Example sentences of "[modal v] have be [prep] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reservations that Galileo 's rivals held about accepting phenomena such as the moons of Jupiter that Galileo had learnt to see must have been in part due , not to prejudice , but to genuine difficulties encountered when learning to ‘ see ’ through what were , after all , very crude telescopes . |
| 2 | The fragmentary remains from Eccles have been interpreted as the figures of two gladiators , although , in light of the subjects of other figural designs in Britain ( see below ) , this might also have been a hunting scene ( or could have been of figures other than gladiators ; see the drawing of Cupids as gladiators : pI . |
| 3 | Of course it could have been in B Minor and then they would all have been carried out . ’ |
| 4 | Aethelwald Moll , who became king of Northumbria in 759 , may have been of Deiran royal descent ; his power-base certainly seems to have been in Deira ( see below , p. 150 ) . |
| 5 | Such terms were scarcely to Edward 's liking , but he confirmed the treaty on 13 June , and in a fatal misjudgement , for which the Despensers may have been in part responsible , Edward agreed to allow his son Prince Edward , now aged eleven , to go to France in his place to do homage . |
| 6 | If the upper part had been true as to intervals it would have been in B major , and of course the tonal results would have been chaotic : organ Whether intervals are true or false does not matter to listeners , who can not easily distinguish the difference . |