Example sentences of "[adv] have been [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | He may also have been hit with a rifle butt afterwards.Joan Mann told the hearing that she understood there were several traitors in the Croat camp . |
| 32 | It might also have been caused by a dry soldered joint , that is , one which can make and break with expansion when warm . |
| 33 | In addition to costs incurred by such a person which would also have been incurred by a solicitor acting on his or her behalf , the court can allow on taxation a sum not more than two-thirds of that which a solicitor would have been allowed for profit costs . |
| 34 | Either the C scribe or one of his predecessors added to the 1017 entry that the ætheling Eadwig was afterwards killed , and ( perhaps inadvertently ) omitted from it the expulsion of Eadwig king of the ceorls , which appears under 1020 ; the information in 1030 that Olaf " was afterwards holy " ( i.e. regarded as a saint ) must also have been included at a fairly late stage in C 's composition . |
| 35 | We are persuaded to think that some of these qualities must also have been shared by a wider spectrum of staff . |
| 36 | If allies were able to provide the necessities of life , primitive valuables could have acted as a medium of exchange ; primitive valuables may also have been used as a means of contracting alliances as may marriages between members of different political groups . |
| 37 | R.R. Darlington stressed that the ecclesiastical content of several tenth-century law codes suggests that they originated as the canons of synods. Æthelstan 's first code , for example , and his Ordinance on Charities , both say that they were framed on the advice of Archbishop Wulfhelm of Canterbury and other bishops , and the text known as I Edmund appears from its prologue to be a set of decisions taken purely by the ecclesiastical wing of the witan ( royal council ) ; they may eventually have been issued as a royal decree , but that I Edmund in its surviving form is something other than this is implied by the fifth chapter , which exhorts the king to put churches in order . |
| 38 | These may originally have been compiled by a Touraine monastic house so that the new rulers of the area could be commemorated in its prayers ; but like the genealogies of the comital house of Flanders , they were soon adapted to a more secular purpose . |
| 39 | These would originally have been topped with a fence of dead wood or a live hedge to keep the animals out . |
| 40 | There is a bitter twist of irony in these last lines which completely changes the complexion of what might before have been viewed as a sentimental poem . |
| 41 | Saddiqi , a learned and formidable intellectual , was embarrassed if not frightened , because his answer could never before have been given by a subject to the Shahanshah , King of Kings , Light of the Aryans , Muhammad Reza Pahlavi , Hesitantly , he said it was because no one wanted to be associate with the Shah . |
| 42 | Hunting may well have been seen as a pleasurable distraction , but from a practical point of view the bow and arrow is more useful . |
| 43 | Moreover , it should be noted that according to this distinction the central detail in the Christianson and Loftus ( 1991 ) study might well have been categorized as a peripheral detail . |
| 44 | But for the intervention of a lone SS soldier in black battledress , he and his navigator , the Australian Donald Walsh , might well have been lynched by a hostile crowd aboard the train carrying them to interrogation . |
| 45 | there is a basic four-chord harmonic sequence , used as a structural underpinning for much of the piece ; in a conventional rock song this might well have been deployed as a rift or worked into predictable phrase-structure patterns . |
| 46 | The Zuccarelli recordings so far demonstrated could well have been made with a simple dummy head , incorporating reflectors or circuits to emphasise this effect . |
| 47 | Over its last two decades , slight improvement in some areas may well have been offset by a measure of decline in industrialising areas like the west Midlands and south Lancashire . |
| 48 | The desire to make arrangements covertly could well have been affected by a double pressure . |
| 49 | Richard also seems to have felt a special devotion for the shrine of Bury St Edmund 's — he may well have been attracted by a cult which celebrated a king who died in the struggle against pagans . |
| 50 | It may well have been rooted in a repressed homosexuality according to the psychoanalytic model . |
| 51 | He could have side-stepped the issue completely , but he chose to give a frank response , dismissing as ‘ garbage ’ a Federal Bureau of Narcotics ' pamphlet which described marijuana as ‘ a powerful narcotic in which lurks murder , insanity and death ’ , words that might well have been taken as a reference to events in Hollywood , because they were almost identical to words used by the mass media in descriptions of Manson . |
| 52 | Amongst other things , the computer was used to display a conventional set of instructions that could equally well have been provided in a printed form . |
| 53 | Singh , while holding a Green Card , was not a full US citizen and might simply have been released as a gesture . |
| 54 | He could even have been hit by a car . |
| 55 | Every order made in such a cause or matter by an English court , is an order in a criminal cause or matter , even though the order , taken by itself , is neutral in character and might equally have been made in a cause or matter which is not criminal . |
| 56 | The account hovers on the brink of farce , and must surely have been intended as a spine-chiller more analogous to a modern horror film than a literal description of something which was to be believed in . |
| 57 | He had previously written a journalistic piece about the killings , in which De Freitas figured as shabby and contemptible , and Gail Benson as a silly upper-class woman whose accessibility to the knife might almost have been construed as a last desperate act of Sixties modishness : an antic exported from Swinging London . |
| 58 | My forest of trees could indeed have been turned into a forest of nerves , with each jagged branch poking into that guilty skull like the accusing fingers of God 's darker or more vengeful angels . |
| 59 | Whipping up nationalistic sentiment is not difficult to do with Chinese students because of an underlying layer of patriotic sentiment and if there is any substance to this ‘ conspiracy ’ theory , the African students may indeed have been used as a diversion . |
| 60 | A tumulus on the summit ridge is evidence that it was known , probably as a hunting ground , and may indeed have been occupied as a settlement by primitive man . |