Example sentences of "[modal v] have been [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first thing that strikes me is that my aunt — an almost complete stranger as far as I was concerned — should have been there at all , within the family circle where no friend or neighbour was allowed , and thus in a privileged position to make personal remarks of the type which would not have been tolerated from any other quarter . |
| 2 | By now you should have been out on several practice walks and determined your state of fitness . |
| 3 | Occasionally it is explained that they had already died — and given the still short life-expectancy of the period this must have been so in many cases . |
| 4 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 5 | That might have been so in this nation , but it was not the case throughout the empire . |
| 6 | Carrie suddenly said , ‘ Your mum and I were worried about you , Seb , but all my dad could keep saying was , ‘ It 's a good job I managed to reach you when I did , or you 'd have been up at that farmhouse for another week . ’ ’ |
| 7 | The floor of these forests was , at best , only sparsely vegetated and great areas may have been entirely without any living leaves . |
| 8 | Pumpido had to make two saves while neither of the Italians need have been there at all . |
| 9 | If the SRs had achieved power , ‘ their actions would have been exactly like those of the Bolshevik Party . ’ |
| 10 | Normally , she would have been up for several hours and written a couple of thousand words . |
| 11 | ‘ The fuzz would have been on to that straight away . |
| 12 | The Labour government 's priority from 1964 onwards was the servicing of the economy in response to demands made on them by capital ; in so far as working-class girls could have contributed to this , it would have been only in those unskilled jobs for which greater or better education was not required . |