Example sentences of "[modal v] have been one " in BNC.
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| 31 | During the following months the School managed to carry on , but the atmosphere must have been one of great despondency . |
| 32 | All that remains of the Port Ellen library is the brass Plaque and five volumes in the Gaelic which bear the date 1905 and one of them is number 305 , so it must have been one of the largest as well as one of the early ones . |
| 33 | An anonymous telephone call to the police must have been one option ; but that seemed unlikely because in that case the police would already be here . |
| 34 | Yet recently Dr Hsu of Zurich has suggested that they record what must have been one of the most spectacular incidents in earth history . |
| 35 | Her sensible cotton nightshirt must have been one of his discards . |
| 36 | This election must have been one of the last in Scotland where open bribery took place . |
| 37 | It must have been one of those men Angy sketched … the one she was talking about packing up . |
| 38 | Isolated in the middle of the pacific Ocean , 3,200 miles from Tahiti , and with a sea-crossing of almost a month stretching out before him to the next port of call , Darwin 's stay in this inhospitable volcanic outcrop must have been one of the lowest points for him on the entire trip . |
| 39 | ‘ This must have been one of the stupid ones , ’ said Nooty . |
| 40 | It must have been one of the old medieval roads into the city , now dosed to traffic by the concrete retaining wall of the ring boulevard . |
| 41 | Brother Joachim , like many of the Franciscans , must have been one of these . |
| 42 | The setting up of the ‘ Strategy Unit ’ must have been one of the new Government 's very first acts . |
| 43 | These are the affirmations that were being made as Jesus trotted in Jerusalem with this little donkey , his followers gathered all around him looking from the heights of the walls of Jerusalem , there must have been one or two curious , astonished , worried eyes , the Sanhedrin , the Chief Elders , |
| 44 | This must have been one hell of a shock , and you 're overwrought , that 's all . |
| 45 | ‘ The fact that Simon worshipped the ground you walked on means you must have been one hundred per cent certain that when you told him he 'd insist on marrying you — which he did — so what difference did that one day make to you ? ’ |
| 46 | Reid felt the first spasm of panic sweeping over him for he knew what Lester was after but Reid just grunted back at Piggott which provided no encouragement at all and he must have been one of the most relieved jockeys in the race to see the starting stalls open for even in the parade beforehand he still had visions of Lester taking over . |
| 47 | When we got on the plane , we appreciated the Chinese caution : it was a rather ancient Russian prop-driven machine , which must have been one of those the Russians bequeathed to the Chinese when they went home in the early 1960s , taking all their spare parts with them . |
| 48 | I was born in one of the semi-detached , but I do n't know which one it was , it must have been one of the |
| 49 | not the first or the fourth it must have been one of those in the middle , but I 'm not sure which one it was . |
| 50 | But it raises the question whether a celebration of the sciences might have been one means of differentiating Protestant cultural values from those of Roman Catholicism . |
| 51 | Now she was smiling , accompanied by a very young Italian who might have been one of the waiters her old school-friend saved for the last . |
| 52 | And in fact it 's grown to twenty areas in the intervening thirty odd years , so that 's not bad emp empire building really is it ? thought it might have been one hundred and forty eight by now but it 's not . |
| 53 | " Oh give her a lump of sugar , " he said ; she might have been one of his least favourite horses . |
| 54 | I think it was the old Gladding Masters match , he did n't win it ( Pete Palmer did ) , but he had plenty of big names behind him ( I think the editor might have been one of them ) and showed why he must have been greatly feared in his prime . |
| 55 | No I do n't think there were , there might have been one or two , yes I do know one that used to make some form of er something for the saddlery trade and you know those houses opposite the alms houses in Road , there are some alms houses on the one side , then there 's some houses that lie up steps on the other side of the road if they 're still there . |
| 56 | Tax erm I ca n't remember where it was that , I think it might have been one of you saying that how that a peasant of subsistence level erm would still have to pay eighteen percent of its income |
| 57 | Within a week the big machines had moved in , and that corner of his parish could have been one of thousands of others in modern England — any place , anywhere . |
| 58 | You imagine what a guy like that is like and then you meet him and he could have been one of us . |
| 59 | ‘ It 's chilling and frightening to realise I could have been one of his victims . ’ |
| 60 | After its turbid passage through the twin cities the Ankh could have been one of them . |