Example sentences of "there [modal v] have [be] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did the same to the soldiers ' barracks and police stations ; there may have been time for the policemen to read seventy-five years ago but not today . |
| 2 | If the surface of the earth was covered to a depth of one metre in protein molecules , each one different from every other one , and if each molecule changed into another one once a second , and had done so since the origin of the earth , there would have been time to try out only a minute fraction of the possible sequences . |
| 3 | There would have been time . |
| 4 | ( However , Peter Burge , the former Australian batsman who was the ICC 's match referee throughout this series , said afterwards that there would have been time for one over if a wicket had fallen in the same Tufnell over . ) |
| 5 | But it was Friday she did it , and Thursday we were expecting her , so there would have been time when she had . |