Example sentences of "[conj] she [modal v] [verb] [been] a " in BNC.

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1 I accept from Mr that she would have been a trainee manager for some part of that time and I assess her salary as being something like seven thousand pounds net .
2 In any other circumstances , Fabia felt that she might have been a trace worried — it was n't every day that she was in a foreign land , with a foreign male who , having fed her , tried his hand at seducing her .
3 Although Mr Cross was perturbed at his strange encounter , he dismissed his consternation and decided that she must have been a village girl who had watched the train and then returned home .
4 I excluded the whole of Scotland because she would have been a little too near home — even in Glasgow there was just the chance that someone might find her or she might bump into someone from home . ’
5 ‘ Even though she would have been a rich woman had she married him ? ’
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