Example sentences of "[noun prp] have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( And how could Gyggle have been stupid enough to imagine that he was dead ? ) |
| 2 | Why should Utopia have been such an all-pervading failure . |
| 3 | And yet , if it had not been a conquered repressed country from which so many of the flower of its youth were forced to escape , would Ireland have been able to produce sons like Henry Ford ? |
| 4 | Now you might say , er , that , that , that 's very paradoxical , why should Darwin have been prepared to consider Lamarckism , even evolution by will Lamarckism in psychology , when he , when he would n't accept it , for instance , in talking about the , the lengthening of the necks of giraffes . |
| 5 | We bought our ball in Dongbei too — from the no.1 department store in Dandong on the North Korean border ( could Korea have been the original influence ? ) . |
| 6 | Or , very tentatively , and with much temerity , could Wheeler have been wrong ? |
| 7 | Might not the Buddha have been saying that the self is none of these constituents , nor all of them in combination , but something other , something that owns , uses and directs these faculties ? |
| 8 | Would Mr Amos have been pilloried in this way if the other person had been a female ? |
| 9 | ‘ If it had n't been for Home Rule in the South , would Ulster have been ruled by Presbyterians in Belfast ? ’ |
| 10 | Rather could Offa have been securing himself in territory only recently recovered from Cynewulf . |
| 11 | THE New Zealand selectors of the World XV who invited South African centre MARTIN KNOETZE to step in for England 's Will Carling have been labouring under a rather severe misapprehension . |
| 12 | Might Tavaré have been a better choice as captain ( than Willis ) in 1982 ? |
| 13 | And how could Emily have been the culprit ? |
| 14 | How much would Mrs Tremayne have been told ? |
| 15 | Could Jones have been urged into ‘ fast forward ’ mode in a desire to beat the chemists ? |
| 16 | Why should Araminta have been jealous of Benedict 's mother ? |
| 17 | Will Oxford have been a good background for the US Presidency ? |
| 18 | Where can Jenny have been , in the course of her adolescence , to be willing , if only out of nervousness , to accept that the Reds in Spain have been swept out from under the bed and up into mountain caves ? |
| 19 | Could Filmer have been so stupid as to get the horses ' names wrong in addition to the cities ? |
| 20 | Yet if they were referring to a legitimate title , why should not Pilate have been doing so as well ? |
| 21 | ‘ Would James have been one of those people , by any chance ? ’ |
| 22 | ' Whatever could Aunt Louise have been saying ? |