Example sentences of "[modal v] have [be] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Guardian 's own Milestones Award for long-term creative commitment to the music went to the veteran George Russell , whose greeting from the crowd was as affectionate as it should have been and a services-to-jazz prize sponsored jointly by Wire and Carlsberg/Elephant lager went to John Surman , one of the most gifted members of that talented and ill-rewarded generation of musicians that came between Stan Tracey 's and the new young heroes . |
| 2 | Yet the officially measured real consumption in the past two years has been stronger than it should have been if the official measurement of GDP were accurate . |
| 3 | I suppose it must have been because a string of boyfriends seemed quite willing to spend their last penny on her before going off to the front . |
| 4 | The reason why the House of Lords cut down the meaning of the phrase must have been because the House did not believe that Parliament intended to cover the particular situation . |
| 5 | It might have been that a long time ago , when people believed in prayer . |
| 6 | When passing the 1976 act , it might have been that no particular attention had been paid to a situation in which injuries were sustained before birth , but parliament had clearly stated that a person had to sustain injuries and die from them before relatives could claim damages . |
| 7 | Moreover , if bad management is perceived by the stock market , share prices will be lower than they might have been and a takeover raider may see an opportunity to buy up the company , install a better management , improve profits , and hence make capital gains when share prices subsequently rise . |
| 8 | Charlie 's departure is the first of several , and this event is succeeded by the announcement of a further theme when the rabbi 's thunderings pass over the heads of his congregation and the writer notes : ‘ in later years I would wonder how different my life might have been if a few people , those closest to me , had been frightened — just a little . ’ |
| 9 | We wo n't ever know what might have been if the two had met . |
| 10 | By now , the Amsterdam was heaving much as it might have been when the quays were lined with ships , although probably it was not half so fetid . |
| 11 | But it could have been that the whole truck was a set-up : corral the gringos then fleece them . |
| 12 | It may have been that the editor did n't know how to cut a scene , or that the financiers called in a hack to re-edit the picture . |
| 13 | It has been suggested that the reason for this choice may have been that the longer of the two annual intervals between successive zenith-transits of the sun in the neighbourhood of Copan ( one of the most important Maya cities ) at latitude 15 degrees north is 260 days . |
| 14 | Often in such circumstances , it may have been that the dog was teased in the past , by a stranger who encouraged it to bark by tapping repeatedly on the window , for example . |
| 15 | Or it may have been that the shares were not purchased but were subscribed for and were issued to the investors by Euramco . |
| 16 | It may have been that the Palaeoindians moving through America from |
| 17 | Limited , until recently , to an A4 sheet and with some initial problems in terms of RIP reliability it may have been but the output quality is more than adequate for a wide range of documents . |
| 18 | Alternatively it may have been because a rising number of night visits , increasingly performed before 1990 by deputies , increases health service expenditure as the cost of deputies is eventually reimbursed in the expense element of general practitioner remuneration . |
| 19 | In part this may have been because the trend towards larger-scale workplaces meant children were less likely to see them working ; but there is also evidence of the now growing pressure to retire . |
| 20 | This may have been because the lands of Ruthven were divided between two sons in 1480 . |
| 21 | Last September Mrs McIvor reported that complaints had dropped by 25pc , but that the reduction may have been because the public is not fully aware of her work . |
| 22 | It may have been because the school was voluntary-aided that the head also wanted religious education to have an important place , not so much in shaping the school but in underlining the requirement that everyone should at least think about his or her religious belief . |
| 23 | A few decades ago this would have been a much more controversial question than it is today , because one possible answer would have been that the Universe had always existed , and always would . |
| 24 | But this latter phase would have been when the dinosaurs ' jaw mechanism was much closer to those of modern mammals , or at least very dissimilar to modern reptiles . |
| 25 | As stated in the prototypical CKR , Sea Waybill Rule 4 provides that the sea waybill will be subject to the application of any international convention or national law if such a source of law is compulsorily applicable or would have been if a bill of lading ‘ or similar document of title ’ had been issued . |
| 26 | Shiva had called it that , but in his mouth it had not been the hackneyed expression it would have been if an English person had so referred to it . |
| 27 | It has enabled living standards to be higher and inflation lower than they would have been if the existing current account position had been maintained . |
| 28 | Detailed studies of the cost of such tied aid have indicated that the resultant prices to the recipient country are typically 20 per cent more than they would have been if the country had a free choice in its supplier . |
| 29 | Warner 's only chance with Black Fury would have been if the serious critics had hailed it as a masterpiece and as a great breakthrough , but on this occasion the critics were all too aware of the stresses and strains that had been created by the processing of an authentic theme into a melodramatic format . |
| 30 | I find that whenever I notice some sentence in context , I immediately find myself asking what the effect would have been if the context had been slightly different . |