Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [pers pn] [modal v] have be " in BNC.

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1 His view finds support in the memoirs of Iakov Solov'ev , one of the major participants in the process of reform , who asserted that " Only the will of the autocrat could have sustained the numerically small and socially ill placed progressive party , which without it could have been destroyed " .
2 Without the traffic-free tranquillity of the town centre , none of them would have been noticeable .
3 There were fewer than seven under-strength German divisions in Yugoslavia , none of them would have been suitable for service in France or North Italy , as has been maintained .
4 I knew perfectly well that if ever that crowd got hold of them none of them would have been left to tell the tale and took immediate steps for them to escape by the windows at the rear of the premises .
5 None of them could have been happy at that time .
6 But none of it would have been possible without Cecil 's political influence and contacts , as well as his official revenue .
7 He kept talking about wanting to put things on to a sound financial footing , in which case none of us would have been able to afford to live in the club .
8 Which would have been very attractive , unobtrusive and none of us would have been against it , and when they came to put in the application to convert it , making it a meter wider and turn that into an extra bedroom or whatever was , we said that there was no parking , and we said what would happen and East Devon went ahead and approved that , and exactly in everything we 've said which was recorded in this council
9 Each one of them could have been double-bogeys or worse !
10 If you are thinking about it talking person to person remember the guy on the building site remember the woman who 's pregnant and trying to sell insurance and getting him to he should have been securing his family welfare and so on .
11 Not anything like it would have been if Uncle Bill had left it to me in the first place , because it will pay duty twice . ’
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