Example sentences of "[pron] it [modal v] have be [conj] " in BNC.

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1 It it should have been because I put in .
2 This could have come about by virtue of the fact that at every stage of evolution the original life force ( whatever it may have been and relegated in this book to the pre-life period ) was always carried by the species at the head of the chain , and this was the species which would ultimately become the human race .
3 And that hurt was slight , compared to what it might have been if things had n't happened the way they had tonight .
4 ( 3 ) … the court shall , on such an application , make such order as it thinks fit for restoring the position to what it would have been if the company had not entered into that transaction . ’
5 ( 3 ) … the court shall , on such an application , make such order as it thinks fit for restoring the position to what it would have been if the company had not given that preference . ’
6 ( 2 ) The court shall , on such an application , make such order as it thinks fit for restoring the position to what it would have been if that individual had not entered into that transaction . ’
7 The court has power to make such order as it thinks fit for restoring the position to what it would have been if the transaction had not been entered into and also , in this case , for protecting the interests of persons who are the victims of the transaction : subsection ( 2 ) .
8 The direct tax take is now more than £30 billion below what it would have been if the old system had remained in place and indexed .
9 The court can make such order as it thinks fit to restore the position to what it would have been if the company had not given that preference .
10 In a sense it is all too easy in retrospect to see what it must have been that hurried Elizabeth to that early grave .
11 Erm maintain , to maintain contact is not as good as what it should 've been but that was fair enough .
12 ‘ I keep asking myself what it could have been that she was so keen to tell me on the phone .
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