Example sentences of "and [modal v] have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | That summer of 1920 he had conversations which affected his mind and may have been decisive indirectly for his future choice of career . |
| 2 | In many cases , ordinary infections could be pinpointed , though some deaths were left unexplained and may have been due to EBHS . |
| 3 | There has been speculation that the body was booby-trapped before it left Awiel , and may have been timed to explode in mid-air . |
| 4 | Telepathic communication , for us still the domain of science fiction or fringe experimentation , may be part of a dolphin 's daily life , and may have been so for centuries . |
| 5 | The number of cases is not recorded ; the number of deaths is officially put at 855 , and may have been much higher , since diarrhoea is so common there that it often goes unreported . |
| 6 | In the case of Augustus we are lucky enough to have the text of The Achievements of the Divine Augustus , which was inscribed on public buildings all over the Roman world and may have been written by Augustus himself during the course of his reign . |
| 7 | There were no horse-drawn wagons , but one of the trailers looked very old-fashioned and may have been home-made . |
| 8 | The sauropods have relatively long , pillar-like legs , resembling those of the elephant , the largest living land animal , and may have been well adapted for supporting the huge bulk of the animal . |
| 9 | This was after the 4472 hauled special , and may have been the final working into Hyde 's . |
| 10 | It has been intermittently active throughout history and may have been even more active in Greek and Roman times than it is now . |
| 11 | Amongst smaller introduced animals are fire ants , which out-compete with the native ants ( and which can cause uncomfortable nights for camping scientists ) ; and cockroaches , which have been discovered on one or two islands and may have been transported inadvertently amongst supplies destined for scientists doing long-term research . |
| 12 | And in 1972 the matching shoulder blades , vertebrae and pelvis of a sauropod even bigger than Brachiosaurus was dragged from the clay in Colorado : the largest vertebra was about 1.5 metres long , suggesting the animal was more than 16 metres tall , weighing over 80 tons and may have been 3 metres in length . |
| 13 | Most often , though , lamas were stylistically portrayed as winged hybrid creatures and may have been linked to the later goddess-spirit who presided over the home and heart , Lamaria . |
| 14 | By the 1060s , it supported a cattle market and a mint , and may have been the shire 's legal centre ; across the river from the main town , a growing suburban hamlet formed the nucleus of the modern Cliffe . |
| 15 | Catchwords are particularly vulnerable when the pages are being trimmed and may have been removed by clumsy cropping . |
| 16 | The holiday was particularly useful for children who are still coming to terms with their conditions and may have been robbed of their self-confidence . |
| 17 | They seem to have happened periodically over the last 900 million years , and may have been doing so since the early days of Earth ( the longer ago something happened , the less likely it is that we will have tripped over the evidence ) . |
| 18 | AD 700 was provided with an incipient keel and may have been able to bear the greater stresses of a sail . |
| 19 | The evidence about the constructs of another person is indirect and may have been deliberately obscured or falsified . |
| 20 | These goddesses were very simple , and may have been armless , like the earliest wooden idols on mainland Greece . |
| 21 | Solutions in terms of this everyday discourse could have and may have been thought of by the client , who had come to the solicitor for a legal rather than an everyday solution . |
| 22 | For example , many of the predominantly Hindu women from India would have been vegetarian whereas Muslim women from Pakistan and Bangladesh would have eaten meat and may have been infected while preparing raw meat . |
| 23 | There is also the great hill-figure , the Cerne Giant , which has been identified as Hercules and may have been one of many such figures . |
| 24 | It has been suggested that this form derives from that of the structure of the human eye itself , and may have been conceived by the theologist Fra' Paolo Sarpi , who collaborated on eye research in 1581–84 with Girolamo Fabrizio d'Acquapendente . |
| 25 | Thomas Hardy was employed by both architects and may have been involved in the work . |
| 26 | Phormio 's alliance was hardly , given the distance of Akarnania from Athens , the considered policy of the Athenian Assembly — the general just made it on the spot — and may have been mere opportunism , for Athens made many alliances which never came to anything and were not expected to . |
| 27 | An agreeable contrast is furnished by the light-hearted productions of an exquisite artist who worked with , and may have been identical with , a potter Amasis ( fig. 56 ) . |
| 28 | Two thirds of those with baseline hypoxaemia had been born preterm and may have been suffering mild , clinically unapparent chronic lung disease . |
| 29 | In the entire study population the associations , particularly with periodontal disease , were weak and may have been due to small biases or residual confounding . |
| 30 | The knife handle was found in Colchester and may have been used by a legionary . |