Example sentences of "[modal v] have [been] no [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , there should have been no doubt about the larva that dined on Robin Prytherch , natural history film-maker and ornithologist . |
| 2 | There should have been no room in his universe for sub-divine but super-human powers , other than devils or angels ; however the senders of Scyld seem supernatural in knowledge and purpose , while showing no interest in the inhabitants of Denmark 's souls . |
| 3 | The issue was as politically predictable as they come , there should have been no muddle as a result . |
| 4 | If anything had gone wrong , there might have been no chances for another . |
| 5 | In fact , once the evidence that Minos lived and ruled in the Labyrinth at Knossos has been seen as hopelessly insubstantial , it begins to look as if there might have been no king at all . |
| 6 | She answered , ‘ If I had been told the true facts , my father , there could have been no doubt about that . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ From the moment he caught the bear 's attention there could have been no chance of him escaping . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , this panic reaction was neither universal nor permanent ; if it had been there could have been no War of Independence . |
| 9 | Had there been , there could have been no room for doubt . |
| 10 | There 'd have been no comebacks for the station . |
| 11 | ‘ At least there 'd have been no doubt about our ability to pay . |
| 12 | There 'd have been no need for Ephraim Cook then to manage the business when he was gone ; an upright , Nonconformist — Mr Cook — the kind who never allowed a drop of alcohol , or a smile , to pass his lips and whose well-trained conscience would never allow him to cheat Gemma nor to waste a penny of her money , no matter how hard Tristan tried . |
| 13 | ‘ There may have been no danger to you . |
| 14 | It seems to me quite certain that , if for four centuries there had been a very widely extended franchise and a very large elected body in this country , there would have been no reformation of religion , no change of dynasty , no toleration of Dissent , not even an accurate Calendar . |
| 15 | It would have been no secret to you that Connors of the Globe would tip me off if he found out a thing like that . |
| 16 | Two carriages took the Bradford family to early morning service , though it would have been no distance for them to walk . |
| 17 | If hed have stayed there would have been no hassles at all . |
| 18 | ‘ On Friday night there would have been no water in the basin after two , not enough to float a cork . ’ |
| 19 | Had the Tuairisc model been adopted , there would have been no question of NICRA initiating demonstrations in Dungannon or Derry ; this would have been the responsibility of purely local groups . |
| 20 | If I had done as they said there would have been no chance of being fit enough for the expedition . |
| 21 | There would have been no difficulty in establishing the appropriate standard of care for the medical defendant . |
| 22 | There would have been no possibility of winning her consent to handing him the tape , let alone the private detective 's report . |
| 23 | Apart from the time Gould would have spent stalking , shooting , skinning , and preparing these and a host of other birds , there would have been no possibility of him visiting all these different localities and reaching the west bend of the Murray . |
| 24 | I mean , the line-up in the film was terrific , but as far as Yul Brynner was concerned there would have been no film without him . |
| 25 | He added : ‘ If somebody had known the bloody rules , they could have told us straight away and it would have been no problem at all . |
| 26 | And I mean if they 'd not looked in a paper in nineteen eighty seven eighty eight , and realized that fifteen percent of the fund had suddenly gone missing cos it had you know dropped they they 'd have still got income from their investments , and if they did n't need to cash it , then it would have been no problem at all . |
| 27 | The alternative , many of the fathers believed , would have been no text at all . |
| 28 | There would have been no sense in which men with such a moral sense would have been mistaken , would not have known the real moral truth . |
| 29 | said the performance of the Courtaulds staff was outstanding and , had the emergency been real , there would have been no consequences for the general public or the environment . |
| 30 | This is a book about books ; but some small space must be found for that art , and its products , which preceded printing by many thousands of years and without which there would have been no books at all — that of handwriting . |