Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [verb] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still less pleasing to him must have been the prospect that if his clerks ignored the order to jettison their excess cures of souls , they would suffer excommunication with all its attendant disabilities and interruption of his service . |
| 2 | It was widely believed the committee wanted him , but insiders pointed out he may have been the wrong man for the job . |
| 3 | He may have been the Richard Whit or White matriculated at Magdalen Hall , Oxford , in 1584 , though this is not certain . |
| 4 | He may have been the author of a memorandum written between 1289 and 1307 concerning plans for a new crusade . |
| 5 | He may have been the ‘ Maister Vartu ’ who worked on the church of St Mary-at-Hill in London in 1502 , and the ‘ Vertu the mason ’ paid for a new window at St Anthony 's Hospital , Threadneedle Street , London . |
| 6 | His predominant mode , in the Clarendon Building and All Souls designs and at Queen 's , as well as in other works , such as the Christ Church buttery ( 1722 ) and his Durham quadrangle range at Trinity College ( 1728 ) , was a simplified version of the baroque of Hawksmoor and Sir John Vanbrugh [ q.v. ] ; but the fellows ' building at Corpus Christi College , of which he may have been the designer as well as the builder , was close to the proto-Palladian manner of the Peckwater quadrangle , while his Radcliffe quadrangle at University College ( 1717–19 ) — again devised under Clarke 's direction — and his additions at Oriel College ( 1719–20 ) were faithful copies of the traditional Jacobean style of the adjoining buildings , the former including a skilfully executed Gothic vault . |
| 7 | Nothing is known for certain about his parentage and birth , but David Fallows has suggested that he may have been the same man as John Boddenham , born in Oxford in 1422 , chorister and scholar of Winchester College and later scholar and fellow of New College , Oxford . |
| 8 | He may have been the second , or a younger , son . |
| 9 | He should have been the principal suspect . ’ |
| 10 | He should have been the last person to be killed . |
| 11 | ‘ He should have been the best horse I ever had , if only he 'd had decent health ! ’ from owner David Broome , this was quite some testimonial to the abilities of the brilliant grey show-jumper , Phoenix Park . |
| 12 | He must have been the tenant for , in 1812 , the mill had been bought by Peter Playne from the Wade family , in whose hands it had remained since around 1758 . |
| 13 | He must have been the talk of the town . |
| 14 | He must have been the best-known and most celebrated inhabitant of Baldersdale — excepting Hannah Hauxwell , of course — within living memory . |
| 15 | Twenty years back he must have been the most exciting man any girl could hope to meet , in or out of the British Army . |
| 16 | He must have been the last to drink it . |
| 17 | She learned that Maxim had an elder sister — oddly , she 'd always assumed he must have been the first child — who had married a Quaker school-master and lived up North , had three children and did n't work , ‘ Except at disapproving of the Army , ’ Maxim added . |
| 18 | I remember one funeral when I was a little girl at the school , was an old man who died , Benji he was I think he must have been the best the last in Orkney . |
| 19 | He must have been the first cousin of Man . |
| 20 | Though , on looking across at him , and observing that one eyebrow had ascended aloft at what he must consider was the sharpness of her answer , she realised that she was never likely to get an interview if she did not control her exasperation at his evasive non-answers to most of her questions . |
| 21 | And Allied Signal Corp chairman Lawrence Bossidy has initiated the UK ‘ manufacturing versus services ’ debate in the US , suggesting that for those that believe that IBM Corp should be making more , cheaper rather than shuttering factories all over the place , he might have been the right man for the job : US industry ‘ can not slash its way to prosperity , ’ he told the new Design & Manufacturing Institute of the Stevens Institute of Technology — adding that while design innovation is a US strength , ‘ we need to extend US technological excellence from the design laboratory to the manufacturing floor — American business needs to find ways to improve the speed with which we convert innovative design into high-quality , marketable product ; many of our factory floors are populated by high-school graduates or dropouts , with a few engineers serving as supervisors safely ensconced behind glass walls , ’ Bossidy said , where Japanese shop floors are staffed much more by graduate engineers who work directly with well-trained workers , to solve problems and improve manufacturing efficiency . |
| 22 | If Gustave had n't been the Bear , he might have been the Camel . |
| 23 | I think he might have been the first black player in England but I know Celtic fielded jazz and rap pioneer Gil Scott Heron 's Dad in the 30s — a great success there apparently . |
| 24 | There has been speculation that he might have been the ideal Tory candidate for the Hexham seat if he had not already given his allegiance to Langbaurgh . |
| 25 | All he could distinguish was the sound rather than the words , but he could tell by the tone of her voice that Senga was n't taking it in . |
| 26 | Jed had only been inside the building once , and all he could remember was the angel . |
| 27 | He had to leave after the first rehearsals when the only line he could remember was the one he 'd tried on the leading lady the night before . |
| 28 | Mr Stringer now appears relatively safe , but he could have been the victim of his own success . |
| 29 | He could have been the best footballer in the world if he 'd have bothered turning up and stuff , ’ Gedge told Sounds . |
| 30 | Police said he could have been the rapist who has attacked several women over 18 months , including a girl of 15 . |