Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I think maybe if the girls had been in they might have been a bit shier and felt you know , oh we have to act you know , the lads . |
| 2 | Then erm one could go on , because the building industry , for instance , civil engineering , road construction , actual buildings being constructed , they 're all very weather-prone , for quite a large extent of the contract , and so we provide erm weather advice to these people throughout the contract period usually , and not only throughout the contract period , but if the contract is held up because of weather then the , we get extension of contract comes into this , we can advise both sides on whether the claim is justified or not , because we have the statistics of how much rain fell , how cold it was , or perhaps it might have been a windy spell . |
| 3 | So it would have been a wonderful night . |
| 4 | So it must have been a grown person 's skull but it 's too small and light for an adult male , so it must have been a woman . |
| 5 | so it must have been a third X cubed |
| 6 | It was n't a difficult exercise and normally it would have been a very pleasant way of seeing some wonderful countryside . |
| 7 | From behind I could have been a man with my hood up . |
| 8 | He thought now it might have been a mistake . |
| 9 | If Bernie had n't been around we would have been a band , and we would have been a good band but we would n't have been the band . |
| 10 | Well it would have been a hell of a lot of money . |
| 11 | Well it may have been a grunt of irritation that his lovely hire-car was steaming up with two sweaty , stinking hill-walkers who had forced their way in uninvited , but I prefer to think disbelief . |
| 12 | Well it could have been a cheque for a |
| 13 | Well it must have been a tough old crab because this did n't work either . |
| 14 | Well it must have been a tall , a long cat and a low door but it would lift the knocker and knock its way in |
| 15 | Alternatively it might have been a shop purveying cooked food , or it could have provided eating facilities for travellers along the road . |
| 16 | It was in 1927 for example that Kenneth Macpherson speculated whether those early film audiences had not just been distracted and drawn mindlessly from the streets but rather it might have been a case of ‘ the people getting in some dim way the fact that there was something under their eyes , a sense of life and expectancy ’ . |
| 17 | If she had n't yielded to a guilty passion then she would have been a better wife to Denny . |
| 18 | If he had denied it , and we later proved he had been on the moat , then it would have been a different matter . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Then it must have been a ghost , ’ said Betty , and clearly wished she had n't . |
| 20 | But if that hysteria does no more than feed the seemingly insatiable appetite for publications on microcomputers then it will have been a waste to have trundled the IT bandwagon around Britain . |
| 21 | I think if I 'm just a splinter out of his head , then he must have been a bit like me , not much though . ’ |
| 22 | All three spoke as though the moment were of no real consequence , but I know that for Mother and for O at least it must have been a strange and moving moment . |
| 23 | No claim has yet been made by any paramilitary group about his killing and the Royal Ulster Constabulary said yesterday they were not aware of any reason why he should have been a target . |
| 24 | Otherwise it might have been a great deal more difficult to ignore . |
| 25 | Earlier biographies tend to suffer from the ‘ he was a genius therefore he must have been a saint ’ syndrome . |