Example sentences of "[modal v] it have be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could it have been simply an accident ? |
| 2 | But after hundreds of years of colonisation and settlement , of population shifts and absorption , how could it have been otherwise ? |
| 3 | How could it have been otherwise ? |
| 4 | Nor need it have been completely unexpected , for the original appointment of a German , whom Cnut had possibly brought from Denmark , could , though need not , imply that he was concerned from the start about the trustworthiness of the Ramsey abbot . |
| 5 | When would it have been approximately when he started this would you say ? |
| 6 | Would it have been more honourable for Prothero to let Pound go on submitting , when there was no hope of his being accepted ? |
| 7 | Nor would it have been constitutionally possible for me to have become head of the Church of England . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But what can it have been then ? ’ |