Example sentences of "[vb mod] probably have be a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would probably have been a cover-up in any army , if only to find the time to deal with the malefactors by the army 's own rules . |
| 2 | Herbert von Karajan would probably have been a phenomenon in any age — musical talent of this order , high intelligence , and such singleness of purpose rarely go unregistered — but the twentieth-century context has made the career an unusually fascinating one , even if it has not always been very well understood by the apprentice biographers or the journalists who find Karajan such an irresistible source of copy . |
| 3 | As retail centres they would probably have been a success , but they threatened existing centres and the needs of non-car owners : ‘ these and other proposals were greeted with hostility by planners and rejected largely on impact grounds ’ ( Schiller , 1986 , 13 ) . |
| 4 | But revenge was not the whole motive : without it , the joke might have been cheaper , less elaborate , of a different kind — but there would probably have been a joke of some kind . |
| 5 | Again , the ARC will probably have been a test . |
| 6 | On a more light-hearted matter there have been several amusing items discussed , including a subject that will probably have been a topic of conversation at a few lunch tables — uniforms . |