Example sentences of "have been a [noun] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought it must have been a road block because one said to the other : ‘ Go for it ’ and they speeded up . |
| 2 | And , and I mean I , I , I 'm making I 'm mak I 'm deliberately making these points because he is viewed as someone who perhaps would n't have been a Sun type but more of a , a Telegraph type or whatever , but when you 've analyzed his , his words and his speeches and everything else in terms of what we 're talking about the tabloids or broadsheets or whatever , you know he would , his language would have fitted in more neatly to the tabloid style than the the Telegraph style . |
| 3 | The narrower part , c. 3 m ( 10 ft ) wide , running the full length of the north side , could have been a service corridor or store for fodder ; alternatively , this could have housed up to 15 or more horses , with the wider section accommodating carts , wagons , fodder or other stores . |
| 4 | It may have been a domus inclusa but is now a coal hole . |
| 5 | I 'm not suggesting that legislators woke up one morning and said : ‘ We must abolish slavery ! ’ or ‘ Bear baiting must cease ! ’ , but for the position to have changed from tacit acceptance to wholesale condemnation , there must have been a fulcrum point when the arguments tipped decidedly in one direction . |
| 6 | Well black leading was a sort of erm going out cleaning the old fireplaces , for people that were slightly better off than we were , their husbands might have been a tram driver or a railway driver . |
| 7 | Similarly , if the client would have been a market counterparty if the firm had dealt with him direct , he will not be a customer in any event . |
| 8 | I imagine it must have been a cypress tree since they prune the lower branches leaving a swordlike edge sticking up . |
| 9 | Murray 's new all-comers ' mark was one of six set on Saturday — along with Olympic champion Maksim Tarasov 's 5.81m pole vault , Jon Edwards 's 17.16m triple jump and Michael Johnson 's incredible 400m in 45.14 , which could have been a world record if he had not eased up . |