Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there may only have been one clock in the town where they worked and that would have been on the town hall or the church . |
| 2 | Charlie stared out at the open fields that must once have been productive farmland . |
| 3 | His hands were very full with arrangements for his attack on Normandy , and there must also have been many discussions about the terms on which he would be willing to make peace with the papacy . |
| 4 | On the first of these there must inevitably have been some continuation of the raising of teacher-awareness initiated by the involvement of teachers in the library committee and in making submissions to it for inclusion in the proposal . |
| 5 | It must surely have been that quality , suggestive of significance , which drew so many writers and designers to vernacular styles , in both the later Victorian and the Edwardian periods . |
| 6 | Stiff with pride — which she was now sick and tired of being told was a Leo trait — and buoyed up by the certain knowledge that it would have been morally indefensible for her to desert her father , Laura had taken some weeks to realise that there must surely have been another way for them to solve their problems . |
| 7 | There must evidently have been some panic to get the depôt clear in time to reopen for service cars . |
| 8 | The authority , if it existed , must therefore have been actual authority . |
| 9 | The authority , if it existed , must therefore have been actual authority . |
| 10 | There may just have been some hope of effecting change through organization , especially when the numbers of women were still low ( about 300 at the end of the 18805 ) , though the means chosen were not welcomed by the rank and file of the men 's union . |
| 11 | He might just have been another guitar player who ended up playing back-up for a lot of people , which was what he was doing in America . ’ |
| 12 | Nuadu glanced at this and saw that there might once have been verdant greenery , perhaps even a small forest . |
| 13 | The unlawfulness was generally to be found in the offence of unlawful assembly , but it might also have been another offence such as nuisance caused by obstruction of the highway . |
| 14 | Some gorges may once have been underground caverns , the roofs of which have collapsed . |
| 15 | Sometimes the ultimate question is only in theory left to the public authority ; for example , in some cases of review for jurisdictional errors of law or fact in which it is clear that if the authority had got the law or the facts right , its decision would have been different and could only have been one way . |
| 16 | There could scarcely have been two people more different from each other in character : the one motivated by a keen sense of order , rationality , and discipline ; the other driven by his emotions and whimsical fancy . |
| 17 | It could just have been bad luck . ’ |
| 18 | It was exciting end-to-end entertainment and it could easily have been two goals each after the opening quarter . |
| 19 | Not only was it the first death , but it could easily have been little Enoch , or Jane . |
| 20 | In the event it was Alaska which became the 49th State of the Union ( in 1959 ) but it could easily have been Coca-Colonial Britain . |
| 21 | It seems that even if you have loved and been loved , there could well have been some loss to bear in the recent past . |
| 22 | His harrying of Essex in 994 could well have been this second occasion , and if so the first may have been the Maldon campaign in 991 . |
| 23 | In the early stages we started off with perhaps Minor schools which could almost have been Major ones , because you were just trying to find any school that had got some kind of life , or interest , or things happening … really in many ways it was rather a matter of chance because of the way it happened at the time . |
| 24 | Without the work they did , I could never have been Prime Minister , others could never have been cabinet ministers , nor would we have as many women members of parliament as we have today . |
| 25 | There may also have been other reasons why he decided to move . |
| 26 | There may also have been certain conditions of the advance ( eg that a woodworm infestation shall be treated before completion , that certain repairs shall have been carried out or a deduction made from the mortgage loan until they have been ) . |
| 27 | However , there may also have been English precedent and inspiration for the adoption of a second crown — notably in Edgar 's second , " imperial " , coronation at Bath in 973 . |
| 28 | There may also have been earlier differences in the decision whether to take ‘ no further action ’ after arrest , or indeed in the decision by the police to arrest . |
| 29 | In the non-chronicle sources there are suggestions of rivalry over Calais , where Hastings had replaced Rivers as lieutenant in 1471 , and there may also have been some friction over the Ferrers inheritance , although this does not seem to have been a major issue . |
| 30 | In the non-chronicle sources there are suggestions of rivalry over Calais , where Hastings had replaced Rivers as lieutenant in 1471 , and there may also have been some friction over the Ferrers inheritance , although this does not seem to have been a major issue . |