Example sentences of "have be an [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The predictable result would have been an intensification of agriculture and we may be witnessing this in the drift of settlements ending on more fertile and productive soils and the changes in cereal crops being cultivated . |
| 2 | On the other hand , even if in Dunbartonshire Campbell influence was too powerful to be shaken by those who were resentful , in a county which was less securely held , and where a powerful opposition was in being , tactics like those of Colonel Campbell would have been an invitation to disaster . |
| 3 | Clérisseau 's knowledge of the Roman baths , which he had studied with Adam , would have been an asset to Cameron , though it is not known what share Clérisseau had in the preparation of Cameron 's book , The Baths of the Romans , which , after various delays , was published in London in 1772 . |
| 4 | It could have been an attack on Spiderglass itself . ’ |
| 5 | Of course Hayward 's physical condition was such that he could no longer live alone — he had spent the war years as a guest of the Rothschilds in Cambridge and there must have been an element of sympathy or even pity in Eliot 's invitation to him ; the presence of old-fashioned Yankee rectitude in his character , and the quiet acceptance of " duty " in his role as Hayward 's companion and helper , can not be ignored . |
| 6 | If Mr X gives property to his settlement there will clearly have been an element of bounty . |
| 7 | I have always found the quality to be of an extremely high standard and presumed that with the publicity generated by the 150th anniversary celebrations last year , there would have been an increase in interest in the magazine . |
| 8 | As John Blair says for Lewes , ‘ the creation of a group of holdings within a convenient radius and accessible from one manorial centre must have been an act of policy by the priory or its patrons ’ . |
| 9 | Fortunately , what might have been an area of conflict has been modified by compromise . |
| 10 | The annihilation of the Baltic fleet a few days later in the Straits of Tsushima was almost unbelievable and was the first defeat of a great power in modern history by an Asian state and for that reason alone Japan 's success might have been an example for Vietnam . |
| 11 | At which point Malcolm explains that he was merely pretending , in order to test his countryman , who might have been an emissary of Macbeth 's : Duncan had trusted his kinsman , and host , and been murdered for his pains . |
| 12 | The families of the two dead teenagers say there must have been an alternative to opening fire . |
| 13 | Nor , it seemed , did they even suspect the existence of Station X. After all , Bletchley was an important railway junction , and the lines gleaming in the moonlight could have been an aid to enemy reconnaissance planes and bombers . |
| 14 | His partner was the curvaceous Jill Ireland , who made it all seem no less exciting to her than would have been an embrace from Gregory Peck . |