Example sentences of "she [modal v] have be [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a literal Earth-mother , she may have been the prototype of the Rhea of the later myths , but we also know that at least in the fourteenth century BC the Minoans knew her as Eleuthia . |
| 2 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 3 | Although Mr Cross was perturbed at his strange encounter , he dismissed his consternation and decided that she must have been a village girl who had watched the train and then returned home . |
| 4 | I figured she must have been a masochist . |
| 5 | ‘ She must have been a woman of great taste . ’ |
| 6 | When she opened the door , they stopped talking , so she must have been the subject . |
| 7 | God , she must have been the prize dummy of all time . |
| 8 | she left that and she 's gone to do her midwifery and now when she gets the other day she was looking at old pay slips God , she must have been an idiot to give up a sister 's post cos she said her wages have dropped terrible to do this course ! |
| 9 | Many considered she should have been a member of the royal commission on population ( 1946–9 ) but she did give evidence and published her widely read The Population of Britain in 1947 . |
| 10 | With that spirit and her inventive brain , she should have been a boy , and together they would have run the world . |
| 11 | With her mass of dark hair , her so-called classical features , and a slender body , she might have been a Klimt model clad in sober woollies instead of erotic raiment . |
| 12 | For all I knew she might have been a psycho or a girl with a little blackmail on her mind . |
| 13 | Hoping for elegance ( such a strive ) and wishing she was taller for , although her figure was fine , given the height , two inches or four , she might have been a model . |
| 14 | She might have been a linguist , but he doubted it ; after all , the pictures told the story , language was not important . |
| 15 | In any other circumstances , Fabia felt that she might have been a trace worried — it was n't every day that she was in a foreign land , with a foreign male who , having fed her , tried his hand at seducing her . |
| 16 | I thought she might have been the subject of a newspaper article or something like that , but it was n't until later that I found out just how famous she was . |
| 17 | She might have been the headmistress of a certain type of girls ' school , now almost extinct , or a Mother Superior in an enclosed order . |
| 18 | That the cottage meant as much to her as it did to him was obvious , but it did n't occur to him that she might have been the intruder who had broken in . |
| 19 | She could have been a dancer if she 'd taken lessons . |
| 20 | She could have been a kitchen maid for all we know and your children … |
| 21 | She was wearing no make-up ; she could have been a girl fresh from the country . |
| 22 | She could have been a stranger . |
| 23 | She swivelled round on her heel , and struck a pose with her left hip thrown sideways , and her cigarette hand extended in a rather classical way She could have been a model , people always said so . |
| 24 | So , although interpreting her character nowadays , she is quite immoral and dishonest , to the Christian audience in those days , she would have been a heroine . |
| 25 | I accept from Mr that she would have been a trainee manager for some part of that time and I assess her salary as being something like seven thousand pounds net . |
| 26 | Had the yacht not lost her mast during one of the Lymington autumn series races last year , she would have been a contender for top boat . |
| 27 | ‘ She knew if she had attended one of the public services she would have been the centre of attention and the last thing she wanted was to be photographed as the woman alone . |