Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [modal v] have been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he was a bit deadlier in the balls he 'd have been world champion . ’ |
| 2 | She likes to shock ; from current trends , the Gothic style pleases her ; in earlier years it would have been punk , or beatnik . |
| 3 | The life review can provide a means of re-establishing and confirming individual involvement with current reality , and linking their past work and efforts with the social change that has occurred , for in a variety of subtle ways they will have been part of the changes and developments that they are witnessing . |
| 4 | I said she could have taken a degree in her spare time in th she 's only she 's not yet forty I said that 's absolute rubbish I said th the world is full of these damn women going around saying , if only I had n't had children I could have been Lord Chief Justice of England , I said , it is n't true ! |
| 5 | If she and Tom had been two men he would have been discretion itself , she thought . |
| 6 | Women it may have been Women 's Institute Guild or something or I du n no . |