Example sentences of "[conj] [Wh det] [vb mod] have [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Len did n't answer , then a sound that could have been a sigh or which might have been a sob escaped his lips , a sound full of despair . |
| 2 | Or what should have been a chord . |
| 3 | On the other hand , providing a false diagnosis adds to patients ' disability , reinforces maladaptive behaviour , and ensures that what might have been a brief illness becomes refractory to treatment . |
| 4 | All these factors reduce the response rate , no matter how good the original sample may have been , so that what may have been a reasonable one-in-five sample to begin with ends up as nearer one-in-ten actually obtained , because of losses . |
| 5 | FEBRUARY , May and August could be seen as rehearsals for November 's main event so that what may have been a series of happenings in these months could lead to November 's denouement . |
| 6 | Several readers have asked if the kick was correctly taken , and what would have been the decision if defending players not on the goal-line had prevented Brooke from scoring a try . |
| 7 | And what would have been the point ? |
| 8 | And what should have been a piece of gaily irresponsible nonsense becomes impregnated with evil . ’ |
| 9 | And what should have been a doddle for Lord Waddington turned into a disaster . |
| 10 | If Donuel ( Domnall ) , father of Talorcan 's successors in the kingship of the Picts , first Gartnait and then Drest , could be securely identified as Domnall Brecc , formerly king of Dál Riata , Gartnait and Drest could perhaps be viewed as the beneficiaries of an alliance between the Scots and the northern Angles against the Picts ; but Donuel 's identification with Domnall Brecc is not certain , and what could have been a break in the succession of kings of the Picts occurred from 663 to 665/6 between the death of Gartnait and the accession of Drest . |
| 11 | He stared at the rows of glass jars below the books on the walls — and saw an eye staring back at him from one of them , and what could have been a human foetus in another . |
| 12 | But ultimately it is lost in a quagmire of stylistic density and what could have been a startling book ends up feeling turgid . |
| 13 | Fortune smiled on me that night , and what could have been a disaster was averted . |
| 14 | For some time now , the SARA Executive has been seeking input more generally from the rowing population for the updating of its Development Plan , but what might have been a good idea to achieve this seems set for a less than successful conclusion . |
| 15 | But what would have been the motive ? ’ |