Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there may only have been one clock in the town where they worked and that would have been on the town hall or the church . |
| 2 | As for boffin , although the Oxford English Dictionary states that its etymology is unknown , I have conjectured that this same purist Huxley may inadvertently have been responsible for it . |
| 3 | It may perhaps have been valid in the past to dichotomize theoretical stances into endogenous ( formulated in terms of what is natural to humans ) and exogenous ( formulated in terms of sociocultural factors ) ( Heelas 1983 ) ; but many biologists today think that there is a built-in capacity for change through learning capable of giving directive impulses for change . |
| 4 | John Major must secretly have been pleased at the way last week 's royal shocker deflected attention from the summit — the rest of us were just pleased to avoid being bored to death by this most tedious of Edinburgh festivals . |
| 5 | They should perhaps have been higher on the agenda than appears to have been the case . |
| 6 | For Jesus to have been accepted as the Messiah , he must necessarily have been prepared to wield the liberator 's sword . |
| 7 | ‘ You must only have been infatuated with him if you 've got over him so quickly , ’ remarked Betty repressively . |
| 8 | By that time — possibly as little as a year and a half after Jesus 's death — they must already have been widespread and numerous , because Paul , acting on behalf of the established Sadducee priesthood and armed with warrants from the High Priest , undertakes to hunt them out as far away as Damascus . |
| 9 | The person who dies must normally have been resident in the United Kingdom , and the funeral has to take place in the UK . |
| 10 | She should still have been able to get a seat , but she should not have a carriage practically to herself . |
| 11 | But we 've just said that he should still have been able to work out that his space was curved , even though he could n't see it . |
| 12 | Communal organisation must still have been necessary , however , for the system of clearing and farming to occur at all . |
| 13 | Mehmed el-Fenari ; and he not unnaturally concludes that Molla Fenari must still have been alive at that date . |
| 14 | Times must still have been hard down Whittox Lane , though nearly all its inhabitants seem to have been employed in some way or another — most of them in the clothing trade , alongside Mr. Middleditch , the Badcox Lane Baptist minister , and Charles Dyer , 23 , a coal miner . |
| 15 | Charlie stared out at the open fields that must once have been productive farmland . |
| 16 | His wrinkled face must once have been handsome . |
| 17 | Her black eyes , penetrating still , must once have been beautiful . |
| 18 | Churchmen must always have been aware of family loyalties , and when these became involved in politics there may often have been a strong temptation to give active support . |
| 19 | What must always have been clear to perceptive teachers , and what is now being documented in some detail in research , is that racism and sexism are experienced in numerous different ways , depending upon the groups concerned and the educational context . |
| 20 | I do n't think that 's bad or that it should ever stop being that way . |
| 21 | The club dealt with the matter commendably but men like Murray must inwardly have been dismayed . |
| 22 | This problem must also have been worse for some people because , even though I 'm only 16 , I am 5ft 8ins . |
| 23 | His hands were very full with arrangements for his attack on Normandy , and there must also have been many discussions about the terms on which he would be willing to make peace with the papacy . |
| 24 | There must have been some great stars and some ecstatic moments in those cosy halls but there must also have been many second- and third-rate performers , constant recourse to stereotypes , excessive repetition , and buckets of sentimentality . |
| 25 | That much must also have been clear to contemporary foreign observers . |
| 26 | My purpose in the remainder of this chapter is to set out the main principles of exploring multidimensional language states in present-day communities , on the assumption that historical states of language must also have been multidimensional . |
| 27 | The downstairs door must also have been open , because I could hear the clatter of the harpsichord mechanism . |
| 28 | But what is important here is that , just as present-day language states are normally heterogeneous , so historical language states must also have been heterogeneous in similar ways ; hence , unilinear historical descriptions of single varieties ( such as ‘ standard ’ English ) can not be adequate descriptions of the history of a language . |
| 29 | He knew about Lamarck 's theory of the inheritance of acquired characteristics , but dismissed this as a secondary process that could not account for the whole range of adaptations ( he must also have been aware of the strong opposition to Lamarckism from Owen and the conservative forces in science ) . |
| 30 | For example , if the Bushmen of the Kalahari , who live by hunting and gathering , accord a high status to women this , it was assumed , must also have been true of the hunters and gatherers of prehistoric times . |