Example sentences of "he [modal v] have [be] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for Dennis , well , after that killing him would have been a kindness , would n't it ? |
| 2 | He may have been a character in Kilburn 's past , but a folklorist , N A Hudleston , suggested he was Grim , otherwise the Norse god Odin . |
| 3 | He may have been a Londoner , brought up in the Newcastle coal trade . |
| 4 | ‘ He may have been a fool , but I do n't think that was an accident . ’ |
| 5 | He may have been a time-server as his attitude about the Pole Nicolaus Copernicus suggests . |
| 6 | Mm , apparently the guy that was driving it had overalls on , so he may have been a mechanic delivering it to somewhere or test driving it over there |
| 7 | He may have been a manager or even an owner before becoming a business valuer . |
| 8 | He may have been a fellow of Merton College , Oxford , c .1270 , and was certainly a member of the Dominican convent in Oxford , perhaps by c .1282 . |
| 9 | He should have been a character in a Balzac novel . |
| 10 | I think he should have been a monk or a professor . |
| 11 | He should have been a choir master . |
| 12 | ‘ He should have been a candidate in … |
| 13 | No claim has yet been made by any paramilitary group about his killing and the Royal Ulster Constabulary said yesterday they were not aware of any reason why he should have been a target . |
| 14 | ‘ He must have been a lunatic . ’ |
| 15 | He must have been a fool for her er , you know ? |
| 16 | We always see that aspect , but we forget that first he must have been a warrior too . |
| 17 | Earlier biographies tend to suffer from the ‘ he was a genius therefore he must have been a saint ’ syndrome . |
| 18 | Well he star I think probably the first He must have been a joiner for a wee while before he was you were just asked to do this the same I suppose as any other job any other joiner job |
| 19 | I think if I 'm just a splinter out of his head , then he must have been a bit like me , not much though . ’ |
| 20 | Under his guidance the little group shared his special feeling for Rembrandt , who painted Jewish faces from the Amsterdam ghetto with such humanity that Modigliani insisted he must have been a Jew . |
| 21 | He must have been a knock-out when he was young . |
| 22 | He must have been a Catholic , because he was gabbling Ave 's . |
| 23 | He must have been a stranger to the village , that was why she was telling him . |
| 24 | On the other hand , he must have been a disappointment to his dynastically inclined father and mother since he never showed any aspirations for political office despite their encouragement . |
| 25 | He appeared slight standing next to the sergeant major , although he must have been a shade over six feet himself . |
| 26 | He could not see where Terry Place and his killing of William Egan , nor the idea that he might have been a poisoner , fitted into all this , perhaps nowhere , but his violence seemed to have a kind of a parallel in the Essex cases , which might illuminate his own problem . |
| 27 | It is also a question we would ask about the tomb of a knight , whose collar suggests he might have been a Lancastrian . |
| 28 | In former times he might have been a nobleman 's factotum , now I dare say he is a film director 's personal assistant , and he leans forward obsequiously to catch his companion 's every word . |
| 29 | The monastic chronicler in later Wessex who wrote up the entry classifying the invasion seems to have got his dates wrong ; recent scholars have suggested he might have been a quarter of a century too late . |
| 30 | ( You 'd think he might have been a bit more careful — after all , this was n't happening in the Dark Ages before birth control was invented . ) |