Example sentences of "he [modal v] have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Besides , he may have been driven over the edge by her carryings-on . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And Rosenberg : ‘ Utterly misguided he may have been , but he was honest in his own belief in what he was doing . ’ |
| 6 | But since he is Sir Anthony 's choice he may have been harmed by the Meyer candidacy . |
| 7 | He may have been right , in his day . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | He may have been influenced by his early days as a teenager in Cairo with his uncle or during his time in Hamburg . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He may have been smiling , but his tone did n't match the smile . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | A Lord Spiritual he may have been , but not devoid of earthly ambitions and desire for wealth . |
| 20 | Successful he may have been in October-December 1976 at using the full Cabinet as a forum for crisis management , but Callaghan was not tempted to extend the practice in more tranquil times . |
| 21 | Donaldson would have had no option but to make arrangements for the delegation , even though he may have been well aware of what the reaction would be . |
| 22 | It is sad in several ways , not just because it springs from genuine human grief but because poor Uncle Ted , no matter how theologically illiterate he may have been , deserves better . |
| 23 | He may have been an outstanding goalkeeper but he was hardly a product of the Harvard Business School . |
| 24 | When he came to the College , Coleman was presumably almost totally ignorant of veterinary matters ( although he may have been studying the subject during the ‘ interregnum ’ ) . |
| 25 | He may have been something of a money-hunter , as his correspondence shows , but on the other hand he had a big family of relatives with a call on him . |
| 26 | He may have been a time-server as his attitude about the Pole Nicolaus Copernicus suggests . |
| 27 | Hopkins , 54 , a reformed alcoholic , was desperately lonely at school and a poor student and he now thinks he may have been slightly dyslexic . |
| 28 | It was June ; it was Bexhill-on-Sea ; he may have been reading the county scores . |
| 29 | He may have been christened Henry but he 'll certainly be known as ‘ Hairy ’ . |
| 30 | He may have been pleased to get the job — but he was only shot into the spot in order to stand up for good , Christian , family values and to restore party morale in Cecil 's wake . |