Example sentences of "of [pron] [modal v] have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similar attitudes of troops of occupation of all ages and in all places , from South America to India , help us understand the revulsion now felt by many Britons , some of whom may have been sympathetic to Rome and hopeful of recognition of their natural rights and dignity . |
| 2 | It was necessary to show that at least some of them might have been first acquired through the will , in order to satisfy a desire , or to relieve a disagreeable sensation . |
| 3 | Some of those qualities appear to have been inherited by Frederick 's youngest son Herbert and , as already mentioned , some of them may have been present in Frederick 's uncle William . |
| 4 | There were fewer than seven under-strength German divisions in Yugoslavia , none of them would have been suitable for service in France or North Italy , as has been maintained . |
| 5 | Without the traffic-free tranquillity of the town centre , none of them would have been noticeable . |
| 6 | None of them could have been happy at that time . |
| 7 | The cellars are full of junk , most of which might have been useful once but all of which is now covered in water or mud or fungus . |
| 8 | The villa at Box , Wilts. , had pavements of white limestone ( used for much of the background work ) , blue-black lias , a dark-grey/ chocolate-coloured pennant stone , red from broken tiles and yellow oolite ; all of which would have been procurable within about five miles of the site . |
| 9 | All of which would have been bad enough without Charlotte 's final revelation . |
| 10 | It was significant that the Official Secrets Act — the use of which would have been fatal to the publication — was not resorted to by the government . |
| 11 | They may be composed of impact ejecta , some of which may have been molten . |
| 12 | They dropped down into a chamber , the roof of which must have been seven or eight feet high , and where the air seemed quite fresh . |
| 13 | RAF teams from Abingdon had the unenviable task of moving the RAF Museum 's XL318 by road to Hendon , the real cost of which must have been mind-boggling . |
| 14 | Part of him would have been sorry to hear that she had been shot , or sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in the filth of an Austrian gaol . |
| 15 | For example , It turned scarlet does not entail It turned red , since the referent of it may have been some other shade of red to begin with ; nor , obviously , does the reverse entailment hold . |
| 16 | But none of it would have been possible without Cecil 's political influence and contacts , as well as his official revenue . |
| 17 | None of the overtones of subordination and all the rest of it would have been present to the Hebrew . |
| 18 | Herbs are cast into the fire by the Lady of the Flowers in lieu of what may have been gory sacrifices by our sun-worshipping ancestors . |
| 19 | Campese 's decision robbed 60,000 in the stadium , and countless millions around the world , of what would have been one of the most intense and fascinating finales to the World Cup , with England only three points behind , their heads up and winning score in sight . |
| 20 | Brady was yesterday reluctant to say too much on the subject of his meeting with some board members , but it was obvious that the details of what ought to have been private business becoming public knowledge had disturbed the manager . |
| 21 | Derek seems to remember that it was shortly after this change that a couple of what could have been nasty instances occurred . |
| 22 | This was the site of what must have been one of the longest running water disputes in molinological history . |
| 23 | Charles Kingsley , writing of the final destruction of the Fens , was perhaps the first to regret the loss of what must have been one of the finest natural systems in Europe . |
| 24 | He kept talking about wanting to put things on to a sound financial footing , in which case none of us would have been able to afford to live in the club . |
| 25 | The Rev Aaron Longwe , who has been detained and tortured by the regime for speaking out about corruption , told a gathering of former missionaries at the Kirk 's headquarters in Edinburgh : ‘ If it were not for the Church of Scotland some of us would have been dead by now . ’ |