Example sentences of "[coord] [modal v] it have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she had suffered a small fit after all , or could it have been a touch of fever ? |
| 2 | Would he , in fact , have turned in earlier , or would it have been another near miss or accident in the making ? |
| 3 | Or would it have been about the same ? |
| 4 | I hate to think what Major Maxim got taught in school — or would it have been the Army ? ’ |
| 5 | Yet the above comparison has never worked , nor could it have been expected to . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Nor would it have been constitutionally possible for me to have become head of the Church of England . ’ |
| 8 | Nor would it have been true , for I greatly feared death , suspecting myself to be damned . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Nor can it have been pleasing to the Poitevin nobles . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | But would it have been better ? |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | No doubt his electoral leadership was of value ; but can it have been of decisive importance ? |