Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] [modal v] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would have liked to stay longer , but realised that would have been greedy . |
| 2 | Both migrants and non-enrollers believed more could have been done to help . |
| 3 | Those of the gentry and clergy who perceived this may have been driven by instinct and may have over-reacted . |
| 4 | Mr Burns said he did not speak to them about their past life because he felt that would have been ‘ insensitive ’ . |
| 5 | I thought that would have been a good night in the King 's Hall tonight . |
| 6 | Apart from My Private Idaho which er I thought that might have been |
| 7 | Mr Rose wished to shake him , and knew this would have been unprofessional . |
| 8 | At first I thought this must have been intended for someone else and began grubbing about in the wastepaper basket to find the envelope . |
| 9 | For all I knew these could have been the men behind the call to my father , the men come to shoot my brother . |
| 10 | Well it 's just that dad said he passed a great big piece of wood , I said that must have been painful ! |
| 11 | Oliver said that could have been easily accomplished by telling Shildon where they really were and if it were Shildon she had heard going through a desk in the typists ' room he must already have found out . |
| 12 | Two of the local clowns , Richard Clarke ( Mary 's son ) and Ian Cross , who had lived in Bellerby all their lives , said this would have been unthinkable at one time — when they were children everybody knew everybody else , and what went on . |
| 13 | The ‘ oohs ’ and ‘ ahs ’ of reverence which greeted this would have been the envy of any priest or preacher . |
| 14 | He suggested this might have been because at the time an aircraft 6km up was dropping laser-guided bombs onto the next platform ( or target as they are usually known ) . |