Example sentences of "they [modal v] have be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old-fashioned they may have been but they proved a point , which today 's deregulated TV stations would do well to heed , that what the public actually want to see is characterization , plot , and relationships . |
| 2 | There was a Bede , Natura Rerum , in which the blues seemed still as intense as they must have been when first painted . |
| 3 | Oh I sh I suppose they might have been but where they were made I , cos I mean you get like they used to b they used to deal in all shoes , no doubt they got them from them . |
| 4 | Moreover , if bad management is perceived by the stock market , share prices will be lower than they might have been and a takeover raider may see an opportunity to buy up the company , install a better management , improve profits , and hence make capital gains when share prices subsequently rise . |
| 5 | With the absence of any wind and the greens softer than they would have been but for the rain of Tuesday , the course was , as Jack Nicklaus put it , ‘ there for the taking ’ . |
| 6 | It has enabled living standards to be higher and inflation lower than they would have been if the existing current account position had been maintained . |
| 7 | Detailed studies of the cost of such tied aid have indicated that the resultant prices to the recipient country are typically 20 per cent more than they would have been if the country had a free choice in its supplier . |
| 8 | By restricting the right to vote to fully accepted church members , political power in Massachusetts was placed in the hands of the godly men who had led the expedition ; those who had joined the expedition merely in the hope of a better standard of living found their efforts justified by success because , despite some difficult times in the 1630s , the labouring population in the colony by the 1640s was fairly certainly more prosperous than they would have been if they had stayed in England , and about 20,000 people had settled in New England at a total cost of about £200,000 . |
| 9 | Cos you know to look at the bottom line of total design fees against what they would have been if we 'd gone in fixed price ? |
| 10 | The Chief Constable fussed around the Bishop , the press had been shut up , or anyway given a damn sight less than they would have been if it had n't been a priest 's body , or rather , head . |
| 11 | His injuries were worse than they would have been if he had been wearing a seat belt . |