Example sentences of "who [modal v] have be a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the grave goods were 140 pieces of gold jewellery , which had originally adorned the corpse of an important woman , who may have been a queen or a high priestess . |
| 2 | The employee would not , for six months after termination of employment , solicit custom from any person who may have been a company client during the employment . |
| 3 | It is significant , too , that one of Cnut 's major English supporters after 1016 was Godwin , who may have been a son of the Wulfnoth accused by Eadric 's brother in 1009 . |
| 4 | During the course of the decade , with or without partners , Noell took on the farming of more revenues , and in 1657–9 he was co-postmaster-general with John Thurloe [ q.v. ] , who may have been a relative by marriage . |
| 5 | I felt something of the same awe and excitement I had experienced four years before when tramping round and round Warwick Gardens with Chesterton , debating the execution of Charles I. Here was someone who ought to have been a member of the Society that G. K. C. had dominated at St. Paul 's from 1891 to 1893 . |
| 6 | The next customer was a middle-aged man who must have been a regular , for he began by saying , ‘ Do n't often see you on this side , miss . ’ |
| 7 | ( No Robina Mary , Robina Elizabeth for the girl who should have been a boy . ) |
| 8 | And Ma , who always agreed with him ( who did n't dare do otherwise ) , stout , soft Ma , who should have been a refuge , a lap to sit upon , a bosom to weep on , but who herself looked always in need of comfort — crumpled , creased , forever on the verge of tears : |
| 9 | Phoebe , who might have been a slut , had in fact become exactly the opposite — she had not time or patience or tolerance for anyone she considered to be exploiting the manual work of other women . |
| 10 | A pirate who might have been a Susan in his Dreams . |
| 11 | During May of 1845 Thomas Duke and his partner , who might have been a son , were waggoning in the mine . |
| 12 | Mr Burge 's claims to the title ( to get the votes his pupils had to write down his name separately all 18,000 times ) were strongly backed by his headmaster , David Youldon who could have been a campaign manager . |
| 13 | He speaks of himself as a man who could have been a God . |