Example sentences of "[modal v] have be [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should 've been first thing in morning if that would happen . |
| 2 | Although the original bond rules state that transfers ‘ must have been first approved by the Club Committee ’ this appears never to have happened , although at some stage the rule was amended to apply only to ‘ non-member ’ transferees . |
| 3 | ‘ It must have been last night ! ’ |
| 4 | What might have been first visualised as a basic low cost word processor might have transformed into a full blown all bells and whistles application that has spreadsheets and databases built in , yet , if you 're still using the first release , you could be losing out . |
| 5 | It was necessary to show that at least some of them might have been first acquired through the will , in order to satisfy a desire , or to relieve a disagreeable sensation . |
| 6 | But it seems to be a lot less than it might have been last year , I mean I , do we know how many that 's , we 're talking about ? |
| 7 | Two or three out of every ten who came to live in south London were north Londoners who had merely crossed the river , but of course they themselves may have been second generation immigrants to the capital . |
| 8 | They spent two years organising the site , getting volunteers from not only Britain , but abroad as well , and making sure that while the battle may have been seventeenth century , twentieth century comforts were still close at hand . |
| 9 | The standard security measure would have been second nature to me , on leaving any planet , if I had n't been burdened with so may excitements and anxieties . |
| 10 | ‘ Vitor came third and would have been first if his car had n't hit fuel problems on the final lap , ’ Simon continued , his mind fixed on the race . |
| 11 | and if Leicester had beaten I forgot who it was , whoever they drew against , they would have been third . |
| 12 | ‘ I would have expected more ; Particularly on the shift , which would have been next to the wound . ’ |