Example sentences of "[modal v] have be [adv] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knows what shots sound like because he hunts , but he still thinks they might have been only firecrackers . |
| 2 | I could hear vague noises for a bit , but even straining I could n't make out what they were , and they could have been just noises on the line . |
| 3 | It may have been largely thanks to Lewis that Williams became something of a cult figure , idolized by pious lady dons , aspirant mystics and others . |
| 4 | ‘ Then they would have been here hours ago . |
| 5 | Before 1914 they would have been mainly peasant-workers commuting twice a year to the cities , gentry and their numerous domestic servants moving from their estates to town , kustari with their wares for sale , government servants , and the military , etc . |
| 6 | Ted ought to have been there years ago , he said , and now it 's time for Margaret to be elevated . |