Example sentences of "he [modal v] have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Jesus ’ as we have him may have been filtered through the patriarchal world which remembered him and wrote about him ( if the biblical authors were male ) . |
| 2 | With him may have been his father . |
| 3 | Well I I think its , the way that the plaintiff puts the case on that point my Lord is that even if the defendant Mr took the view er that it would not have been proper for such a notice to be served , in view of what the plaintiff was saying to him about his wish to get out of the contract , the fact that it was available to him should have been brought to his attention and then as Mr was saying that I sorry I do n't feel I can do this on your behalf because it 's not proper in the circumstances or whatever erm , should then have gone on to advise the plaintiff either to do it himself or to go and seek independent advice . |
| 4 | Whoever had called him must have been someone very powerful to make the head of the KGB jump like that . |
| 5 | Still less pleasing to him must have been the prospect that if his clerks ignored the order to jettison their excess cures of souls , they would suffer excommunication with all its attendant disabilities and interruption of his service . |
| 6 | In the Trocadero large quantities of objects were displayed in a crowded , haphazard fashion , and , while Picasso was undoubtedly overwhelmed by what he saw and experienced , the impression he carried away with him must have been of a very general , metaphysical kind . |
| 7 | Part of him would have been sorry to hear that she had been shot , or sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in the filth of an Austrian gaol . |
| 8 | As for Dennis , well , after that killing him would have been a kindness , would n't it ? |
| 9 | Which would have been doubly misleading for I had never felt more in search of company , nor indeed more indebted to Manhattan , the city without him being a great deal more like the city we had lived in together than anywhere else without him would have been . |
| 10 | He had no official status and no powers of arrest , but once he 'd identified Alina then the two officers along with him would have been able to detain her on immigration charges . |
| 11 | Now , in retrospect , she could see that marriage to him would have been a ghastly mistake , and that her reaction to discovering that he had been seeing other women while he had been engaged to her had had far more to do with wounded pride than with a wounded heart . |
| 12 | If only Morpurgo had been a less thoroughbred specimen the contrast with what had subsequently overtaken him would have been easier to accept . |
| 13 | Out of his professional need , he will have settled on a good working strain over the years and any surplus he may have is virtually guaranteed to be first-class . |
| 14 | Is it so likely that that man , however much he may have been struck by your beauty and gaiety , Miss Jonathan , would have at once decided to assassinate your future husband ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Besides , he may have been driven over the edge by her carryings-on . |
| 16 | He may have been missed on 96 by Morris , low at mid-wicket ; Morris may have decided that sections of the crowd would riot if he held it . |
| 17 | And Rosenberg : ‘ Utterly misguided he may have been , but he was honest in his own belief in what he was doing . ’ |
| 18 | But since he is Sir Anthony 's choice he may have been harmed by the Meyer candidacy . |
| 19 | He may have been right , in his day . |
| 20 | Quiet and reserved he may have been , but his determination to succeed has been of great importance to his colleagues , both on and off the field . |
| 21 | When he ‘ resigned ’ as a BBC radio producer in 1986 , he may have been pushed , but it was the start of a freelance career guaranteed to outrage the good citizens of Britain with a style of comedy that ranges from the macabre to the indecent . |
| 22 | He may have been genuinely distressed by the pain he was causing me — something he later confessed he had deliberately provoked , with subtle sadism masquerading as friendly frankness . |
| 23 | Later at the inquest ( which he did n't attend ) , he admitted through his lawyer that he may have been driving on the wrong side of the road . |
| 24 | But on closer examination he was forced to admit even he may have been wrong , and he demanded that the PWL stable looked after its young charges Kylie and Jason and prevented them from destroying their lives . |
| 25 | He may have been joking , but his fatalistic sentiment was in the sane vein as a cruel remark made as Davies 's men departed in triumph : ‘ We understood Eastbourne were the only team who have not applied for a postal vote in the General Election . ’ |
| 26 | He may have been influenced by his early days as a teenager in Cairo with his uncle or during his time in Hamburg . |
| 27 | Comparison of ‘ To Lucinda ’ with the first publication of ‘ The Rural Maid 's Reflexions ’ shows that Browne , for whatever reason , changed at least one title , though he may have been returning to the original . |
| 28 | He may have been smiling , but his tone did n't match the smile . |
| 29 | Would it be fair to say that you accepted his decision when you thought it was the right decision , regardless of whether he may have been depressed or he may have been under the influence of drugs or some other pressure ? |
| 30 | Would it be fair to say that you accepted his decision when you thought it was the right decision , regardless of whether he may have been depressed or he may have been under the influence of drugs or some other pressure ? |