Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb mod] have been at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The adoption , for instance , of Darwinian views of evolution depended not simply on the intellectual breakthrough of a brilliant mind but on the conjuncture of social movements that made these propositions more acceptable then than they might have been at other periods . |
| 2 | I think they were all impressed , although it may have been at the thought of Gran going camping ! |
| 3 | ‘ Though we knew by the place where he had fallen that it must have been at the very summit just as the path runs down the cliff to Kinghorn Manor . ’ |
| 4 | I think ( I can not remember the number ) that it must have been at least 20 lashes he received and I felt every one of them . |
| 5 | It was about a week after my showdown with Quigley and I should have been at Harvest Festival . |
| 6 | Saturday afternoon , I ought to have been at home it was three o'clock and I should have been at er , in Leicester then . |
| 7 | I if I 'd have been at Jacksons I , I 'd have gone back today . |
| 8 | And they would have been at that muckle supper . |
| 9 | Wordsworth was the guest in Bristol of a wealthy sugar merchant , John Pretor Pinney , whose sons had recently befriended the poet , and it may have been at the Pinney town house in Great George Street that the meeting with Coleridge took place . |
| 10 | I could n't see much this afternoon , but there must have been at least one whole corps on that road . |
| 11 | When we got home I was surprised to see Dad sitting in his usual seat because he should have been at work . |
| 12 | Because the actual physical damage was so variable in its extent , it was immediately obvious to the early investigators that the almost total mortality was not solely the result of the force of the blast , since there would have been at least a few survivors in areas where the blast was less severe . |
| 13 | As a result , I spent a lot of time in training — sometimes a whole afternoon — when I could have been at school . |
| 14 | When she might have been at her most useful , since she was so much more skilled in nursing than Annunciata , she was not allowed near Mrs Browning . |
| 15 | The Ministry of Reconstruction , the only potential co-ordinating body for post-war plans , was dismantled in June 1919 , just when it should have been at the peak of its activities . |
| 16 | The idea , however , that the rebels aimed to kill the King is unlikely — not only did the rebels show a positive loyalty to him at Mile End and Smithfield , and adopt as a watchword ‘ King Richard and the True Commons ’ , but they made no attempt to take vengeance on him for the death of Wat Tyler , when he could have been at their mercy . |
| 17 | And he came down he would have been working for he would have been at that time my great grandfather maybe or and he came down and he lived in lower Millfield after that and just as soon as he was out of his house , they just had the house demolished . |