Example sentences of "things that [vb mod] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she said things that would have been better left to silence . |
| 2 | The only things that might have been classed as narrative were the poems , and they did n't seem to have anything to do with each other , apart from the fact a lot of them seemed to be vaguely about Death , or Love . |
| 3 | But er that was , that was very much er clutching at things that might have been at the last moment . |
| 4 | By comparison , the folk idiom and long melodic phrases of Dvorak 's American String Quartet seem gentle and homely , yet they too conveyed their own form of passionate yearning for homeland rather than , as in the Janacek , for things that might have been . |
| 5 | The thing that worries some people is that as it 's come at this particular time that some of the things that might have been done five years ago by Local Education Authorities to improve their whole education for children with special needs may now , either through other competing financial pressures , or through inertia or whatever , the whole spirit of Warnock could be lost , and I think it 's a thing that , you know , one will have to keep a careful eye on . |
| 6 | I mean from rig to rig things work differently and I mean on on Piper , I would say there were probably things that could have been tightened up but then again I do n't think they were part and parcel of what happened and there on July the sixth . |