we may have been able to follow the article . |
| 4 | We may have been able to buy our departmental systems from a single vendor . |
| 5 | So whereas in the past we may have been able to think of single user types and single solutions to meet those users . |
| 6 | And whereas with departmental approach we may have been satisfied with the ability to do extracts down from our corporate mainframe systems in the enterprise approach we 'll look for proper and full integration of the mainframe as an integral part of the environment . |
| 7 | ‘ But surely we ought to have been able to find some sort of compromise … ’ |
| 8 | The G M B's got a long record of joining forces with others which has proved to be successful , but if we 're gon na be honest , it 's always been recognized that we would be the predominant union and yes Apex members we should have been honest with you at the time of merger , because it 's quite clear you was gon na lose your identity to at least to some extent and we should have been honest about that . |
| 9 | The G M B's got a long record of joining forces with others which has proved to be successful , but if we 're gon na be honest , it 's always been recognized that we would be the predominant union and yes Apex members we should have been honest with you at the time of merger , because it 's quite clear you was gon na lose your identity to at least to some extent and we should have been honest about that . |
| 10 | around about it , like whether we liked it or not , whether he was , it was a good thing to have had it , we should have been better not to have had it with the situation at the time , you know , that kind of mulling over might be |
| 11 | But either way we should have been consistent and we apologise for confusing at least one of you . |
| 12 | We should have been able to move more quickly . ’ |
| 13 | But I 'd 've thought that , that generally speaking , we should have been able to at least hold the line . |
| 14 | I think that we should have been safe on the track until they got others to come with them . |
| 15 | Over the previous twenty years we had become preoccupied with structural arguments about regions and areas when we should have been concerned about how the service was run . |
| 16 | We must have been closer friends than I recall , for as I go through my library 40 years later , I find quite a number of splendid books inscribed ‘ in friendship ’ from Andrew in his scrawling hand , including Henrik van Loon 's ‘ Book of Lives ’ , ‘ One Men 's Meat ’ by E.B. White , ‘ Women in Love ’ by D.H . |
| 17 | We must have been poor or deliberately austere , but I was not told … |
| 18 | We made love again , and we must have been tired , because it ca n't have been less than two hours later that I woke up . |
| 19 | There is a general passivity , a loss of good conscience — ‘ they must have been doing something very wrong there ’ ; ‘ we must have been wrong ’ ; ‘ I suppose these new ideas must be right ’ ; ‘ I suppose we have got to get used to them ’ , etcetera , etcetera . |
| 20 | When the hon. Member for Newham , North-East and I were buying one or two shirts in Sri Lanka , we must have been conscious that we were supporting the industry of the developing world , and rightly so . |
| 21 | Our lives are miserable as we remember times when we might have been kinder , we might have been more loving , less impatient . |
| 22 | Above all we can not ignore it : whereas at one time we might have been able to smile at the perversity of the local watch committee in another town , the collective action of several dozen politically motivated local authorities to ban News International publications effectively took censorship in libraries well beyond the silly season in the Press ; and whereas we could once afford to hang back with our copies of Fanny Hill secure in the knowledge that we would be nowhere near the top of the prosecution list , Section 28 is in place and ready to pick us off should we try to share our enthusiasm for homosexual literature with more than a few of our consenting adult users . |
| 23 | I 'm crying as I write this because we might have been able to save her . |
| 24 | If only the photographers had n't been there , we might have been able to hush it up . ’ |
| 25 | The way in which some of the subsidies work is ludicrous , but had we been there at the beginning , we might have been able to reform it so that it could work to our advantage . |
| 26 | We might have been able to put more into housing this year , but we had to put £50 million out of the block into local authority spending . |
| 27 | Hateley , who virtually single-handedly beat Leeds in the last round , said : ‘ We could have been 4–0 down . |
| 28 | I mean we could have been worse , could have forgotten completely . |
| 29 | ‘ But we could have been 12 or 13% up had it not been for the bomb scares , ’ said John Monk . |
| 30 | We could have been 20 points up in the opening 10 minutes , but they had the pace and the organisation to shut us out . |