Example sentences of "this [modal v] have be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may have been Nicholas 's opinion of himself , but it did not affect many of his actions . |
| 2 | Müncheberg 's second victim crashed near a crossroads at Wardia with the pilot apparently dead ; this may have been Mortimer 's aircraft . |
| 3 | This may have been coincidence or , as we noted earlier , a deliberate ploy to enhance his own standing . |
| 4 | This may have been Painswick near Stroud , which has a long-standing tradition of clipping , as he was in Gloucestershire at one time . |
| 5 | This may have been Swegen 's response to the attempts by Æthelred to get Norman help reported by Henry of Huntingdon under 1009 . |
| 6 | Douglas Kilvington of Kirkstall wrote in querying the ‘ Cufton ’ and making the point that this should have been Clifton . |
| 7 | This must have been part of a Roman cemetery as again in 1926 near this spot workmen digging on the edge of Lee 's Great Quarry ( Houlder Quarry ) , 20 yards from Clements Farm found a quantity of human bones and pottery . |
| 8 | He called it the Common Red Rose and described it as having ‘ flowers not very double , open wide ’ , indicating that this must have been Rosa gallica officinalis or the Apothecary 's Rose . |
| 9 | Bath are virtually unbeatable … that 's the first point to make and even for Gloucester on top form this would have been mission impossible … the cherry and whites self destructed though … they missed five kicks and presented the champions with at least two tries … in all Bath got six … |