Example sentences of "[conj] she [modal v] have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is obviously irrelevant to speculate on what if anything was in the mind of the clerk or other subordinate officer who actually received the money , or in the mind of the officer ( whoever he or she may have been ) who paid it into the bank to the defendants ' credit . |
| 2 | If you already have your own company sick pay scheme , it must pay the employee at least what he or she would have been entitled to on SSP . |
| 3 | It was a good thing she had n't known or she would have been self-conscious . |
| 4 | She had her difficulties , too , or she would have been with him by this ; but she was as much the prisoner of circumstances as he , and could not well take ship until she had established a firm and safe regime for her young son . |
| 5 | Chris had to hold on to the grab handle of the jeep or she would have been flung out . |
| 6 | Choose one of the four and try to work out what he or she must have been doing at each stage of the carnival . |
| 7 | ‘ Whoever it is has presumably been coming regularly since last November so he or she must have been seen by other people . |
| 8 | Or she could have been raped . |
| 9 | Rain rallied although she would have been happy to stay where she was , lying on the bed . |
| 10 | Although she might have been wise to add that even the life of a Television Presenter 2nd Class is a doddle compared to packing frozen peas , doing a 12-hour nursing shift in an understaffed hospital ward or for that matter being married to David Mellor . |
| 11 | Another , after describing her loveless relationship with an unsatisfactory husband , is amazed at Jim Dixon 's remark that she would have been better off if she had n't married . |
| 12 | But she thought that she would have been glad of someone to talk about her new plans with , all the same . |
| 13 | Even at this early stage of contact between white and black in Britain , it is clear that she would have been building on already existing racial caricature and prejudice rather than creating an artificial tide of hostility against black people . |
| 14 | She was so devoted to the principle that beauty is a frivolity and a sign of sin that she would have been ashamed to have it in the house . |
| 15 | Had she arrived in the department within some five minutes of her cardiac arrest , it is much more likely that she would have been resuscitated … |
| 16 | He identified several actors caught by the camera in poses of dramatic intensity and had judged from the frown between her heavy brows and the unsuitability of her responses that she would have been more enlightened had she worn spectacles . |
| 17 | He felt her breathing change again , anticipating pleasure ; knew , without looking , that she would have been newly aroused by his ministrations ; that her nipples would be stiff , her eyes wide with expectation . |
| 18 | Sometimes she had the oddest feeling that she would have been able to confide in Paul , to pour out to him the whole bloody silly story without causing him to bat so much as an eyelid . |
| 19 | I accept from Mr that she would have been a trainee manager for some part of that time and I assess her salary as being something like seven thousand pounds net . |
| 20 | Had she been expecting any apology , though , Fabia realised then that she would have been disappointed for , ‘ Hrm , ’ was all he grunted , and , handing the letter back , he scrutinised her with a hard look , and Fabia had the feeling that he thought that she was the one in the wrong ! |
| 21 | To herself she had to admit that she would have been willing to go further than talk . |
| 22 | Her boyfriend Doug Robertson is worried that she may have been forced into an arranged marriage . |
| 23 | Had there ever been a possibility that she may have been following in the footsteps of Linda Rooke and , ahem , disrobing ? |
| 24 | It is understood that Mr Major wanted her to be prisons minister , and there was speculation last night that she might have been reluctant to be back in harness with Mr Kenneth Clarke , the Home Secretary , who was her boss at the Health Department during the eggs affair . |
| 25 | ‘ You are not suggesting that she might have been sacrificed in some demoniacal ritual , are you , Burney ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ As you realize , ’ he said , ‘ we have been thinking that she might have been murdered outside the City boundaries , and brought in on a meat barrow . ’ |
| 27 | Although she was not suicidal the therapist agreed that she might have been feeling as if she wanted to die at the time of the overdose . |
| 28 | The possibility that she might have been raped should have made him pause and perhaps pity , but his savage jealousy allowed no room for it . |
| 29 | Death from a drug overdose was the conclusion reached after she committed suicide , though speculation existed that she might have been murdered . |
| 30 | In the first instance decision of Harvey [ 1988 ] Crim.L.R. 241 , a confession of murder made by a psychopathically disordered woman was , it is submitted , rightly excluded when it became apparent that she might have been motivated by a childlike desire to protect her lover , whom she had over-heard confessing to the same offence . |