Example sentences of "[noun prp] [modal v] have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | John Pilmay 's glasshouse at Silkstone may have been the first successful venture in the district . |
| 5 | Memphis , Tennessee must have been a lively place for the city ‘ s policemen in the early 1970s . |
| 6 | Harold Laski said Beatrice Webb should have been a medieval abbess , where her organising ability would have gained a spiritual dimension . |
| 7 | On top of which , I think Binbrook must have been the coldest RAF Station in England . |
| 8 | Malcolm Scott may have been the only footballer/cricketer at Feethams , but MI lists nine more who played against the Quakers . |
| 9 | Beethoven may have been the greatest genius of repetition in the history of music . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | At that stage , Sunderland were good value for the lead and Mr Crosby must have been a contented man . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The fortieth anniversary of the founding of East Germany on Saturday could have been a crowning moment in Erich Honecker 's career . |
| 15 | As Branson would have been the first to acknowledge , common sense dictated that he avoid it at all costs . |
| 16 | If it also represented self-confidence , Ken would have been a happy man . |
| 17 | He told me he knew that Ken would have been an impossible person to live with . |
| 18 | The axe was originally a northern European weapon , and a typical design during the time of Barbarossa would have been a simple axe blade balanced by a spike on its reverse . |
| 19 | The Kent Spring Rally on 1 March might have been a total ‘ white-out ’ but for the admirable spirit of Kent members , who ploughed their way through a freshly deposited six-inch fall of snow to get there . |
| 20 | Barny may have been a natural for breeding , but he was useless at actually rearing his offspring . |
| 21 | Scotland may have been a remote country . |
| 22 | Frantic attempts to have my bags recalled came to nought and by half-past-one the Taiwan Timberland lookalikes hit deep slush at Torino after a salivating glimpse of Monte Bianco and blanketed environs a few feet to the left wingtip. 10 December must have been a great day for skiing . |
| 23 | Fairclough played a Batty-esque defensive midfield role as far as I could tell , marking Shearer might have been a better idea , though he did an OK job as it was . |
| 24 | But Magda ze Schluderpacheru was better than the other madams , the Silver Shuriken could have been a nice place with a little work . |
| 25 | Those workings westerly of Red Dell Beck would have been the White or New Work and those oil the east of the beck the Low Work . |
| 26 | If , indeed , production was under imperial control , then Rochester would have been the ideal centre for the administration . |
| 27 | John Piper may have been a foolish man in many ways but he was always friendly and generous to all classes of people . |
| 28 | At first glance , Wilson should have been a superlative practitioner of Cabinet government . |
| 29 | This visit to Glastonbury must have been an impressive occasion , but there was probably more to it than simply pomp and piety . |
| 30 | Hawkshead must have been a fascinating crowded place on market days . |