Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] have [be] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This in turn suggests that class politics of the old sort may only have been the politics of modernism in its classic , now discredited phase . |
| 2 | It may only have been the milestone of hitting thirty , but I could n't help feeling that it was proof that life was passing me by . |
| 3 | Even so , she felt sure that it was something to do with her , that there should only have been the Maxwell girl there . |
| 4 | It should not have been a surprise that companies sought to use that range of permissible techniques to present their results in the best light . |
| 5 | It has been suggested that they were all Lutheran , but really there is no reason why they should not have been a mix Lutheran , possibly Calvinist , and Roman Catholic . |
| 6 | ‘ It was an absolutely ridiculous decision , ’ said Kelly , who has maintained all along that there should not have been a re-match . |
| 7 | To judge by the piles of broken stone , chunks of gargoyle , carved oak , black-brown and shot with wormholes , the upper chamber must once have been a workshop but was now a dump for unwanted Cathedral tat . |
| 8 | Climbing up on to a high bastion , I looked down over the shimmering interior of the fort and thought of the words that must once have been a set text for the cavalrymen stationed here : |
| 9 | Peering out , I could see that there must once have been a garden or kail-yard between the cottage and the cliff ; now the tumbledown wall enclosed nothing but a tangle of brambles and wild roses almost hiding a garden hut . |
| 10 | Though Antarctica must once have been the home of marsupials and possibly of placental mammals , it is currently the only world continent without a land mammal population . |
| 11 | Wide-eyed in reproach , those windows must once have been the glory of Holford . |
| 12 | They must once have been the focus of her beauty , and although they were sunken now , he could still see the glint of intelligence behind them . |
| 13 | Ensuring the water supply for the towns during the dry Cretan summers must always have been a problem . |
| 14 | It must always have been the case that some problems are inherently insoluble , but perhaps it is the stress on all social services that turns the CAB into the last port of call when all others have failed . |
| 15 | There must also have been a loop so that locomotives could run round their trains in order to be at the front for the journey back to Bishop 's Castle . |
| 16 | The company 's satisfaction with labour relations at Bridgend in South Wales must also have been a factor in the decision to build a £750m engine plant there . |
| 17 | Madame had you see known him in his alcoholic days , when indeed such calm must often have been the prelude to him lurching into an argument , or falling heavily from his stool . |
| 18 | Yet the very need for such public show-trials , apparently highlighting the fragility of the Soviet Union , its vulnerability to fascist and capitalist subversion , must inevitably have been a cause of concern and growing disquiet . |
| 19 | They see it as the ultimate proof that there must originally have been a designer , not a blind watchmaker but a far-sighted supernatural watchmaker . |
| 20 | It is very evidently a thorough piece of work ; the judgements seem well justified , and the whole exercise must surely have been a labour of love . |
| 21 | The ‘ stuttering notes must surely have been the result of the hammers bouncing . |
| 22 | Herbert von Karajan must surely have been the world 's greatest conductor . |
| 23 | There should n't have been a cattle herd of feet trampling over the grass . |
| 24 | Like the reader who finds that the chapters of his detective novel have been printed in the wrong order , we may only now be beginning to understand why from the point of view of ego- and superego-development the crime which should be at the beginning ( that of Oedipus ) comes at the end , and why what comes at the beginning ( the oral period ) leads unintelligibly into what should otherwise have been the conclusion of the story ( anal stage , latency ) ! |
| 25 | A second factor must certainly have been the challenge to Alhred from Aethelred , son of Aethelwald Moll , who was crowned in Alhred 's place ‘ with great honour ’ . |
| 26 | Svetlanov 's way with La mer might easily have been refracted through the prism of early , Russian-orientated Stravinsky who , as it happens ( and should certainly have been the case ) , was one of the composers featured in the London Sinfonietta 's Queen Elizabeth Hall contribution to the ‘ Towards the Millennium ’ series , which , every year until 2000 , will digest systematically a particular decade of music from 1900 onwards . |
| 27 | my personal view was that we , we should have some form of , two things , one is communicating the realities of the situation , it 's a fairly new market , there was a lot of competitors in the market , coming into the market , there was a lot of confusion in the market there was a lot of confusion in the market as to exactly what it was that customer could buy , there was also a lot of confusion of as to , cos there are different types of customer , and over sixty five , there are about seven different categories , there was a need for someone and I believe it should therefore have been the market leader at that time to if you want to establish principals , establish what they , this was in the market and establish what the elderly would be , would , should look for when purchasing a retirement apartment . |
| 28 | The fiscal year to December 31 1992 should actually have been a year of consolidation . |
| 29 | That message , delivered to you in Kefalov , may not have been a boast but a warning . |
| 30 | A rather elaborate superstructure consisted of a bridge , saloon , a dining-room and what may or may not have been a galley . |