Example sentences of "[modal v] have been [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When William Burnes died at Lochlea in 1784 , John Tennant lent a horse to help to convey his body to Alloway for burial in the grounds of Kirk Alloway and memories of Alloway and the ruined kirk must have been recalled by both families when they met on that day . |
| 32 | The keys must have been lost for some time . |
| 33 | It must have been written by some exasperated editor receiving streams of verbose articles from amateur authors . |
| 34 | The frightening film of the American Airlines DC-10 from which an engine fell clear during take-off from Chicago must have been shown on more television screens than any other comparable occurrence , and so it goes on until we reach the most horrifying event involving the South Korean Boeing 747 which was deliberately shot down north of Japan by Soviet Russian fighters with the loss of 269 lives . |
| 35 | Many colonnades , staircases , doorways and corridors open on to the Central Courts and , if the bull dance really did take place there , they must have been protected in some way from the rampaging bulls . |
| 36 | Police have asked neighbours to be alert as vehicles must have been used in many of the burglaries committed . |
| 37 | One of the slave-builders must have been incarcerated behind this hatch as a sacrifice to good fortune — with the chance of squirming his way up that curving conduit to some high exit point , a well-nigh impossible task when fettered . |
| 38 | Childeric must have been subjected to many of the influences which were to impinge on his son . |
| 39 | It must have been rebuilt on many occasions , the present building and adjoining mill house dating from around 1726 . |
| 40 | At least by the time that the friend heard the click it must have been settled on that occasion that the electron 's spin was " up " . |
| 41 | The child 's corpse must have been loaded onto some form of transport that had been waiting beyond the yard . |
| 42 | Gist of this intelligence ( with , of course , the utmost care to protect its source ) must have been conveyed to all regional commands in the United Kingdom , and from there filtered downward , for this moment coincided with the time when Leslie declared his willingness to perform almost any task in order to help repel invaders . |
| 43 | The mare might have been kicked by another horse . |
| 44 | Rolle also hints that he might have been damaged in some way . |
| 45 | The Bill might have been opposed in all its stages in both Houses of parliament , and altogether you would have had to spend about £1,000 or £1,200 . |
| 46 | If she had n't been so irritable and on edge , Camille might have been flattered by this notion . |
| 47 | By 1988 it was claimed that £200 million of Urban Development Grant and Urban Regeneration Grant had successfully ‘ levered ’ more than £800 million of private investment into the inner cities ( although how much of the latter sum might have been invested in any case is difficult to say ) . |
| 48 | This new virus now might have been mutated in such a way that the er antibodies which are present at , at the moment , are not able to recognize and destroy this new virus . |
| 49 | I was for resolving this phenomenon into ship-wrecks , and supposing that they might have been flung on these coasts out of some unhappy vessels ; but this solution of mine is absolutely denied , from the frequency and regularity of the appearance of these seeds . " |
| 50 | I was for resolving this phenomenon into ship-wrecks , and supposing that they might have been flung on these coasts out of some unhappy vessels ; but this solution of mine is absolutely denied , from the frequency and regularity of the appearance of these seeds . " |
| 51 | This suggests that the violence might have been caused by these high hormone levels , not conditioning . |
| 52 | What might have been anticipated by some as a passage of tedious monotony was welcomed by Gould as an opportunity lull of excitement and discovery . |
| 53 | ‘ You are not suggesting that she might have been sacrificed in some demoniacal ritual , are you , Burney ? ’ |
| 54 | ‘ Well sir , we figured that the beer mats might have been stolen by some rival bar-owner . |
| 55 | Annoyed that his cover might have been jeopardized for such a trivial reason , Coleman left Sasser 's office with the intention of coding an immediate complaint to Donleavy — only to run into Micheal T. Hurley on the stairway . |
| 56 | His eyes gleamed with what might have been taken for some inner illumination . |
| 57 | Had the attack been properly organized and coordinated , these vital heights might have been taken with little loss and the successes consolidated . |
| 58 | His staff was much too small to give a reasonable teaching course , and the absence of serious opposition that might have been provided by another English veterinary school meant there was no great stimulus to change . |
| 59 | The photo might have been modelled on those sent by the Red Brigades during the Moro kidnapping , but where those middle-class intellectuals had used the centre-left Repubblica to mark the date , Ruggiero Miletti was holding the Nazione , just the kind of paper which a bunch of good Catholic boys like the kidnappers would choose . |
| 60 | It was obvious to them that Danzig , up to the advent of the Nazis , had been far freer from racial strife and entrenched national rivalry than might have been expected in such a complex and explosive economic and political environment . |