Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] be [pron] from " in BNC.

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1 Somebody who knew us must have given a list of our names to the Germans , and it must have been somebody from Fontanellato .
2 It must have been somebody from the village .
3 It must have been someone from the village , Rose said : who else would be walking in the woods at that hour ?
4 it might 've been someone from cafe phoning up
5 ‘ We are beginning to think that it might have been someone from his past , ’ Bragg said .
6 It could have been anything from a dance routine to a loose maul .
7 He could have been anything from twenty-five to thirty , but not , she judged , beyond thirty .
8 Secondly , goods which a husband enjoyed through his wife were excluded ; this could have been anything from beds and linen to the poultry .
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