Example sentences of "[conj] they [modal v] have [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or they may have been hunters after larger prey , in which case when appendages are eventually discovered they may prove to have adaptations for grasping and manipulating larger food . |
| 2 | But in addition there was apparently some connection between their grandparents so they may have been cousins also . |
| 3 | Nowadays they 're holidaymakers ponytrekking … once they would have been shepherds riding down from the Welsh mountains . |
| 4 | On another low table by the wall there was an inexpensive stereo unit and some uneven stacks of records ; he could n't make out the details on the posters on the wall above the unit , but they might have been Escher prints . |
| 5 | Fight as they did to keep the canoe on course they were driven westward of Castiglione ( near Sidi Ferruch ) when they should have been east of this port . |