Example sentences of "[adv] have been [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He might just have been another guitar player who ended up playing back-up for a lot of people , which was what he was doing in America . ’
2 There can hardly have been any business sector with so many strong contenders for it as the banking sector .
3 His harrying of Essex in 994 could well have been this second occasion , and if so the first may have been the Maldon campaign in 991 .
4 Killy had been triple gold medallist four years previously at Grenoble .
5 Since the Pan Am bombing there have been different security standards imposed on American-owned airlines depending on whether their flights are going to or from America .
6 It may even be fair to say that if this were not so , then surely there would never have been any life experience at all .
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