Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] have be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it 's a bit frightening when you think a pensioner 's money may have been in that account at thirteen fifty on a , on ten thousand invested , and now they 're down to seven hundred . |
| 2 | Although he had many substantial patrons , Evesham may have been in financial straits in the mid-1620s . |
| 3 | If so , Cnut 's attack on Ely may have been after 1016 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | She estimated what the size of the labour force in the United States would have been in 1960 by making two assumptions : ( a ) if death rates had not declined since 1900 , the labour force would have been over 13 million less in 1960 ; ( b ) if death rates had declined from 1900–1920 but remained the same level after that , the labour force would have been 6 million smaller in 1960 . |
| 6 | However , due to the short notice , Randalstown would have been without four key players on May 15 which was pencilled in as the reserve date . |
| 7 | However widespread such an attitude may have been in popular piety ( and perhaps it has been widespread ) , and though it may be thinkable to a Latin American theologian today , it is hardly orthodox . |
| 8 | Marley must have been like that himself . |
| 9 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Stallholder Pete would have been among those killed and Wicksy would have been paralysed . |
| 12 | If the bands are reshuffled , the trials will have been of little practical value . |
| 13 | ‘ Unless the Government acts to free students from this sort of red fascism , then all the words of the Education Reform Act will have been in vain . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | An argument for the co-evolution of dispersers and their trees is that they , in contrast , avoid the seeds , though in the past such seeds may have been in some way indigestible , promoting the relationship of today . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , the burial period must have been between 1400 and 1000 B.C. , a time far distant from the legendary date of the battle between Coilus and Fergus . |
| 17 | In this case we can calculate that the average output per obverse die must have been between 23,000 and 47,000 . |
| 18 | Coming back , as always , to the Jurassic , one has only to compare the 30 ammonite zones represented in one foot of sediment in Sicily with the 15 000 feet representing a single zone in Oregon , to realise how startlingly different rates of deposition must have been in different places . |
| 19 | The cry should have been for real money , the only means by which genuine choice can be exercised and discrimination on the basis of age eliminated . |
| 20 | If this is not done , a return to pre-civilisation conditions could be mankind-s fate , and all the sufferings of thousands of years would have been in vain . |
| 21 | As the income of the much smaller Missenden Abbey was given as £160 , compared with £262 net in 1535 , its goods may have been worth much more than the £140 assessed . |
| 22 | He added that disaffected factions within the BBC opposed to Mr Birt 's programme of reforms may have been behind some of the attempts to destabilise him . |
| 23 | Cheques should have been in last week . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In our view , routine casework unsupported by an active programme of service development would have been of little value and would probably have degenerated into a frustrating cycle of ‘ patch and mend ’ crisis management . |
| 26 | Welcome as the Cabinet 's new policy must have been to some Ministers in the Lords , such as Lord Pakenham , then Minister of Civil Aviation and an abolitionist to his fingertips , voting for suspension can not have been an agreeable experience for the unyieldingly retentionist Lord Chancellor , Jowitt . |
| 27 | She had said ‘ the rest of you ’ and I had never heard her so distance herself before , but what astonished me was the realisation that my father must have been at that party , must have returned with my mother to the villa in the small hours , must have been aware of me in my little white pyjamas and Panama hat . |
| 28 | How many people could have been under such a constant strain , for so long ? |
| 29 | I do n't think that chair could have been in that book Brian . |
| 30 | The group met by the patriarchs would have been amongst earlier settlements of Aegean traders . |