Example sentences of "[det] [vb mod] have been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not ideal , Ah 'm told , but that may have been part of the test . ’ |
| 2 | That must have been Lee who 'd put it there . |
| 3 | I think that must have been G.P. 's doing . |
| 4 | She did n't wish to interrupt my work , she knew I was researching ( that must have been Colette ) , but how was I settling in ? |
| 5 | That must have been Pete 's first year at school . |
| 6 | ‘ That must have been luck . ’ |
| 7 | Incredibly , that must have been Antoinette after all . |
| 8 | I think that should have been Plymouth , I thought Plymouth were high on the league , they 're not , they 're near bottom |
| 9 | The plants were generally bushy shrubs , but some may have been climbers , and others robust enough to form small trees . |
| 10 | This may have been Nicholas 's opinion of himself , but it did not affect many of his actions . |
| 11 | Müncheberg 's second victim crashed near a crossroads at Wardia with the pilot apparently dead ; this may have been Mortimer 's aircraft . |
| 12 | This may have been coincidence or , as we noted earlier , a deliberate ploy to enhance his own standing . |
| 13 | This may have been Painswick near Stroud , which has a long-standing tradition of clipping , as he was in Gloucestershire at one time . |
| 14 | This may have been Swegen 's response to the attempts by Æthelred to get Norman help reported by Henry of Huntingdon under 1009 . |
| 15 | Douglas Kilvington of Kirkstall wrote in querying the ‘ Cufton ’ and making the point that this should have been Clifton . |
| 16 | This must have been part of a Roman cemetery as again in 1926 near this spot workmen digging on the edge of Lee 's Great Quarry ( Houlder Quarry ) , 20 yards from Clements Farm found a quantity of human bones and pottery . |
| 17 | He called it the Common Red Rose and described it as having ‘ flowers not very double , open wide ’ , indicating that this must have been Rosa gallica officinalis or the Apothecary 's Rose . |
| 18 | Bath are virtually unbeatable … that 's the first point to make and even for Gloucester on top form this would have been mission impossible … the cherry and whites self destructed though … they missed five kicks and presented the champions with at least two tries … in all Bath got six … |
| 19 | Many will have committed sexual offences that other prisoners find abhorrent ; some will have been informers who helped the police in the hope of obtaining a shorter sentence and still others may have built up debts inside prison that they can not repay . |
| 20 | Something pink and purple flitted with a scream ( that might have been mine ) across my other foot and away . |
| 21 | But that could have been guesswork . |
| 22 | Although some of these may have been cases of a genuine change of religious commitment , in many I was given the strong impression that these were people who had come to the church regularly at the time when they were building their political careers but who had subsequently fallen away and now professed no strong denominational attachment . |
| 23 | These may have been farmsteads or hamlets , but they were certainly not large or extensive enough to be villages , whatever their status or internal arrangements . |
| 24 | From a commercial viewpoint , this was clearly intolerable , although socially these may have been lines in very remote areas where rail was an important link . |
| 25 | Even this proved insufficient to cover all cases , and so the class was enlarged to embrace ‘ other men ’ possessing incomes from land of 200 marks a year ( 1510 ) or £200 ( 1533 ) ; these might have been merchants or any other persons whose wealth was of recent acquisition . |
| 26 | These would have been collaterals in whom Ivy might have delighted . |
| 27 | The same can be said of the junior ministers who finally wrecked the government in 1922 ; many of these would have been cabinet ministers in a party government . |
| 28 | If the gas density in the PFM was appreciable then the terrestrial planets could have acquired substantial atmospheres , and these would have been representative of the PFM , with H 2 and He dominant . |
| 29 | All of those could have been candidates to provide extra revenue . |
| 30 | All of those could have been candidates to provide extra revenue . |