Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [vb pp] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He teaches you how to write wonderful , metaphysical narratives , but they could have been written any time this century . |
| 2 | Almost all the work was done by manual labour alone and the order which Wade sent to Edinburgh Castle in 1726 for ‘ 94 shovells , 82 pickaxes , 42 spades , 3 iron crows ’ is typical and could have been repeated many times over . |
| 3 | Horne could have been murdered any time between dusk and dawn . |
| 4 | A serpentine commode , the central section of which pulled out as a silver table , and a Russian mirror of the 1790s supported on twisting ormolu snakes could have been sold many times over . |
| 5 | The British tranche was none the less fully subscribed , but shares on sale in Europe were oversubscribed and those offered in New York could have been sold four times over . |
| 6 | Indeed , the documents themselves could have been transcribed many times through the ages . |
| 7 | She may have been killed any time in the last two days . ’ |
| 8 | A British Cox 's apple may have been sprayed 12 times and dipped in fungicide before it reaches your fruit bowl . |
| 9 | You must bear in mind that you are dealing only with probabilities and — who knows ? — the examiner may have been changed next time . |
| 10 | Along the riverside , hay would have been cropped several times through the summer , and then , at the end of the summer , the animals who had been on the fallow would be turned on to both the meadowland and the stubble of the arable before coming into the paddocks by the village over the winter , to be stall-fed on the hay cut from the meadow . |