Example sentences of "[vb pp] [modal v] have been [adj] " in BNC.

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1	However , Mr Justice Johnson asked for permission to relist the case because he ‘ became concerned that the length of sentence imposed may have been excessive ’ .
2	Mr Justice Johnson said he was ‘ concerned that the length of the sentence imposed may have been excessive ’ .
3	If , however , Shakespeare did actually exist , then he must have possessed certain attributes that made him the kind of existent he was , even though no attributes that he may have had would have been sufficient to individuate him in a metaphysical sense .
4	The questions raised may have been interesting , but the answers given were tritely familiar ; the authorial tone was relentlessly baleful .
5	Asking the way down with the glory of sight restored would have been stupid in the extreme , and I gave secret thanks for my ego salvation .
6	Secondly , any training he had received would have been conventional or vapid , as a result of German supervision of art education .
7	Especially from the Seven Years War in 1757 , the wars in which Britain was involved may have been European and dynastic in origin , but so far as her struggle with France was concerned , they were global in breadth .
8	With some notable exceptions such as the use of terracing in the Ulugurus , most of the measures involved could have been successful in physically preventing soil erosion .
9	To have asked would have been indiscreet .
10	Similarly in Re New Mashonaland Exploration Company Vaughan Williams J commented , obiter , that where a company has resolved to lend money on security , to have parted with the money before the security had been created would have been negligent .
11	The kind of company he would most have liked would have been that of a family , his own .
12	So the label switching in itself constitutes an appropriation and so to have held would have been sufficient for the dismissal of both appeals .

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