Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been [prep] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been like that for Euturpia , when she was turned out to the cabana . |
| 2 | ‘ It must have been like this in Arkaig when my father first went there , ’ Cameron said to Menzies . |
| 3 | They might have been like this for three centuries , and could be for three centuries more . |
| 4 | He could have been behind any of the closed doors . |
| 5 | Arsenic was a common substance and could have been in some of the remedies Mrs Armstrong took . |
| 6 | Tamsin , being half and half , could have been in any of them . |
| 7 | He added that disaffected factions within the BBC opposed to Mr Birt 's programme of reforms may have been behind some of the attempts to destabilise him . |
| 8 | By a brilliant defence based on a clever choice of terrain that would have been beyond most of the other French generals at that time , de Castelnau saved the vital city of Nancy . |
| 9 | That great audience assembled to hear a speaker quite unknown in the political world and the enthusiasm created was an eye-opener to me , and would have been to most of the Westminster hacks with whom I had previously associated public influence . ’ |