Example sentences of "[modal v] have [be] [det] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not a contest to excite the audience and there must have been some anxiety in Mason 's corner as it approached a critical stage . |
| 2 | There must have been some error in the Conservative Central Office word processor as it churned out yet another brief for the hon. Gentleman to repeat . |
| 3 | There must have been some magic in his fingers because they made her head tingle . |
| 4 | It must have been some time in August when I took those pictures , Rufus thought , and a couple of weeks later it was all over . |
| 5 | If the increase in child benefit had been a real increase , there might have been some logic in that . |
| 6 | I am not spreading or sagging , the glow of an early sun tan had probably removed a year or two and I 've discovered that lipstick does wonders , but there could have been little doubt in his mind that I was closer in age to his mother than to him . |
| 7 | She could have been any girl in any photograph . |
| 8 | For example , there may have been little point in devising an ‘ inner area ’ and allocating resources to it . |
| 9 | It may have been that while in Japan he found the taste of humble pie just a little too much to stomach . |
| 10 | Since the Wilson Committee reported there may have been some improvement in the availability of bank finance for small businesses . |
| 11 | She didn there would 've been enough change in that and Kath was gon na go straight to the bank and get her some money back , right ? |
| 12 | ( 2 ) Some of the express provisions of section 10(9) — for example paragraphs ( c ) and ( d ) ( i ) — as to the matters to which the court is to have particular regard in deciding an application for leave to apply for a section 8 order would be otiose if the whole application were subject to the overriding provisions of section 1(1). ( 3 ) There would have been little point in Parliament providing that the court was to have particular regard to the wishes and feelings of the child 's parent , if the whole decision were to be subject to the overriding ( paramount ) consideration of the child 's welfare . |
| 13 | Mackie denied he had been told that and said that if he had been told the meeting was confidential from the start there would have been little point in him , as an analyst , being there . |
| 14 | Research commissioned by the Department of Education and Science indicated that the average loss of benefits among students who actually claimed them — and they were a minority — would have been some £327 in the past academic year . |
| 15 | It is easy now to regard this wonder at an enemy 's humanity as naïve , but as it is the business of war to foster the naïveté on which it thrives , so there can have been few people in England during the isolation years of 1940–42 who did not take the impersonal nature of their enemy for granted . |