Example sentences of "[modal v] have [be] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | D' you remember I showed you a manuscript — it must 've been some years ago , now — purporting to be by some mariner who remembered an English cargo boat having gone down between us , here at Møn , and Malmo — during the First Schleswig War ? |
| 2 | The exception was Helga , a Euro-slut from Cologne who should have been several grades higher but kept deliberately failing the aptitude tests so as to be with Massimo . |
| 3 | I can also acknowledge that there must have been many women like her , all over Glasgow ; that there were then in the early 1900s when she was marrying and becoming a mother ; that there were later . |
| 4 | There may have been cases where the acquisition of the wrappers conferred no direct benefit on the Nestle Co. , but there must have been many cases where it did . |
| 5 | Surely there must have been many others equally clinching . |
| 6 | There must have been many daughters like Margaret White , who described in the 1590s how she stayed on living with her widowed father , ‘ guided him and his household , and was continually with him in his sickness until his death ’ . |
| 7 | Umpire Alley eventually warned Holding , but there must have been many Lancastrians who were sad to see Lloyd , on his home ground , do nothing about it . |
| 8 | It must have been several dances later that she noticed Annie standing on the edge of the dance floor . |
| 9 | In the northern Weald , some of these men seem to have come from large Kentish estates round Tonbridge rather than from the Sussex coast ; there must have been several centuries of discussion before Wealden boundaries were finally sorted out . |
| 10 | ‘ It must have been those boys who climbed the wall after my apples , ’ said Miss Miggs . |
| 11 | It must have been those candles at the table . |
| 12 | The uncertainty principle implies that the early universe can not have been completely uniform because there must have been some uncertainties or fluctuations in the positions and velocities of the particles . |
| 13 | Yeah , cos it was you with erm well it must have been some years ago . |
| 14 | But we know that there must have been some irregularities , because otherwise the matter in the universe would still be perfectly uniformly distributed at the present epoch , instead of being clumped together in stars and galaxies . |
| 15 | I mean I I 'd having been these comments and yes there are a couple of extra points put in there I think that that 's fine . |
| 16 | ‘ But that noise need n't have been a retch — could have been all sorts of things . ’ |
| 17 | You can see where there could have been some buildings outside the main ring wall . |
| 18 | It may have been these factors that encouraged the Court to give a restrictive opinion on the powers of the member States . |
| 19 | There may be a s there may have been some guests turn up |
| 20 | Although most of the ‘ Lees ’ were probably Flanellys or Murphies , there may have been some Romanies present . |
| 21 | Rachaela could imagine Emma would have been all congratulations and the joys of womanhood . |
| 22 | Emma had mounted the first step of the stairs and she was unwinding her scarf when she turned and looked down on her mother , saying , ‘ I would have been many things if I had been brought up in peace . ’ |
| 23 | But after what I understand would have been several years of compulsory Russian , he could barely manage da and nyet . |
| 24 | WE shall probably never know the appointments Neil Kinnock had in store for his first week as Prime Minister , but there would have been some surprises . |
| 25 | Er there would have been some cases where that had happened erm and clearly the nationalists had withdrawn from most of southern China into , into south west China and therefore erm th th there 'd been er and there was quite a lot of fighting going , still going across south China so i it 's not quite the same . |
| 26 | One might imagine , perhaps wrongly , that there would have been few craftsmen who either alone or in a group would at any one time have been capable of producing such an item because of the variety of skills required in its production . |
| 27 | A clause achieving this would be as follows : As regards voting in general meetings the holders of the Preference Shares shall be entitled to receive notice of , and to attend at , general meetings of the Company but shall not in respect of their holdings of such shares be entitled to vote upon any resolution unless : ( A ) there shall have been any Arrears on any Preference Shares or Preferred Ordinary Shares for more than two months on the date of the notice convening the meeting ; or ( B ) the Company , on any of the Redemption Dates under sub-paragraph ( d ) ( i ) below of this Article 2.2 , shall have failed or been unable to redeem all or any of the Preference Shares falling to be redeemed on any such Redemption Date ; or ( C ) the resolution is one which directly or indirectly varies , modifies , alters or abrogates any of the rights , privileges , limitations or restrictions attaching to the Preference Shares or " A " Ordinary Shares ; or ( D ) the resolution is for the winding up of the Company , the reduction of share capital , the approval of the giving of financial assistance or the purchase by it of any of its shares . |
| 28 | So widely dispersed was industrial activity that there can have been few parts of the country that did not support it in one form or another . |