Example sentences of "[det] [modal v] have been true " in BNC.
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| 1 | That may have been true , but for the moment it 's irrelevant . ’ |
| 2 | A few years ago that may have been true , but over the past couple of years , we have reduced the commission charge by 10–20 per cent . |
| 3 | That may have been true until the current recession , but the hon. Gentleman is entirely wrong about the present circumstances . |
| 4 | says Clare about his native Helpston in the years after its enclosure , and that must have been true of most parishes that underwent the great transformation . |
| 5 | This may have been true of strict Evangelicals , particularly the Calvinists , the dissenting groups such as the Plymouth Brethren , but in the population of the cities where churchgoing had fallen steeply , fire and brimstone were losing their power to terrify . |
| 6 | This may have been true at one time , when the vast majority of commuters were middle-class , but it does not apply in the postwar period when large numbers of commuters have been ‘ reluctant ’ villagers , constrained by the availability of cheap housing to living in the countryside ( Pahl 1965b ) . |
| 7 | This may have been true also of part at least of Surrey and conceivably part at least of the kingdom of the East Saxons . |
| 8 | In a limited sense and for a fortunate few who were related to the adult mule spinners with whom they worked , this may have been true . |
| 9 | It is hardly likely that this could have been true of the greatest of them , Whittington , because his father had died with his estate encumbered by an outlawry incurred in a plea of debt . |
| 10 | The former rather than the latter could have been true of Brihtheah of Worcester , whose family was that of Archbishop Wulfstan of York and Worcester , but whose kins-men lived in Berkshire , while if Symeon of Durham 's account of the election of Bishop Edmund is correct , Cnut simply confirmed a choice made in Durham . |