Example sentences of "have be a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it may have been a grunt of irritation that his lovely hire-car was steaming up with two sweaty , stinking hill-walkers who had forced their way in uninvited , but I prefer to think disbelief . |
| 2 | The same passage , despite the narrow constriction of the valley at Djerdap , as the Danube forces its way between the Transylvanian Alps to the north and the Stara Planina to the south , may also have been a route for invaders into the Roman province of Pannonia , although the Iron Gate Pass , some 130 km ( 80 miles ) further north , afforded a better route for the Goths who descended on Pannonia from Transylvania in the middle of the fourth century AD . |
| 3 | It might have been a question of time , it may have been a question of tooling , it may have been a question of instruments , it may have been a question of materials , raw materials , or a compilation of all of these things . |
| 4 | It might have been a question of time , it may have been a question of tooling , it may have been a question of instruments , it may have been a question of materials , raw materials , or a compilation of all of these things . |
| 5 | In any case , it must have been a question of degree . |
| 6 | It might have been a question of time , it may have been a question of tooling , it may have been a question of instruments , it may have been a question of materials , raw materials , or a compilation of all of these things . |
| 7 | It might have been a question of time , it may have been a question of tooling , it may have been a question of instruments , it may have been a question of materials , raw materials , or a compilation of all of these things . |
| 8 | They would be hard to remember ; they would have been a nuisance to printers , who would have had to make a whole series of new pieces of type ; but perhaps most important , they were ambiguous . |
| 9 | Since , in northern climes , water-clocks must have been a nuisance in winter when they froze , in the fourteenth century sand-clocks were invented . |
| 10 | If the Queen 's telescope had been able to reach into Patrick 's classroom , there would have been a surprise in store for her — but not for Patrick , who at least affects to believe the story that Orwellian minders are peering at the punters from the screens of the punters ' television sets . |
| 11 | Firstly , there must at least once have been a flow of funds from savers to the trust and on to borrowers , when the trust was first established . |
| 12 | Until quite recently there might have been a sting of sarcasm in her voice , the anger of the betrayed . |
| 13 | Had the conservatives prevailed completely , there could have been a reconciliation with Rome after the death of both Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn in 1536 , when the occasion of the dispute was thus ended . |
| 14 | He may have been a character in Kilburn 's past , but a folklorist , N A Hudleston , suggested he was Grim , otherwise the Norse god Odin . |
| 15 | I think the image might have been a ghost-negative of doctor number one — his black tracksuit and powerpack plimsolls , and the satisfied wince he gave as he pointed at my chest with a shake of his head . |
| 16 | That must have been a shock to Place . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It must have been a shock to Miss Garland , coming so soon after her father 's death . ’ |
| 18 | There may have been a grain of truth in this , and indeed the symptoms suffered by many people were real enough , but it was question-begging in the extreme to say that the states of mind induced were due to evil forces . |
| 19 | It should have been a crow of triumph , but Robbie felt very far from exalted . |
| 20 | They met with little armed resistance ( which must have been a relief to Louis , who had little confidence in his own military skill ) , and gained considerable incidental profit : the king 's person was seen in an area unvisited since the reign of Louis IV ; the counts of Nevers , Chalon , and Mâcon were brought to heel ; Burgundian lords appealed for the king 's mediation in their quarrels ( he also sought theirs ) ; the count of Forez , hitherto only a vassal of the Emperor , declared his most important castles to be held as fief of the crown of France , the first step in the integration of Forez into the French realm . |
| 21 | As a result of the improved revaluation changes , explained earlier , this option could be considerably more attractive than it would have been a couple of years ago . |
| 22 | There would have been no great age of dinosaurs , but there would have been a flowering of mammals 130 million years earlier . |
| 23 | The barrage could have been a symbol of determination and hope for the Merseyside region . |
| 24 | ‘ This may have been a mixture of excitement , curiosity and immaturity — and the payment of money by the accused may have had an influence , ’ he said . |
| 25 | There must have been a blueprint in F.B.I.H.Q. for Legal Attachés ' premises , because the set-up in London , the mechanism of the outer security door , was identical to the one in Rome . |
| 26 | Their last meal in it should have been a kind of sacrament . |
| 27 | Charlton thought it may have been a kind of store-yard where goods for the abbey were landed and deposited . |
| 28 | ‘ You must have been a kid in school ! |
| 29 | Although there may have been a settlement of Illyrian-Greeks there before the second century BC when the Roman occupation of Dalmatia began , there is little evidence of continuous use of the site until the seventh century AD . |
| 30 | It may have been a sign of things to come that though the strike led to a long lasting respect between Havelock Wilson and Tom Mann , no such relationship developed with Ben Tillett , who in his recollections of the strike refrains from making mention of Wilson at all . |