Example sentences of "they [modal v] have [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The banker sat at an enormous desk surrounded by acres of carpet , in a room hung with what looked like Dutch Old Masters , though I suppose they may have been reproductions . |
| 2 | But in addition there was apparently some connection between their grandparents so they may have been cousins also . |
| 3 | Or they may have been hunters after larger prey , in which case when appendages are eventually discovered they may prove to have adaptations for grasping and manipulating larger food . |
| 4 | They may have been colleagues , school friends or bowls partners with whom we shared moments of laughter , persecution or triumph . |
| 5 | They must have been sleepers . |
| 6 | Then a police car pulled in behind , then another one , and four lovely bobbies got out and told the Americans — well , they must have been Americans , and huge they were — to put their guns away or be disarmed . |
| 7 | Fight as they did to keep the canoe on course they were driven westward of Castiglione ( near Sidi Ferruch ) when they should have been east of this port . |
| 8 | Programmed visits , yes , I think they 'll have been debt inspections that have carried out , whereas the higher figures above them are audit , and these are the ones that take more time , and are programmed to deal with everything , you know . |
| 9 | The whole route was lined by men of the Cent-Gardes , whose immobility was such that according to one guest ‘ they might have been statues ’ , but she felt unable to study them in detail , so terrified was she of slipping on the highly polished parquet that her whole mind was fixed on arriving safely at the dining room . |
| 10 | Apart from their costumes and the props that they carried , they might have been factory workers anywhere . |
| 11 | But er they might have been assumptions that we should n't have made . |
| 12 | They might have been lovers . |
| 13 | On another low table by the wall there was an inexpensive stereo unit and some uneven stacks of records ; he could n't make out the details on the posters on the wall above the unit , but they might have been Escher prints . |
| 14 | They might have been twins . |
| 15 | Indeed , they could have been Hal and his rascally crew . |
| 16 | They could have been members of the House of Atreus . |
| 17 | From here she could get a glimpse of the houses : ‘ luxury ’ newly-built bungalows , double garages , big picture windows , young trees , landscaped gardens with lawns so smooth and green they could have been carpets . |
| 18 | Jeans , but clean and spruce and I said I have a feeling they could have been police . |
| 19 | Despite the ten-year gap in their ages — Burt is 56 and Tom 46 — they could have been twins . |
| 20 | It is extremely probable that nine days later they would have been part of the 1000 Bomber Raid on Cologne . |
| 21 | Nowadays they 're holidaymakers ponytrekking … once they would have been shepherds riding down from the Welsh mountains . |
| 22 | Isidore of Seville ( d. 636 ) summed it all up thus : ‘ many who bear the attacks of the adversary and resist the desires of the flesh are martyrs , even in the time of peace , in virtue of this self-immolation to God in their heart : they would have been martyrs in the time of the persecutions ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |