Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] have [been] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides Irish Mail and her stable mate Montalban we were delighted to welcome back a regular visitor in Peter Pan , the immaculate Wren Class Kerr Stuart of Graham Morris , while the show stopper must surely have been Chaloner , the vertical-boilered locomotive by De Winton from Leighton Buzzard Railway . |
| 2 | Except for whatever part of her that might once have been Jenny . |
| 3 | He deduced that the name might formerly have been Craingeau , Graingeau or Gringaud , any one of which would be pronounced sufficiently like Cranko to become transformed . |
| 4 | ‘ It might even have been Margaret 's fruit cake , for all I know . |
| 5 | It might well have been Piladu 's son . |
| 6 | And among that crowd , while she waited , might well have been Chrissie . |
| 7 | So when the third Whitley appeared overhead ( incidentally , Murphy said that could only have been Mahaddie ) Donnet recalled thinking that was no gentleman , and that was no Englishman . |
| 8 | Fifteen minutes later , a woman , who could only have been Sara , found the door unbarred . |
| 9 | It was thanks to them that he learned that the hunt was on for a leak on the Washington embassy wartime staff which could only have been Maclean . |
| 10 | ‘ It could still have been Brampton ! ’ |
| 11 | Yes , it could still have been Tutilo who finished what Jerome had begun . ’ |
| 12 | Fitzgerald was fascinated by the director type and in his story ‘ Mightier than the sword ’ he offered a portrait of a man who could well have been King Vidor : |
| 13 | The two were just muscle , but the third man could well have been Michael Lee , Katherine Lundy 's notorious henchmen . |
| 14 | Had Norwich not defeated Notts County in the fifth round that afternoon , it could well have been Mr Stringer 's first and last address to the nation 's footballing public . |
| 15 | ‘ That could never have been John . |
| 16 | And whilst it was never , it could never have been God 's will for Naomi to backslide with Elimelech her husband , and to go into Moab out of the mess that they make of their life , out of the mistakes that they , they perpetrate again and again , God somehow in his graciousness , in his mercy brings goodness from it ! |
| 17 | Speaking to people nicely may well have been William Charles 's greatest worldly asset , one which would enable him to make a living in the great metropolis , for all his lack of more specific skills . |
| 18 | I heard my name being called , it may well have been Louis erm come forward and I heard it , I understood it to be P C voice . |
| 19 | It may actually have been Gandhi who was responsible for his optimism about this . |