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Example sentences of "he [vb mod] have been [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Still less pleasing to him must have been the prospect that if his clerks ignored the order to jettison their excess cures of souls , they would suffer excommunication with all its attendant disabilities and interruption of his service .
2	As for Dennis , well , after that killing him would have been a kindness , would n't it ?
3	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 .
4	He may have been a Londoner , brought up in the Newcastle coal trade .
5	‘ He may have been a fool , but I do n't think that was an accident . ’
6	He may have been a time-server as his attitude about the Pole Nicolaus Copernicus suggests .
7	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
8	He may have been a manager or even an owner before becoming a business valuer .
9	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 .
10	He may have been the second , or a younger , son .
11	He may have been the author of a memorandum written between 1289 and 1307 concerning plans for a new crusade .
12	His predominant mode , in the Clarendon Building and All Souls designs and at Queen 's , as well as in other works , such as the Christ Church buttery ( 1722 ) and his Durham quadrangle range at Trinity College ( 1728 ) , was a simplified version of the baroque of Hawksmoor and Sir John Vanbrugh [ q.v. ] ; but the fellows ' building at Corpus Christi College , of which he may have been the designer as well as the builder , was close to the proto-Palladian manner of the Peckwater quadrangle , while his Radcliffe quadrangle at University College ( 1717–19 ) — again devised under Clarke 's direction — and his additions at Oriel College ( 1719–20 ) were faithful copies of the traditional Jacobean style of the adjoining buildings , the former including a skilfully executed Gothic vault .
13	He should have been a character in a Balzac novel .
14	I think he should have been a monk or a professor .
15	He should have been a choir master .
16	‘ He should have been a candidate in …
17	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 .
18	‘ He must have been a lunatic . ’
19	He must have been a fool for her er , you know ?
20	We always see that aspect , but we forget that first he must have been a warrior too .
21	Earlier biographies tend to suffer from the ‘ he was a genius therefore he must have been a saint ’ syndrome .
22	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
23	I think if I 'm just a splinter out of his head , then he must have been a bit like me , not much though . ’
24	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 .
25	He must have been a knock-out when he was young .
26	He must have been a Catholic , because he was gabbling Ave 's .
27	He must have been a stranger to the village , that was why she was telling him .
28	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 .
29	He appeared slight standing next to the sergeant major , although he must have been a shade over six feet himself .
30	He must have been the tenant for , in 1812 , the mill had been bought by Peter Playne from the Wade family , in whose hands it had remained since around 1758 .