Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [verb] [been] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The presence of Bedu may have been one reason for this — the marvellous rhythmical qualities of her movement and her simple ideas built up with many possibilities ( ! ) ensured some wonderful sessions . |
| 2 | If , as suggested above , he faced considerable initial hostility , and presided over a government which some churchmen found oppressive , religion could have been one way in which opposition was expressed . |
| 3 | ‘ To have banned him for a few months would have been one thing , but to take him to court and ban him for life seemed to defeat the object of the exercise . ’ |
| 4 | But it raises the question whether a celebration of the sciences might have been one means of differentiating Protestant cultural values from those of Roman Catholicism . |
| 5 | Metaphysics would have been one way out , but he ca n't take that , so the alternative is to be a persecuted prophet . |
| 6 | An anonymous telephone call to the police must have been one option ; but that seemed unlikely because in that case the police would already be here . |
| 7 | In villages where there were four arable fields a typical set of crops would have been one field of wheat , one of barley , one of beans with one other field , known as the fallow , given over to grazing . |
| 8 | He never explained his reasons ; but obedience to his consecration oath of fidelity to the church of Canterbury would have been one reason , and the desire for absolute stability in gifts to the saints another . |