Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Black Prince may have been an unforeseen bonus . |
| 2 | The division may have been the only way that Chlothild was able to ensure that part of Clovis 's realm passed to her offspring . |
| 3 | Bram Stoker may have been a genial enough fellow externally , but he knew how to find a place which would match the chill in the soul of his novel . |
| 4 | John Donne may have been a great frequenter of plays , but the catalogue of his books he produced in the early seventeenth century reveals no dramatist among the many contemporary English writers he assembled . |
| 5 | In the first place , although non-convertible bank notes may have been a new element , many — perhaps most — commercial transactions had long depended on paper bills rather than value-for-weight coin . |
| 6 | Brampton may have been a quiet man but I can not imagine him allowing anyone to hustle him upstairs in a house full of people , tie a noose round his neck and hang him . |
| 7 | John Pilmay 's glasshouse at Silkstone may have been the first successful venture in the district . |
| 8 | He does n't actually use the words but his philosophy is clearly that the New Zealand sojourn may have been the darkest hour but that the darkest hours comes before the dawning of a new day . |
| 9 | According to Carrick 's admittedly biassed complaint , the anonymous correspondent must have been an ambitious junior officer , for ‘ there is no body of Men so full of plot and envy as the Excise ’ . |
| 10 | Indeed , the fact that serious crime was often punished by confiscation of all the malefactor 's possessions must have been a sore temptation , and doubtless tended to prejudice kings towards verdicts of guilty . |
| 11 | The opportunity should have been a real opportunity of doing something effective . |
| 12 | The first fourteen hours must have been the worst of the journey as I was not able to sleep , whatever position I sat in . |
| 13 | Memphis , Tennessee must have been a lively place for the city ‘ s policemen in the early 1970s . |
| 14 | Harold Laski said Beatrice Webb should have been a medieval abbess , where her organising ability would have gained a spiritual dimension . |
| 15 | On top of which , I think Binbrook must have been the coldest RAF Station in England . |
| 16 | Malcolm Scott may have been the only footballer/cricketer at Feethams , but MI lists nine more who played against the Quakers . |
| 17 | The result may have been a conflicting programme for pupils . |
| 18 | Beethoven may have been the greatest genius of repetition in the history of music . |
| 19 | Dorchester may have been an extreme case , but throughout England , there were hard-working , anxious , godly folk whose rage with their king eventually led him to the scaffold at Whitehall . |
| 20 | The general effect must have been a serious breaking-up of the great landed estates of Britain and their redistribution to absentee landlords , apart from those who preferred to move to Britain and take up residence . |
| 21 | Both dorsals must have been a good twelve inches clear of the water . |
| 22 | The murder must have been a severe shock to her and she would no doubt be deeply concerned over its effect on her husband ; she should have gone to see her yesterday , or at least telephoned . |
| 23 | William Symons must have been a wild one for in July of the same year he and Elizabeth Cole also of Halling , were both bound over for twenty shillings to appear at the next gaol delivery . |
| 24 | At that stage , Sunderland were good value for the lead and Mr Crosby must have been a contented man . |
| 25 | I suppose my eyes must have been a little red . |
| 26 | Yet portions cling to the style of days gone by , when a salt beef sandwich might have been the single meal of the day . |
| 27 | Head of the Department of the Environment 's science unit , Dick Derwent , who was in Teesside to see the progress , dismissed suggestions that Redcar 's Technical College might have been a better site . |
| 28 | The fact that we were looking towards the United States might have been an acceptable concept during the war , but it has been an unacceptable concept for the past 12 years , during which Europe has been creating itself and showing an enthusiasm for a single European currency and a central bank and for increasing the powers of the European Community 's institutions . |
| 29 | The fortieth anniversary of the founding of East Germany on Saturday could have been a crowning moment in Erich Honecker 's career . |
| 30 | Another holding could have been the obscure Bigstrupp Farm , or hamlet , of which there is no record between 1346 and 1797 . |