Example sentences of "[adv] it [modal v] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 24 April : The Sun seems to be having second thoughts about Ken Livingstone : ‘ If the Labour Party had been led by John Smith over the last nine years , perhaps it would have been in power today , ’ says an editorial . |
| 2 | He had offered to walk with her and obviously it would have been in the moonlight , house lights not withstanding . |
| 3 | So it must have been in nineteen eighty nine , just after the |
| 4 | Well it would have been at one time . |
| 5 | Well it must have been in the evening cos it was shut . |
| 6 | Well when I , I saw him come in door at this end and I thought oh well , I 'll follow them see if they 've gone back and they were sat , well it must have been behind the back |
| 7 | ‘ Then it might have been from a bank loan that Andrew raised privately . ’ |
| 8 | If the contract had been ‘ straightforward ’ then it would have been worth half the £1.31 million that he was to be paid . |
| 9 | But then he kept going on about how brilliant your party was gon na be and everything and I 'm sat there thinking let's face it , if I come on between you know , because like , it would have been alright cos I 'd be finished like , today or tomorrow and then it would have been like nice and ready for the party ! |
| 10 | He drew her close again and they fell silent , Rachel reflecting on how hard it must have been for David not to have told her what had really happened between himself and her sister , then another thought struck her . |
| 11 | Again her mathematics O level was already a re-sit and again it might have been beyond her at that stage . |
| 12 | Otherwise it would have been in here . ’ |