Example sentences of "they [modal v] have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These early nautiloids were probably predators also , and if this were so they may have been the first rapidly moving , efficient hunters in the sea . |
| 2 | They may have been the gigantic reptilian analogue of the elephant , and it may be no coincidence that the elephant also has its nasal openings on top of the skull , with the nostrils in this case sited at the end of the trunk it has been suggested that some sauropods may have had a proboscis of some sort . |
| 3 | They must have been a bloody nuisance . |
| 4 | They must have been the same year , for their birthdays were only two months apart . |
| 5 | T his morning , looming through a yellow haze , they might have been the eroded spires of a lost city of cathedrals , buried beneath the omnipresent sand . |
| 6 | They formed galleries , which seemed so regular they might have been the honeycombed nestings of some breed of super-lice that had reached an advanced accommodation with their host . |
| 7 | They could have been the same young Russians we had met 4,000 miles away in Fairbanks only the day before . |
| 8 | They would have been the only outward sign of strain as her voice continued to keep its same even tenor , its same quiet courtesy . |