Example sentences of "it [modal v] have be do " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , of course , it may have been done . |
| 2 | However , it should not be thought that any assistance given to a competitor by the employee is necessarily a breach of his duty , for it may have been done with the employer 's authority , though this will be a rare occurrence . |
| 3 | It should have been done sooner , he wrote , but the truth is it would always have been too late . |
| 4 | The abolition of car tax was a bold move but it should have been done in the Budget last March , as the motor industry had asked . |
| 5 | If anything permanent were to be achieved , it should have been done under Rufus . |
| 6 | Looks as if it should have been done hours ago , if you ask me . |
| 7 | So , what did you think of the adverts ? of Decommissioning and Waste Management 's Transport Technology Department felt that the idea of the high-profile campaign was ‘ good , but it should have been done years ago ’ . |
| 8 | It should have been done at once ; now the moment of surprise is lost . ’ |
| 9 | Since no minister would authorise a warrant for such tapping it must have been done illegally . |
| 10 | It must be Well it must be it must have been done and er Alison 's in involved in that is n't she ? |
| 11 | I believe it must have been done outside the stable . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ None of the brothers ever heard any disturbance in the night , ’ said Owen sombrely , ‘ but in the night it must have been done , between Lauds and Prime . |
| 13 | yeah it could 've be done better |
| 14 | OK , that 's an isolated episode , but had a feminist film crew gone out to make a documentary about wife battering I do n't think it could have been done more successfully . |
| 15 | They expected everyone to do something , and then expected to tell them how it could have been done better . |
| 16 | " It could have been done years ago , but nobody was really interested in it . " |
| 17 | Yeah , I mean , it could have been done with real honesty , but |
| 18 | I mean it could have been done if we 'd got a go-ahead . |
| 19 | ’ It would n't be an overstatement to say we 've carried near on a hundred tons of material of one sort or another up this driveway to our house , whereas it could have been done in a couple of days with permission to drive up . ’ |
| 20 | I had a fleeting thought of what fun it would have been to do this trip with Rosemary . |
| 21 | … most of the theft-murders that have resulted in capital convictions since the Act have been committed by stupid persons , who had not the sense to see how easily they could be caught , and how much safer it would have been to do the job in a different way . |
| 22 | If he had not been called away it would have been done by now . |
| 23 | I 'm not saying that people would have never changed their ideas but if it would have been done in the manner that it would have been done in in the first place and if people would have been told about their future lives and if people had been , would 've accepted what was going on in light of all the decisions that have been taken previously regarding the merger issue . |
| 24 | I 'm not saying that people would have never changed their ideas but if it would have been done in the manner that it would have been done in in the first place and if people would have been told about their future lives and if people had been , would 've accepted what was going on in light of all the decisions that have been taken previously regarding the merger issue . |