Example sentences of "we [modal v] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , that 's the whole thing , we 've gathered all the information now , we may 've been there an hour , hour an a half , maybe two hours depending upon the appointment so you go back to the office and work on a plan of attack . |
| 2 | Naive teenagers we may have been , but if we had found it we would have been heroes . |
| 3 | If only there had been some worked examples , we may have been able to follow the article . |
| 4 | A further small point : we may have been taught at school to avoid ending written sentences with a preposition , but the above sentence , apart from replacing ‘ commence ’ by ‘ begin ’ , sounds more natural if we do in fact end it with the preposition . |
| 5 | The confidence that often comes with maturity can help us to voice our sexual preferences to our partners in a way which we may have been inhibited about in the past , and the ability to communicate sexual needs gives a good foundation for a satisfying relationship . |
| 6 | It is , however , easy to become anxious about applying the Technique in our day-to-day lives , even though we may have been shown what to do and even though we know that our ordinary sensory perception may be faulty . |
| 7 | We may have been bombarded by our parents with many messages like ‘ You must try harder ’ and ‘ You 're not getting it right . ’ |
| 8 | We may have been brought up to believe that it was selfish to put our own needs before others . |
| 9 | " We may have been followed . |
| 10 | Trade continued to fluctuate in the 1880s , and from now on worries were regularly expressed in the STC : " however reluctant we may have been to realise the position into which we were slowly but surely drifting " the threat was now a permanent reality . " |
| 11 | At school we may have been encouraged , even coerced into running around at sports . |
| 12 | We may have been led to finding those four paragraphs because they are , in fact , the divisions which actually appear in the original and we merely sought additional evidence to support the way the author had divided up his discourse . |
| 13 | ‘ I think we may have been too good over the years , ’ observed their wicketkeeping Vicar . |
| 14 | We will seek reassurance that we are loved in all kinds of bizarre ways rather than acknowledge there were times when we were not loved , or we may never have been loved , or even that we may have been hated . |
| 15 | It is more likely to be about sore things from childhood , which we were not allowed properly to experience or mourn : or we may have been too young in emotional or physical development to cope . |
| 16 | As children we may have been made to feel inadequate , silly or useless because we were never praised . |
| 17 | But she admits there was room for rationalization in other areas ; ‘ at first clothes were never costed properly ; in fact we may have been underpricing ’ , she explained , ‘ but for Laura the most important thing was that everyone was working happily together ’ . |
| 18 | We may have been poor and ignorant in Glasgow but ratting on our friends was something we left to the narks , the narks and the prosperous classes . |
| 19 | And whereas with departmental approach we may have been satisfied with the ability to do extracts down from our corporate mainframe systems in the enterprise approach we 'll look for proper and full integration of the mainframe as an integral part of the environment . |
| 20 | We may have been able to buy our departmental systems from a single vendor . |
| 21 | So whereas in the past we may have been able to think of single user types and single solutions to meet those users . |
| 22 | WE may have been leaked a world exclusive , incidentally , about a split in the Monster Raving Loonies ( for whom , incidentally , Screaming Lord Sutch is standing in three different seats . ) |
| 23 | Because it , in a job that ca n't be done in isolation , to complete this procedure or procedures , we may have been plural , needs er , consultation with er , certainly with Simon 's division in quite a substantial way . |
| 24 | ‘ But surely we ought to have been able to find some sort of compromise … ’ |
| 25 | And I think what we should have is a fifth person which is an outstanding sales award or something like that which covers all regions cos in Europe you woul you would n't vote for any of them would you ? |
| 26 | That 's the sort of thing we should have is n't it . |
| 27 | ‘ When we had ascended a little more than half-way , I was much afraid we should have been doomed to return , on account of the masses of rock , over which we had to climb , beginning to increase in size ; we knew , however , that a descent would have been attended with infinite danger , and being urged on partly by eagerness in our pursuit , but more from a desire to be at the top , we determined to brave every difficulty . |
| 28 | We should have been shown excerpts from Wasps v Leicester and Gloucester v Bath , not to mention Neath v Bath ; though the niggly Harlequins v Wasps match would have put the indulgent enthusiasm even of Starmer-Smith under some strain . |
| 29 | But for the alteration in taxation in the Budget and also the minor alterations in projected expenditure which preceded it , we should have been facing 1968/69 with the identical prospect of a further creation of additional purchasing power . |
| 30 | Over the previous twenty years we had become preoccupied with structural arguments about regions and areas when we should have been concerned about how the service was run . |