Example sentences of "there [modal v] have be [num] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vaults were then changed at night or when the bus had finished service and then were counted by a different means , they were counted by machine coin counters and er so , instead of say erm what , sixty or seventy conductors paying in their money , this was all erm on the bus , so there may have been five or six drivers had worked that bus that day and all the takings he 'd taken during the time was all in this night safe in this vault . |
| 2 | There may have been one or two injured |
| 3 | There may have been one or two planning applications which have been a little bit difficult to deal with but that 's life surely . |
| 4 | There must have been two or three thousand on the river banks and the water . |
| 5 | These are the affirmations that were being made as Jesus trotted in Jerusalem with this little donkey , his followers gathered all around him looking from the heights of the walls of Jerusalem , there must have been one or two curious , astonished , worried eyes , the Sanhedrin , the Chief Elders , |
| 6 | There must have been forty or fifty of them . |
| 7 | There should have , there should have been three or four names , and that 's , I 'm talking about visiting residential homes . |
| 8 | So th let's look then back at this illustration for a moment , this incident , Jesus then gets er a few of his disciples and they go out , in the boat , and there are others who follow him , they get into their boats quite likely , quite possibly that many of the others would have been followers of Jesus , some of his other disciples , it 's unlikely in these very small little er lakeside fishing boats that many of disciples would have got in , there might have been four or five of them that would have been about the lot and so the others would have got into some of the other boats which were nearby and , and others are the people that had been listening to Jesus , they too get into boats , and they pull out following him , wanting to hear if he 's got anything more to say , wanting to witness anything else that he 's gon na do , they wan na be there to see and to hear what Jesus has to say and is going to do . |
| 9 | No I do n't think there were , there might have been one or two , yes I do know one that used to make some form of er something for the saddlery trade and you know those houses opposite the alms houses in Road , there are some alms houses on the one side , then there 's some houses that lie up steps on the other side of the road if they 're still there . |
| 10 | No no , individuals , oh there might have been five or six or maybe eight caravans . |
| 11 | There might have been twenty or thirty figures in there , but it was too dark to distinguish anything more than their vague shapes . |
| 12 | Maybe there were not that quantity in every one but there would have been twelve or fourteen crews on every station . |
| 13 | In the old days , there would have been two or three servants to do the monthly wash . |