Example sentences of "[modal v] have be [num] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brother Joachim , like many of the Franciscans , must have been one of these . |
| 2 | It must have been one of those little short-necked electric guitars that Lindley had . |
| 3 | It must have been one of those men Angy sketched … the one she was talking about packing up . |
| 4 | When we got on the plane , we appreciated the Chinese caution : it was a rather ancient Russian prop-driven machine , which must have been one of those the Russians bequeathed to the Chinese when they went home in the early 1960s , taking all their spare parts with them . |
| 5 | not the first or the fourth it must have been one of those in the middle , but I 'm not sure which one it was . |
| 6 | I could have been one of those prophets who foretold him . |
| 7 | ‘ He could have been one of several . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Hallucigenia may have been one of these . |
| 10 | The parish boundaries were often indistinct until after the Norman conquest , but there may have been 150 of these by 1066 . |
| 11 | Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French . |