Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [adv] have be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mr Stevens , I may not have been a housekeeper for long , but I would say that in the time I have been , my abilities have attracted some very generous remarks . ’ |
| 2 | But I should n't have pa , I should n't have been a dri , I 'm not a driver . |
| 3 | I do n't regret it , of course — I might never have been a priest otherwise — but I often think that that 's why I just do n't seem able to come to grips with the modern world . ’ |
| 4 | Our respective manners proved so widely different , that it would have been quite presumptuous in me to do anything but separate from an undertaking upon which I could only have been a clog . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I would n't have been a doctor , ’ he shivered with tiredness , ill at ease by the very suggestion of a shape other than his own . |
| 6 | Cos the fact that they only went down there , came back and were milling around waiting I would n't have been a bit surprised cos the car was a filthy old car . |
| 7 | ‘ If I had , I would n't have been an actor . |
| 8 | I 'm almost certain I would never have been a writer if it was n't for the Moroneys . |
| 9 | ‘ I would never have been a dancer or believed I could do anything if it had not been for him , ’ said Crawford . |
| 10 | While there may have been isolated instances which appear to confirm this interpretation ( for example , in 1970 the Soviet Union bought up Costa Rica 's excess of coffee , which may well have been a factor contributing to the establishment of diplomatic relations the following year ) , other such instances have been similarly small-scale and the evidence overall is against it . |
| 11 | When a city and its territory was divided between two kings we should understand that it was their revenues that were at stake , although certain cities also had a strategic importance , which may also have been a matter of concern . |
| 12 | Churches remain at Maddington , Shrewton , and Rollestone , while Elston formerly had a chapel which may once have been a church . |
| 13 | Their green eyes fell on the strange eight-legged carving — which may indeed have been a spider , or an octopus , or may yet again have been something altogether more strange and they immediately decided that they were n't so hungry , at that . |
| 14 | He had no idea she already had suspicions which might well have been a contributory factor to her miscarriage . |
| 15 | They were in another disused , rubble-filled space which might once have been a yard or garden . |
| 16 | Pleading poverty , he sought charity from local shopkeepers , and a butcher gave him an enormous turkey , which might actually have been a small emu . |
| 17 | Excited to find she could just make out traces of narrow fields with dividing banks and walls , she ventured further towards a rounded mound which could well have been an Iron Age barrow , and just beyond it she found the standing stone , where she shivered pleasurably , her imagination running riot about the monolith 's precise function in the days when the settlement had been a live , thriving community . |
| 18 | There is also a small late building on a totally different alignment ( almost east-west ) which could perhaps have been a small Christian shrine , erected to counteract pagan influence . |
| 19 | There was no other answer which would not have been a lie . |
| 20 | Other tombstones tell us a little about the inhabitants of the town , and include F. Antigonus Papias , a citizen of Greece and possibly a Christian , who may also have been a merchant . |
| 21 | Now obviously Elizabeth Taylor can demand her own terms — she 's one of the biggest stars in the world and she could easily have been a prima donna . |
| 22 | Wanting what you could n't have was a waste of time . |
| 23 | ‘ Ah , but you need not have been an outcast , ’ shrewdly guessed the old lady . |
| 24 | In the last decade , as we have seen , conventional retail credit has kept more or less in line with changes in the volume of consumer spending ; there may even have been a slight decline . |
| 25 | There may even have been a certain temperamental affinity between Baden-Powell 's Scouting philosophy and the restless energies of Hooliganism , and he was even so outrageous as to recommend the Hooligans to the National Defence Association as ‘ the best class of boy ’ : Predictably , his remarks invited the characteristic reversal of the problem , when a member of the National Defence Association asked : |
| 26 | There may even have been a whole series of such usurpations , but the original replication process must have been sufficiently simple to have come about through what I have dubbed ‘ single-step selection ’ . |
| 27 | There may also have been a second such experience immediately prior to the Battle of Milvian Bridge , at which Constantine defeated his rival for the imperial throne . |
| 28 | There may also have been a breach of the peace and the prospect of its repetition , so that the common law powers will also continue to apply . |
| 29 | Material now with The Observer — which we are still checking — suggests that there may well have been a group hostile to Sir Harold Wilson ( and hostile to leaders of the Liberal party ) extending far beyond a ‘ faction of MI5' . |
| 30 | He was certainly living on Iona on the eve of Ecgfrith 's final campaign , and there may well have been a delay of a month or so before he became king , but to suppose a delay of seven months or more seems unwarranted . |