Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [been] a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There must have been a series , general knowledge three that 's |
| 2 | But Mr Marshall says that while there may have been a 15% reduction in area , overall output may be only 10% lower . |
| 3 | FEBRUARY , May and August could be seen as rehearsals for November 's main event so that what may have been a series of happenings in these months could lead to November 's denouement . |
| 4 | Er we said last week that the on the only , the only real way that the peasants were gon na er mobilize was if they , they thought that they could actually win and so surely the violence would have been a means of saying we 're a credible force to be reckoned with |
| 5 | Winter frosts would have annually disrupted the surfaces , as happened to the coach roads of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries before the invention of Mr Macadam ; the end result would have been a series of monumental ruts and pot-holes . |
| 6 | A headline in the early weeks of 1991 referred to a 20% failure rate in reading skills ; an alternative , and preferable , line would have been an 80% success rate and a reminder of the conclusion of the Warnock Committee that , at any one time , 18% of the school population has special educational needs . |