Example sentences of "that [adj] [modal v] have be " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the absence of any concrete evidence of an agreement it is unlikely that this could have been done . |
| 32 | If it is true that Socrates ( during the relevant period of his life ) is bald , then to say that this could have been false is a contradiction in terms . |
| 33 | On the river side of the High St. there is an area with a strange name , Great Winox , and what this meant we have been unable to discover , but one theory is that this could have been the ancient vineyard . |
| 34 | It is hardly likely that this could have been true of the greatest of them , Whittington , because his father had died with his estate encumbered by an outlawry incurred in a plea of debt . |
| 35 | Deaths were put at 26 , with the advisory that six may have been the result of US fire . |
| 36 | But now , looking back , I think that such must have been the case . |
| 37 | In addition cars are being converted to run on compressed natural gas ( CNG ) and it is hoped that 200,000 will have been modified by 1990 . |
| 38 | In many places the film opened to boycotts and demonstrations but several distributors suggested that these could have been avoided by the use of a more innocent title along the lines of It Happened in Mexico . |
| 39 | For example , the late John Strachey , former Minister of Food , used to contend that had the notorious African Ground Nuts Scheme been placed just 30 miles to the West of the site chosen in Tanganyika ( now Tanzania ) , the climate differed just sufficiently there that all would have been well . |
| 40 | 40 escalators out of service over the 270 stations , but fret not ; it 's estimated that all will have been repaired by 1996 . |
| 41 | Opposition leaders believe that more could have been done in Geneva to find an international solution . |
| 42 | The folly was in failing to realise that more could have been achieved for the nation , within the EEC , by protecting regional interests , than could possibly be achieved for the regions by protecting national interests . |
| 43 | In neither case does a clear picture emerge of the true value of any improvements in relation to the the organisation as a whole , and often the analyst is left with an uncomfortable feeling that more could have been achieved if the situation had been approached more methodically . |
| 44 | Gorbachev , at a press conference on 1 June , expressed the view that more could have been achieved , including a joint statement of political principle and some advance in the discussions on conventional arms , and complained of a certain ‘ contradictoriness ’ in the American position . |