Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We moved to Somerset and I saw nothing of Matt for — I do n't know — it must 've been sixteen years I suppose . |
| 2 | D' you remember I showed you a manuscript — it must 've been some years ago , now — purporting to be by some mariner who remembered an English cargo boat having gone down between us , here at Møn , and Malmo — during the First Schleswig War ? |
| 3 | So that would have been point two five which should have been fifteen minutes . |
| 4 | According to aviation officials the A-300 should have been 1,500 feet higher at the point where it crashed into a jagged mountain face . |
| 5 | There should have been real mountains , or no mountains at all . |
| 6 | The bruises on her tender bottom should have been visual signs of her hatred of him . |
| 7 | That should have been six times nought point two over |
| 8 | There were ten tables , so there should have been ten runners , but only three started . |
| 9 | At precisely what date he went is difficult to determine , for although Ibn Hajar states that he went to Egypt in 778/1376–7 , he follows this immediately with the statement whereas in fact Molla Fenari should have been twenty-seven years of age at that date according to the birthdate given by Ibn Hajar himself . |
| 10 | The exception was Helga , a Euro-slut from Cologne who should have been several grades higher but kept deliberately failing the aptitude tests so as to be with Massimo . |
| 11 | As an agency working in the field of community development , the past two years should have been optimistic ones for Falls Community Council , as new money pumped through BAT has been made available to us and the groups we work for and with . |
| 12 | On a comparison of populations there should have been 4,500 houses built in Derry but only 3,000 had , in fact , been built . |
| 13 | He states however that the fuel was computed at that point and it was determined that there should have been 1,300 lbs remaining on arrival over Goose Bay , giving a reserve of twenty-five to twenty-seven minutes holding at 20,000 feet altitude . |
| 14 | And she went on a party of three , no , no , she went with a party of four friends I think , there were five of them altogether and er she stayed for well er , three nights , four days , or four days , three nights I ca n't remember no , it must have been four days , four nights , three days . |
| 15 | No drinks were served before dinner , so some form of ice-breaking equipment in the way of elaborate and festive flower decorations which everybody could remark upon must have been invaluable weapons in the hands of a conscientious hostess . |
| 16 | Whatever they may have told the pollsters , there must have been countless voters who , as they finally confronted their choice , saw in their mind 's eye the image of a beaming Neil and Glenys standing at the door of Number 10 , and thought , dammit — prompting them to switch back to that decent , straightforward , reliable Mr Major . |
| 17 | Clearly , Harald was a highly-efficient organiser of labour and materials : the felling and transportation of the large quantities of timber used in the camps and at Ravning , for example , must have been major operations in themselves . |
| 18 | Charlie heard the words , ‘ Carry on , Sergeant-Major , ’ and a moment later a man who must have been six feet six inches in height , and whose beer-barrel chest was covered in medal ribbons , took a pace forward . |
| 19 | It must have been six months ago , when he started stealing money from his uncle . ’ |
| 20 | The wave must have been fifteen feet high . |
| 21 | We must have been closer friends than I recall , for as I go through my library 40 years later , I find quite a number of splendid books inscribed ‘ in friendship ’ from Andrew in his scrawling hand , including Henrik van Loon 's ‘ Book of Lives ’ , ‘ One Men 's Meat ’ by E.B. White , ‘ Women in Love ’ by D.H . |
| 22 | The thing — it must have been five metres across — rippled its flanges invitingly and eased right to where we stood . |
| 23 | We pass some strangely shaped mountains that must have been volcanic plugs poking up through vast panoramas . |
| 24 | I can also acknowledge that there must have been many women like her , all over Glasgow ; that there were then in the early 1900s when she was marrying and becoming a mother ; that there were later . |
| 25 | There may have been cases where the acquisition of the wrappers conferred no direct benefit on the Nestle Co. , but there must have been many cases where it did . |
| 26 | Surely there must have been many others equally clinching . |
| 27 | There must have been many daughters like Margaret White , who described in the 1590s how she stayed on living with her widowed father , ‘ guided him and his household , and was continually with him in his sickness until his death ’ . |
| 28 | Umpire Alley eventually warned Holding , but there must have been many Lancastrians who were sad to see Lloyd , on his home ground , do nothing about it . |
| 29 | But Malcolm Brodie , who must have been 80 yards away and looking at the player 's back , could say the goal was quite rightly disallowed . |
| 30 | Finally he suggested that Mr Hancock must have been 180 degrees off-course . |