Example sentences of "things [modal v] have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things may have been different under another Minister , or under the same one in happier and healthier days , but it seems doubtful . |
| 2 | She made it sound as if the two things should have been similar . |
| 3 | But it was the thought of how things should have been between them . |
| 4 | Had he not been turned down by a local industrial company , things might have been different . |
| 5 | Things might have been a little different if Tony Crosland had still been at the Department of Education and Science , but I doubt it . |
| 6 | If he 'd only told them he 'd just had a baby , things might have been different . |
| 7 | During the Pleistocene , however , things might have been different : as the ice sheets moved further south they brought tundra conditions to latitudes as far south as Spain , and the resulting climate and environment at these lower latitudes would have been unlike anything known today because of differences in rainfall and solar incidence . |
| 8 | Browse in the gift shop or enjoy refreshment in the restaurant , and you can reflect for a few moments on how different things might have been without the events of 1066 . |
| 9 | Things might have been different if there had been more consultation with industry people across the board . |
| 10 | We may feel today that things might have been better planned , and that it is a great pity that what now looks like the decisive contribution of England to world history should have been carried through with so much muddle and mess . |
| 11 | But things might have been different if Brian had landed the job of England manager . |
| 12 | ‘ Things might have been handled a bit better — but it 's between him and the team . ’ |
| 13 | To suggest that things might have been otherwise had important individuals or groups behaved differently is to ignore the situation within which they were acting , their perceptions of it and the traditions within which their outlook had been formed . |
| 14 | The emergence of a popular culture confirmed many fears and yet there was some compensation in the fact that things might have been far worse . |
| 15 | Theorists who reflect about the ways in which things might have been different are bound to consider the question of what might have made events take another course . |
| 16 | To justify his view that there are ways in which things might have been different while at the same time avoiding voluntarism , Poulantzas argues that there are two sources of valid counterfactuals . |
| 17 | However tough things might have been at home , there 's usually an underlying familiarity of experience that allows family members to overcome or endure difficulties . |
| 18 | But though she had wished things might have been different , she consoled herself with the knowledge that it could come to nothing . |
| 19 | Emily went pink , reflecting that if she 'd had charge of this youth in his formative years , things might have been different . |
| 20 | Obscurely , she felt that if only she had known before things might have been different , but then common sense told her that yes , things might have been different : probably they would have been worse . |
| 21 | Obscurely , she felt that if only she had known before things might have been different , but then common sense told her that yes , things might have been different : probably they would have been worse . |
| 22 | You did not understand then and things might have been awkward . ’ |
| 23 | And if some malicious god had n't decreed it was Slane she had to go to , or Slane where he lived , things might have been very different . |
| 24 | Such simulations , based on observed system behaviour , can tell us how things might have been if we are looking at unrepeatable , past , events or how the system might behave in the future , if the transition probabilities remain unaltered . |
| 25 | All right , he was what he was : he was n't fundamentally a nice man , yet , had he been greeted in the beginning by this old woman as Andrew Jones had , how different things might have been . |
| 26 | Of course , it was a good toss to win and things might have been different if England had batted first . |
| 27 | At least eight people were killed and many more injured ; but things could have been much worse . |
| 28 | But like every artist , one can always look back and see where things could have been improved . |
| 29 | What things could have been done |
| 30 | what things could have been like |