Example sentences of "he [modal v] have been [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He ought to have been stopped from buying the paper in the first place , ’ he said . |
| 2 | According to one report , he told a group of journalists that he believed he ought to have been given the interim presidency . |
| 3 | He ought to have been reminded of their joint suffering before he committed his fault . |
| 4 | He and his men had killed three Germans in this house when he burst into a back room and was probably killed by a fourth German hiding there , although he may have been hit from across the street . |
| 5 | Or he may have been stripped to delay any identification , I suppose . |
| 6 | He was associated with the Augustinian abbey of Scone and the Scottish chapel royal at Stirling ; the addition ‘ alias arnat ’ to his signature , which occurs three times in the manuscript , suggests that he may have been related to David Arnot , archdeacon of Lothian and later bishop of the chapel royal . |
| 7 | His parents have not been identified , though he may have been related to a family of Purneys in Buckinghamshire . |
| 8 | As we were paying our visit at the end of the morning , he may have been dressed ready for the office . |
| 9 | He may have been drunk , but his participation was not serious . |
| 10 | He may have been influenced by his early days as a teenager in Cairo with his uncle or during his time in Hamburg . |
| 11 | He may have been influenced by the views of the parliamentary reformer Major Cartwright who at this time was on an organisational subcommittee . |
| 12 | Thereafter he may have been engaged in wholesale dealing in corn and wool , though it is more probable that he continued to lend money under the guise of advancing money against future payment of commodities . |
| 13 | He may have been missed on 96 by Morris , low at mid-wicket ; Morris may have decided that sections of the crowd would riot if he held it . |
| 14 | Is it so likely that that man , however much he may have been struck by your beauty and gaiety , Miss Jonathan , would have at once decided to assassinate your future husband ? ’ |
| 15 | He may have been inspired by the fact that the choristers of Magdalen College , Oxford , sing a Latin hymn at the top of the tower there to greet May Day . |
| 16 | When he ‘ resigned ’ as a BBC radio producer in 1986 , he may have been pushed , but it was the start of a freelance career guaranteed to outrage the good citizens of Britain with a style of comedy that ranges from the macabre to the indecent . |
| 17 | He may have been connected with the Pemyll family of Egerton . |
| 18 | He may have been christened Henry but he 'll certainly be known as ‘ Hairy ’ . |
| 19 | Sidney Lee in his life of Shakespeare , 1908 edition , attributes his accurate use of legal terms to observation of his father 's legal battles and early association with members of the Inns of Court and there is also a suggestion that on his arrival in London he may have been employed as a clerk for a lawyer . |
| 20 | He may have been called ‘ Bubbles ’ because of his corpulence , his high spirits and his weakness for champagne , but he knew who he was and considered the whole business of being in FI , and being taken seriously in it , as something of a lark . |
| 21 | Police believe Sweet may have been the victim of a gangland revenge killing , and that he may have been mistaken for someone else . |
| 22 | For one thing , the repetition helps to reinforce whatever suggestion he may have been given ; and , for another , I consider it vital that the patient realizes he is playing an extremely significant part in his own cure . |
| 23 | He is about parcels he may have been given . |
| 24 | ‘ Besides , he may have been driven over the edge by her carryings-on . |
| 25 | He may have been distracted , but there was no evidence of this . |
| 26 | But since he is Sir Anthony 's choice he may have been harmed by the Meyer candidacy . |
| 27 | He may have been persuaded to pay a large sum of money ( perhaps hundreds or thousands of pounds ) for the privilege of joining . |
| 28 | I do n't think he may have been told about that , now he himself if he knew about that , that might be sufficient digging him over this hill |
| 29 | He was the town naughty boy all right , and it was incongruous that he should have been named Wesley . |
| 30 | What had gone awry , that he should have been led to this pass , and even now he felt himself following , perforce , the twists of his fortune , headlong as a fall , when he should have been steering his own course and bearing them strongly with him ? |