Example sentences of "who [modal v] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea is to give a taste of life outside for mental patients who may have been inside institutions for up to twenty years . |
| 2 | The heaviest betting this year has been for Shellac , a six-length winner from Sudden Victory at Ayr last time out , but the deciding factor is that Dettori originally chose to ride SPLENDID CAREER ( nap 3.35 ) , who may have been unlucky when beaten at Newbury by yesterday 's Goodwood winner Monastery . |
| 3 | In such circumstances , the counsellor will often find that invaluable help and information can be obtained from relatives and friends , who may have been aware of the personal circumstances , but perhaps unaware of their full significance at the time . |
| 4 | He left after a dispute with the deputy professor , Charles Spooner , who may have been jealous of Mayhew 's popularity with the students . |
| 5 | This was a sensible and useful method of reference ; one which would have been invaluable to the gatherers of simples , who must have been grateful to find the information in a reasonably priced book . |
| 6 | But Malcolm Brodie , who must have been 80 yards away and looking at the player 's back , could say the goal was quite rightly disallowed . |
| 7 | Charlie heard the words , ‘ Carry on , Sergeant-Major , ’ and a moment later a man who must have been six feet six inches in height , and whose beer-barrel chest was covered in medal ribbons , took a pace forward . |
| 8 | But the inescapable conclusion was that it was one of their own who must have been responsible . |
| 9 | To her grandfather , admittedly , a man who must have been old enough to have been her father , but still surely nothing to get in such a stew over . |
| 10 | English churchmen , who must have been aware of these activities , were sometimes also familiar with the conditions which gave rise to them . |
| 11 | Or a prissy tech pedant , who should have been one of my father 's scribes . ’ |
| 12 | The exception was Helga , a Euro-slut from Cologne who should have been several grades higher but kept deliberately failing the aptitude tests so as to be with Massimo . |
| 13 | Among those closest who should have been frightened was Annie , his girl for a while . |
| 14 | They were people , beings , half-formed creatures who might have been strange and beautiful and filled with wild , woodland magic . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But their error was more fruitful than those who might have been right . |
| 17 | Consequently there are few new musicians in many areas who might have been able to train others to follow them . |
| 18 | If pain and other symptoms were being so badly managed these patients should have been referred promptly to other health care professionals who might have been able to provide a better quality of analgesia . |
| 19 | In a flash a sniper , who could have been any gun happy soul anywhere , had killed . |
| 20 | And sitting on the edge of this stream , embraced by the mellow light , was a female creature , who could have been human or fairy or perhaps neither . |
| 21 | That Svend has offended a man who could have been instrumental in his receiving an engineering scholarship to a university in the States , and all he 's likely to receive as thanks is a chaste kiss ? ’ |
| 22 | What has upset Brian is the knowledge that within hours of Joanna disappearing from the leisure centre car park eight days ago , he was being ‘ fingered ’ as someone who could have been responsible for kidnapping her . |
| 23 | As he knelt by its head he cursed the men on either side who could have been responsible for such a war . |
| 24 | This event had already lost James Trotman , Sarah Kirby and Jasmine Choudbhury through injury — all players who could have been potential title winners . |
| 25 | A major part of the paper 's thinking was that it could employ people who would have been good journalists if they had pursued journalism as a conventional career . |
| 26 | ( c ) If the death takes place after the passing of the Finance Act , 1975 , but within seven years of the advance or determination , then in ascertaining for the purposes of CTT the value of the deceased 's estate immediately before his death there is to be included the value of any property which would have been chargeable with estate duty had Section 2 ( 1 ) ( b ) ( i ) of the Finance Act , 1894 , still been in force ( ie , after the application of any taper relief ) , unless the deceased was the surviving partner of a marriage which had been terminated by the death of the other spouse before 13/11/74 and the exempting provisions of Section 5 ( 2 ) of that Act would have applied had they still been in force ; and the persons accountable for the tax are those who would have been accountable under Section 44 of the Finance Act , 1950 , for any estate duty that would have been chargeable . |
| 27 | He was tough to handle , ’ said Hansen , who would have been delighted to see the Dane acting as peacemaker in the volatile Manchester derby at Old Trafford this week . |
| 28 | ‘ I should n't think there have been any shortage of women in your life who would have been delighted to make a home for you anywhere in the world ! ’ she told him waspishly , disliking the way he was making her feel a little sorry for him . |
| 29 | Finally , to the late , a long-standing member of the North East Division who would have been delighted to have seen me standing here today . |
| 30 | But the point is it does n't matter who was right , and even less who would have been right ; all that matters is what people felt , because that 's what produced the new ethos of the age ; consensus had led to impasse , care to sterility , so : deliver a shock to the system , take the sort of radical risk with the country that you have to take with a business at least once in its history if it 's to succeed ; go for growth , take the monetarist shilling . ’ |