Example sentences of "[modal v] have be well [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The RUC with new Pipe Major Mark Faloon must have been well encouraged when their ‘ C ’ set took third on 60 . |
| 2 | If Europe had not suffered so many years of religious cruelty and persecution , the home-grown cats might have been better developed and ready to compete with the extravagant foreigners . |
| 3 | I believe the technological revolution would have been better served if Blackett had been appointed to a real job , rather than to an advisory one to Frank Cousins , who became Minister of Technology . |
| 4 | In retrospect Adenauer 's personal reputation would have been better served if he had retired gracefully in 1961 . |
| 5 | My people feel that the right hon. Gentleman would have been better employed if he had rushed to comfort the bereaved rather than carry out a song-and-dance act among people in Dublin , or even watch a rugby match . |
| 6 | I fear , however , that Woodward 's vocation would have been better exercised if he had confined himself to hospital portering . |
| 7 | Since it was carried out over a four-month summer period ( May-August ) , the practices of these industries with summer peaks will have been better captured than the practices of those with peaks at other times of the year . |