Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] have [be] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that same summer , however , occurred the incident involving the Hurufis , to be described shortly , in which Fahreddin Acemi is clearly shown to be acting as Mufti ; and he must therefore have been Mufti at the time of Molla Arab 's putative association with him . |
| 2 | It may just have been coincidence , but since the A1GSM went in , I have had no trouble at all with fish ailments . |
| 3 | But it might just have been anxiety . |
| 4 | The colourless liquid in the glass she carried might just have been water , perhaps ; but whatever it was she seemed unwontedly sober . |
| 5 | There was the dark-eyed , slant-featured look of the ancient lost Royal Houses of Ireland in several of them , the glossy hair that might easily have been fur in others . |
| 6 | There was a transparent sachet of something brown and thick , chocolate paste or miso ; one dried-up anchovy in an open tin , its coat of salt dried to a hard crust ; and a smear of something on a saucer that might once have been pesto sauce . |
| 7 | He landed in a heap of what might once have been straw . |
| 8 | During 1845 no less than £45 : 0s. : 0d. was spent on slating and floor flagging at the Forge Cottages , which suggests the ground floors might originally have been earth — common enough . |
| 9 | Funnily enough , then , but for 296 or so bigoted votes , the Rt Hon RD Kernohan MP might now have been Secretary of State . |
| 10 | Although just over five feet eight inches tall , and seldom well trained , at his best he was strong , fast , and skilful enough to hold his own with Cribb , reputedly the best of all bare-knuckle boxers , and but for his fondness for high living , might well have been champion . |
| 11 | Note that although the actions of the mother , father and child might well have been part of one connected incident , the cuts to the first shot of the older child and to the shot of the father getting to his feet open up the possibility that the actions could in fact have been parts of separate but similar incidents which took place over a very much longer span of time ; the shot of the father could well have been contrived specially , with the help of a little direction from the cameraman in between shots . |
| 12 | No donor 's name is even hinted at but it could easily have been Lance Henly . |
| 13 | It surprised me but it could easily have been tiredness from being out so long . |
| 14 | Rosa often went to the washplace with Sabina to help her and she was glad that she could pull her blue cotton dress out of the basket and slosh it into the water before anyone else could examine it for stains ; not that the stain spoke openly of its origins ; it could easily have been milk , thought Rosa . |
| 15 | This Mr Deputy Speaker , could easily have been accommodation had the bill been brought to the house just seven weeks earlier than it actually was brought to the house , seven weeks were n't the problem . |
| 16 | Only tame , domesticated animals could possibly have been part of the goods and chattels of that early band of pioneers , striking out for a new island home . |
| 17 | This could hardly have been coincidence . |
| 18 | Her ‘ after ’ photographs portrayed a very very different shaped lady — one you would not have believed could ever have been pear shaped . |
| 19 | It could also have been irritation . |
| 20 | They were all thin people — there 'd almost have been room for a fourth person in the double his parents had bought him as a wedding present , so getting three people in it was certainly not an impossibility . |
| 21 | Without the work they did , I could never have been Prime Minister , others could never have been cabinet ministers , nor would we have as many women members of parliament as we have today . |
| 22 | It can also be argued that there are many references in the Old Testament to conditions that may well have been syphilis . |
| 23 | Of course , there may well have been conjecture when so many people invaded Maternity when the infant was delivered , but that was something you permitted . ’ |
| 24 | On the other hand , one source of satisfaction to the USSR , as one of the world 's major gold producers , may well have been news released in September 1980 that New York gold prices had soared on reports that war had broken out . |
| 25 | There may well have been planning permission for the activities in question in those cases . |
| 26 | Natch if the operation had gotten the go-code , that List would only have been part of it . |
| 27 | This is conceded in respect of an offence which would once have been larceny by a trick . |
| 28 | There would hardly have been harmony between them if they had the same desires , if their interests coincided , if they were a threat to each other . |
| 29 | Had the top layer of chalk found on the surface soil of the Falaises been mostly of the Micraster type , it is extremely improbable that there would ever have been champagne . |
| 30 | There would always have been ambivalence towards her charges because they were not only a means to an end , but also rivals for the limited rations of parental attention . |