Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [been] [noun] or [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also ‘ bound with golden links ’ which might have been jewellery or chains . |
| 2 | But even more pressing was the need to escape from his discomforting gaze that could have been gratitude or suspicion or almost anything . |
| 3 | They reckon that Andropulos — if it was Andropulos , it could have been Alexander or Aristotle — made an amateurish blunder . |
| 4 | It could have been hours or minutes later that Isabel found herself staring into a dark pit . |
| 5 | Thus in our ‘ suicide ’ drama the adolescents , instead of being in role as members of the family concerned , could have been neighbours or reporters getting a good story . |
| 6 | She gave Kate a quick appraising glance and a nod which could have been acknowledgement or approval and said : |
| 7 | It could have been fear or sympathy or irritation or a combination of all three . |
| 8 | So the next stop could have been Blackpool or Plymouth if we had wished . |
| 9 | These may have been farmsteads or hamlets , but they were certainly not large or extensive enough to be villages , whatever their status or internal arrangements . |
| 10 | There may have been complications or separation at birth and the mother may have never really felt completely bonded to the child . |
| 11 | In two strides the Trunchbull was beside him , and by some amazing gymnastic trick , it may have been judo or karate , she flipped the back of Wilfred 's legs with one of her feet so that the boy shot up off the ground and turned a somersault in the air . |
| 12 | Such travellers may have been missionaries or emissaries , but the term presumably also encompasses those involved in commerce irrespective of whether they originated from across the English Channel . |
| 13 | Originally the nut would have been bone or brass , although JD could n't specify which . |
| 14 | What he actually did was right or wrong according to the criteria we have discussed , while his intention was right or wrong , on Bentham 's view , according as to whether his action would have been right or wrong if things had turned out as he expected . |
| 15 | The Domesday Survey records a mill at Hucclecote which would have been Pitts or Ptymilne Mill . |