Example sentences of "he [modal v] have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ought to have been off somewhere else on a shoot by now . |
| 2 | I suppose he ought to have been very practical , from that background , but nothing was further from the truth . |
| 3 | Then in his fifth year at the school , when he ought to have been aiming for his school certificate which was the next and essential passport for that golden educated future , he left abruptly to work as a haberdasher 's assistant in the local Co-operative store . |
| 4 | Alongside rich , corrupt and irresistible Sir Jack Falstaff is the young Prince Hal , wandering far from his true royal path , mixing with thieves and wastrels when he ought to have been studying to be a king . |
| 5 | He ought to have been reminded of their joint suffering before he committed his fault . |
| 6 | The magazine had been consuming too much of his time even though , ideally , he ought to have been devoting more to it . |
| 7 | For surely he ought to have been able to explain to Colonel Hope , to persuade Colonel Hope , to arrive at a gentlemanly agreement — and what precisely had Colonel Hope said ? |
| 8 | ‘ He ought to have been stopped from buying the paper in the first place , ’ he said . |
| 9 | He ought to have been over the moon at her suggestion that she leave him , but instead it seemed to have made him angry . |
| 10 | According to one report , he told a group of journalists that he believed he ought to have been given the interim presidency . |
| 11 | Out of his professional need , he will have settled on a good working strain over the years and any surplus he may have is virtually guaranteed to be first-class . |
| 12 | 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 ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Besides , he may have been driven over the edge by her carryings-on . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And Rosenberg : ‘ Utterly misguided he may have been , but he was honest in his own belief in what he was doing . ’ |
| 16 | But since he is Sir Anthony 's choice he may have been harmed by the Meyer candidacy . |
| 17 | He may have been right , in his day . |
| 18 | Quiet and reserved he may have been , but his determination to succeed has been of great importance to his colleagues , both on and off the field . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He may have been genuinely distressed by the pain he was causing me — something he later confessed he had deliberately provoked , with subtle sadism masquerading as friendly frankness . |
| 21 | Later at the inquest ( which he did n't attend ) , he admitted through his lawyer that he may have been driving on the wrong side of the road . |
| 22 | But on closer examination he was forced to admit even he may have been wrong , and he demanded that the PWL stable looked after its young charges Kylie and Jason and prevented them from destroying their lives . |
| 23 | He may have been joking , but his fatalistic sentiment was in the sane vein as a cruel remark made as Davies 's men departed in triumph : ‘ We understood Eastbourne were the only team who have not applied for a postal vote in the General Election . ’ |
| 24 | He may have been influenced by his early days as a teenager in Cairo with his uncle or during his time in Hamburg . |
| 25 | Comparison of ‘ To Lucinda ’ with the first publication of ‘ The Rural Maid 's Reflexions ’ shows that Browne , for whatever reason , changed at least one title , though he may have been returning to the original . |
| 26 | He may have been smiling , but his tone did n't match the smile . |
| 27 | Would it be fair to say that you accepted his decision when you thought it was the right decision , regardless of whether he may have been depressed or he may have been under the influence of drugs or some other pressure ? |
| 28 | Would it be fair to say that you accepted his decision when you thought it was the right decision , regardless of whether he may have been depressed or he may have been under the influence of drugs or some other pressure ? |
| 29 | A Lord Spiritual he may have been , but not devoid of earthly ambitions and desire for wealth . |
| 30 | Successful he may have been in October-December 1976 at using the full Cabinet as a forum for crisis management , but Callaghan was not tempted to extend the practice in more tranquil times . |