Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] have be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the reasons why there has been nothing outstanding about the rate of growth of trade within the EEC and between the EEC and third countries may have been because its members have not been as assiduous as might have been expected ( by the British at least ) in removing barriers to trade between themselves and with the rest of the world . |
| 2 | For it hardly damages the contemporary legislature 's ability to work its will if judges decline to speculate about how to read cloudy rules from the dead past or what the intentions of people very different from contemporary legislators would have been if they had thought about a problem they actually ignored . |
| 3 | The greater the Mercian involvement in south-eastern England , particularly Kent , however attractive control of Kentish resources may have been or however militarily desirable the containment of a possibly unstable local hegemony , the more vulnerable was Offa 's position in the face of hostile anti-Mercian sentiment south as well as north of the Thames . |
| 4 | Such simulations , based on observed system behaviour , can tell us how things might have been if we are looking at unrepeatable , past , events or how the system might behave in the future , if the transition probabilities remain unaltered . |
| 5 | It would be idle to speculate on what the figures might have been if it were not for the security situation . |
| 6 | Do you know what the total price of the tickets would have been if I had to pay for this , one hundred and ten pounds |
| 7 | Maybe H R T was helping what her symptoms would have been if she had n't taken them , maybe they were worse because she was , maybe they were the same in spite of it , but I du n no . |
| 8 | I kept imagining him talking and laughing and thinking what his last thoughts would have been as he travelled along that road . ’ |
| 9 | William of Orange , whatever his initial intentions might have been when coming to England , was now determined to obtain the English Crown for himself , and he secured James 's second , and this time enforced , removal from his Kingdom on 23 December . |