Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | By the middle of 1802 , as the family house and shop passed into other hands , Ben was left alone with only sisters for company ; Elizabeth , the eldest , had very recently married , and little brother must have been in imminent danger of succumbing to the petticoat government of Mary and Sarah . |
| 32 | It must have been in these years that Henry II and Eleanor became increasingly estranged . |
| 33 | This transhumance to distant resources is often thought of only in connection with more primitive and foreign communities , but it was certainly common in Anglo-Saxon and medieval times and must have been in earlier periods as well ( Figs. 11 , 59 and 93 ) . |
| 34 | If this prophecy conveys anything of the sentiments of the Crowland community at the time , it must have been from congenial company hostile to Penda 's descendants that Aethelbald emerged to establish himself as king in Mercia , if not when Ceolred died ( ASC A , s.a. , 716 ) then certainly when an otherwise unknown Ceolwald , who may have succeeded Ceolred , died or was driven out . |
| 35 | Said it 'll have been in all day . |
| 36 | Fenella thought that it was a pity that Caspar was so scared of the giants , because he knew so much about Tara that he might have been of considerable help . |
| 37 | IT WAS a case of what might have been for Scottish trio Cathy Panton-Lewis , Julie Forbes and Gillian Stewart in the opening round of the Republic of China Open at Chang Gung in Taipei yesterday . |
| 38 | What little opportunity there might have been for careful integration , had been lost . |
| 39 | The adoption , for instance , of Darwinian views of evolution depended not simply on the intellectual breakthrough of a brilliant mind but on the conjuncture of social movements that made these propositions more acceptable then than they might have been at other periods . |
| 40 | Otherwise he might have been in serious trouble . |
| 41 | If his controller had taken her seriously , he might have been in real trouble . |
| 42 | The moonless sky was overcast , and gliding into an opaque blackness we might have been in outer space . |
| 43 | A subsidy assessment of £40 suggests that this completes the account of his lands ; any there might have been in other counties can not be deduced from the available evidence . |
| 44 | The end result might only be a slight scratch , but the potential might have been in that situation for something a lot worse . |
| 45 | Ours went , I think , to 2 , 5 and 7 ; the other floors might have been in another building , or another town . |
| 46 | WHO DO YOU THINK YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN PREVIOUS LIVES ? |
| 47 | The tightly packed schiltrons might have been in some danger if the enemy 's Welsh archers had been used at once ; but Edward or his advisers thought they could settle things swiftly by an all-out cavalry charge . |
| 48 | The clouds could have been at any height from fifty feet to six miles . |
| 49 | Could have been on that boardwalk thing that we spoke about just across the road . |
| 50 | She became aware at an early stage that there was an entirely different way of life available not far outside Baldersdale , perhaps more appealing to her , but it could have been on another planet . |
| 51 | Very much , in fact the chances were coming your way before the goals went in , you could have been on level terms an awful lot earlier . |
| 52 | In Harry 's case , a pre-retirement course could have been of great value in encouraging him to accept his impending retirement and helping him decide how to redirect his energies before he finished working . |
| 53 | This book is useful but could have been of more value if it had been more clearly grounded in practice . |
| 54 | Had it been broad enough to have included the purpose of the great organised movement its contribution could have been of historical value . |
| 55 | I realized that I could have been in deep trouble there : I came close to inflicting a serious injury on Frank Dick . |
| 56 | The company came in for quite a bit of stick with their new version of the Escort and if the Mondeo had not been well received they could have been in real trouble . |
| 57 | She had said it was her niece because the girl was young and had black hair and because who else but Nora Fanshawe could have been in that car with her parents ? |
| 58 | I do n't think that chair could have been in that book Brian . |
| 59 | Carr , who went the distance with Wharton last time , protested about the stoppage , after 2min 7sec of the eighth round , but if referee Dave Parris had allowed the fight to continue the Australian could have been in serious trouble . |
| 60 | If it had been left any longer he could have been in serious trouble . |