Example sentences of "[modal v] it have be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morse took his time to answer : ‘ In what way might it have been profitable ? ’ |
| 2 | I said could it have been continuous rain ? |
| 3 | Could it have been one of these specimens that succumbed to the examining blade of the paleopathologist 's knife ? |
| 4 | Could it have been one of the footpads who tried to ambush me earlier that day ? |
| 5 | ‘ And how could it have been important enough to justify half-a-dozen murders ? ’ |
| 6 | Only on pagan sites converted into other uses by Christians would it have been necessary to carry out a purification ceremony involving the use of the Chi-Rho symbol . |
| 7 | Would it have been better if , like other men , he had not told her ? |
| 8 | Would it have been better with another family on board ? |
| 9 | But would it have been better ? |
| 10 | Would it have been better had you gone to the other jobs ? |
| 11 | Yes I did know she was going to be in Caracas and No I did n't tell you and Yes that was wrong but would it have been better if I 'd told you ? |
| 12 | Would it have been better if it had not been a corner ball ? |
| 13 | ‘ Now , Mr Jordan , would it have been possible for someone to get into your shed on Friday night , remove the Scapegoat and substitute a body dressed in the Scapegoat 's clothes ? ’ |
| 14 | Nor would it have been possible to ask , nor even to rely on any information which might have been forthcoming , since Amabel , who always retired to bed for the duration of her own " monthly curse " had said nothing more to the point than , " Darling , I must beg of you never to speak of this to anyone , when Gemma at the age of fourteen had first seen evidence of hers . |
| 15 | She said : ‘ Would it have been strong enough ? ’ |
| 16 | Nor in the light of experience and knowledge available prior to this accident would it have been reasonable to envisage that internal pressures could exist in the tail structure . ’ |
| 17 | Still less would it have been true if Labour had formed a government . |
| 18 | Nor would it have been true , for I greatly feared death , suspecting myself to be damned . |
| 19 | Would it have been easier if she had n't seen Lucy almost every day for four years going into or out of the office next door ? |
| 20 | Would it have been different under a Labour government ? |
| 21 | But would it have been different if Mrs Thatcher had had a spell on income support ? or if she had ever lugged a buggy , baby , toddler and bags of shopping on and off her infrequent , deregulated buses ? |
| 22 | Lord of The Flies Critical Essay : Would it have been different had girls been on the island ? |
| 23 | Would he , in fact , have turned in earlier , or would it have been another near miss or accident in the making ? |
| 24 | In Ireland last week , we were accused of writing a ‘ dirty ’ book for vulgar gain ( would it have been any better if we 'd done it for charity ? ) and worse , of racism . |
| 25 | But would it have been fair to point all this out as they nuzzled one another on some Anglian plage and assumed I was n't noticing ? |
| 26 | Nor can it have been pleasing to the Poitevin nobles . |