Example sentences of "he [vb mod] have been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for Dennis , well , after that killing him would have been a kindness , would n't it ? |
| 2 | Now , in retrospect , she could see that marriage to him would have been a ghastly mistake , and that her reaction to discovering that he had been seeing other women while he had been engaged to her had had far more to do with wounded pride than with a wounded heart . |
| 3 | He may have been a time-server as his attitude about the Pole Nicolaus Copernicus suggests . |
| 4 | He may have been a character in Kilburn 's past , but a folklorist , N A Hudleston , suggested he was Grim , otherwise the Norse god Odin . |
| 5 | He may have been a Londoner , brought up in the Newcastle coal trade . |
| 6 | He may have been a fellow of Merton College , Oxford , c .1270 , and was certainly a member of the Dominican convent in Oxford , perhaps by c .1282 . |
| 7 | He may have been a manager or even an owner before becoming a business valuer . |
| 8 | ‘ He may have been a fool , but I do n't think that was an accident . ’ |
| 9 | Lyfing was later a pluralist with no good reputation , but it is worth noting the Chronicle D text 's description of him as " the eloquent bishop " : like Wulfstan , he may have been a notable preacher . |
| 10 | Mm , apparently the guy that was driving it had overalls on , so he may have been a mechanic delivering it to somewhere or test driving it over there |
| 11 | He may have been an outstanding goalkeeper but he was hardly a product of the Harvard Business School . |
| 12 | No claim has yet been made by any paramilitary group about his killing and the Royal Ulster Constabulary said yesterday they were not aware of any reason why he should have been a target . |
| 13 | He should have been a character in a Balzac novel . |
| 14 | ‘ He should have been a candidate in … |
| 15 | He should have been a choir master . |
| 16 | I think he should have been a monk or a professor . |
| 17 | He must have been a stranger to the village , that was why she was telling him . |
| 18 | Under his guidance the little group shared his special feeling for Rembrandt , who painted Jewish faces from the Amsterdam ghetto with such humanity that Modigliani insisted he must have been a Jew . |
| 19 | He must have been a good bit older than her . |
| 20 | Here I apologised to JTR and learned that he must have been a very tall man . |
| 21 | He must have been a remarkable man , because when his aircraft was shot down he lost his right hand but before many months had passed he was back on his squadron with a hook on his right arm , and although I am not one hundred percent sure of my facts here , I believe he went back on operations as a navigator or air gunner . |
| 22 | Great-Grandfather was running a farm at the same time , so he must have been a very busy man . |
| 23 | ‘ He must have been a lunatic . ’ |
| 24 | And , indeed , he must have been a tough little lad to have survived it all , though it was to take its toll on him eventually ; by the time he died in far-away London at the age of 29 he had lived through some very harsh times indeed . |
| 25 | On the other hand , he must have been a disappointment to his dynastically inclined father and mother since he never showed any aspirations for political office despite their encouragement . |
| 26 | He must have been a quite remarkable man . ’ |
| 27 | Earlier biographies tend to suffer from the ‘ he was a genius therefore he must have been a saint ’ syndrome . |
| 28 | He must have been a very attractive man once , I thought , and then wondered , suddenly , if Adam had had a similar thought about me . |
| 29 | He must have been a strong contender for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar but then again , the history of the academy awards is littered with the words ‘ if only … ’ |
| 30 | He must have been a knock-out when he was young . |