Example sentences of "[adv] have been [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes the ultimate question is only in theory left to the public authority ; for example , in some cases of review for jurisdictional errors of law or fact in which it is clear that if the authority had got the law or the facts right , its decision would have been different and could only have been one way . |
| 2 | And there may only have been one clock in the town where they worked and that would have been on the town hall or the church . |
| 3 | Then , as we neared the entrance , a ship came up astern , and she can only have been one of Everard 's sailing barges coming up on the tide . |
| 4 | He acknowledged the plate she set within his reach with an incomprehensible grunt , which might or might not have been one of thanks . |
| 5 | The police took what may or may not have been three different names and addresses and cautioned the men . |
| 6 | Until recently there would normally have been two interpretive stages . |
| 7 | I expect my aunt meant well ; I guess it might just have been one of her spasmodic assumptions of authority in the family — out of character and dramatic as these assumptions usually were . |
| 8 | But some things never change and the appalling weather might just have been one of the reasons why the Romans abandoned the village and Britain , 1,500 years ago . |
| 9 | But some things never change and the appalling weather might just have been one of the reasons why the Romans abandoned the village and Britain , 1,500 years ago . |
| 10 | It might easily have been six . |
| 11 | 0–0 at half time ( Poland had a couple of chances ) was 3–0 to us at the end — and could easily have been 5 or 6 . |
| 12 | Here , I used four different designs as they add interest , but they could easily have been four matching designs . |
| 13 | It was exciting end-to-end entertainment and it could easily have been two goals each after the opening quarter . |
| 14 | No , the fact of it was , Diane and her employer might easily have been two different species for the way that they looked at the world . |
| 15 | In the middle of the trivia , the stuff that could easily have been 1930 or 1960 , there was information for the gleaning . |
| 16 | There could scarcely have been two people more different from each other in character : the one motivated by a keen sense of order , rationality , and discipline ; the other driven by his emotions and whimsical fancy . |
| 17 | Helen had confessed at lunch that she would sooner have been three behind than three in front — and when news came , after the first 10 holes of the fourth round , that she had fallen one to the rear of the Australian , one had the feeling that she was merely paving the way for a last-minute attack . |
| 18 | It looked like two rooms in one , because that 's what it was ; Joe had recognised the layout as that of a disused encounter studio , a place whose sole commodity would once have been three or four minutes of stilted conversation with a naked woman in the armchair . |
| 19 | There are dresses for £2.99 , but some go up to £20 , but would probably have been two or three times that when new . |
| 20 | The sensitive area of defence should more realistically have been one of the last spheres for the renunciation of national sovereignty , with a solid background of integrative experience and mutual trust behind it . |
| 21 | So persistent was the language that it had become no more remarkable than just another wayward manner of speaking and their sons paid so little attention to it that it might well have been one of the many private languages of love . |
| 22 | In the history of English parliaments it was a decisive encounter , although in terms of Sussex where commoners rather than knights or lords died it may well have been one of the familiar disasters around which ordinary life had to continue . |
| 23 | The Texas prison system may well have been one of the fastest expanding systems in recent history . |
| 24 | This dilemma may well have been one of the factors that precipitated his eventual madness , which began in 1802 : that possibility adequately suggests the existential seriousness of the Greek ideal for the German writers under its spell . |
| 25 | For Gordon might well have been one of this newspaper 's very first journalists . |
| 26 | Some confusion exists as to the original scratchplate , and there may well have been two variations . |
| 27 | It might as well have been ten . |
| 28 | It might even have been seven . |
| 29 | I have no exact idea how many times he hit me , but it must surely have been six or more . |
| 30 | However , without the budget changes the deficit would reportedly have been 20,000,000 million zloty greater . |