Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [been] [adj] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt she should have been alarmed at this thought but she remained excited by it . |
| 2 | What remains puzzling is why the book should have been notorious at all . |
| 3 | Perhaps yeah I think you must have been airborne at that stage to be er , had such a enormous flame going up into the balloon . |
| 4 | He could have been right at that , when one considers the trips that hippies take after eating some types of mushroom . |
| 5 | None of them could have been happy at that time . |
| 6 | Griffith could not prepare or test fibres thinner than about a ten thousandth of an inch ( 2.5 m ) and , if he had , it would have been difficult at that time to measure the thickness with any sort of accuracy . |
| 7 | It would have been hard at that point not to be ejected from the train . |
| 8 | Thus ( 61 ) will be true , on this account , just in case there is some reference time ( say , another event ) prior to CT , such that at that reference time , ( 62 ) would have been true ( while ( 62 ) is in turn true , just in case ( 63 ) would have been true at some point prior to the CT of ( 62 ) ) : ( 6z ) John had seen Mary ( 62 ) John saw Mary ( 63 ) John sees Mary But such M-tenses do not match up simply with L-tenses , for L-tenses nearly always encode additional aspectual and modal features too ( see Comrie , 1976a ; Lyons , 1977a : 703ff , 809ff ) . |