Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] been [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The programmers who designed them may have been any of these things , but that is irrelevant . |
| 2 | Among them must have been many new men pushing up from below . |
| 3 | Sometimes , it is true , they must have been little more than what Marc Bloch described as ‘ l'endroit où on passe ’ ; but one may presume that efforts were made to drain long-distance roads and keep them clear of obstruction ; and kings and princes in several countries regarded the main roads as their roads . |
| 4 | They must have been such wonderful beings , and now even the legacy of their environment was being rewritten by the humans , changed with every curved floor covered by a flat grille , every piece of art ripped from the walls and studied out of context , every subtle nuance of space filled with metal and plastic , neural net cabinets , stores , machinery , even people . |
| 5 | I could not identify my feelings , they must have been those of shock . |
| 6 | The above-mentioned aerodromes are only two I have selected , but they could have been any of many in both countries . |