Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb mod] have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Artai could not have declared any public intent to marry Jehana , Alexei realised , or it would have been the talk of Kinsai. probably there were rumours — nothing was ever entirely a secret at court — and he glanced again at the women who clustered at the other end of the pool . |
| 2 | It can not occur through any systematic movement or it would have been predicted . |
| 3 | The Government obviously do not have such a plan , or it would have been mentioned today . |
| 4 | Nevertheless it tasted excellent , or it may have been the dry French cider from my waterbottle that improved the taste . |
| 5 | Under his breath , so that Earl could not hear him , he murmured ‘ Holy cow ! ’ ( ’ or it may have been a little more graphic ’ ) . |
| 6 | For some reason both the adjoining clerical incumbents wished to call his soul their own ; or it may have been his jumble that they wanted . |
| 7 | It may have been jet lag or it may have been the excitement . |
| 8 | But there they were , in their thousands , or it may have been millions , and they were a horrific threat to the survival of humanity on this planet . |
| 9 | Or it may have been no more than a ruse to exert pressure and force him to reconsider . |
| 10 | Or it may have been through passive smoking . |
| 11 | A year or so later , or it may have been an hour , I crumpled up four sheets of paper and threw them to the floor , and started another , and I was there . |
| 12 | Again on Bruno Zanardi 's restoration of Antelami 's ‘ Months ’ , Fiorella Minervino wrote that the marble had lost its characteristic surface veining ; in her opinion , this was probably due to the use of a chemical solvent to extract the metallic salts which had appeared on the surface , or it may have been caused by some kind of abrasive treatment . |
| 13 | Or it may have been that the shares were not purchased but were subscribed for and were issued to the investors by Euramco . |
| 14 | Or it may have been that , looking at that blueprint form , some of them saw that something more could be done with it . |
| 15 | Fifteen minutes later , or it may have been twenty , I stood staring at a caged lift : the chest-flexing iron lattice , the accordion doors . |
| 16 | What this would have looked like is sometimes difficult to imagine — it may have been no more than a larger-than-average farmstead , or it may have been a palace such as those found at Yeavering and Cheddar . |
| 17 | Or it may have been the sweet tyranny of his mother 's childhood rules , never quite outgrown , which he tried to recreate in his rigid adult life . |
| 18 | But then you flew back from Calgary I think or it may have been Vancouver . |
| 19 | Or it might have been his membership of that dashing elite , the air fighters of World War I. |
| 20 | The child was perhaps a year old and was engaged in beating his — or it might have been her — mother about the shoulders with tiny chubby fists . |
| 21 | It might have been a technical failure or it might have been an action on the part of the operating crew or , indeed , a combination of both . |
| 22 | Many observers noticed the force and weight of his presence ; it might be called dedication , or ambition , or it might have been something below the level of consciousness which propelled him forward . |
| 23 | Or it might have been that he saw , in the younger screenplay writer , someone before whom all false reticence could be cast aside . |
| 24 | Or it might have been brought by an angel . |
| 25 | Or it might have been a bigger concern than I ken . |
| 26 | and then while he was upstairs seeing and helping his wife , then the the stove blew up downstairs , now that might have been the house saving from a real disaster whilst attacking his wife in a minor way , or it might have been pure coincidence . |
| 27 | Character A — or it might have been B again , for he seemed to be a right prune — had left late or had left early travelling at half the speed of the other . |
| 28 | Or it could have been brought in and substituted . |
| 29 | It could have-been yesterday or it could have been the day before . ’ |
| 30 | Or it could have been a trick of the light . |