Example sentences of "[adv] have been that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of his objection may also have been that one 's trade and one 's home had in most cases parted company by that date , a development that William Morris was later to deplore . |
| 2 | Could it also have been that the extent of available free labour resources had been exaggerated ? |
| 3 | It may also have been that the government was unwilling to lend further strength to the clamour for the reform of the Official Secrets Act ( which has now happened ) that had been mounting for some years . |
| 4 | From the outset , as in 1854 , it may well have been that Napoleon hoped to coerce Austria into negotiating a settlement by underlining her isolation in Europe , and thus avoiding an armed conflict . |
| 5 | If all members of the human race had arrived roughly at the same time at the point when the need for a ‘ god ’ had started to influence human behaviour , it may well have been that the existence of a disastrous diversity of ‘ gods ’ , all of whom according to their worshippers conferred privileges , would never have become established . |
| 6 | The reason could very well have been that he simply desired to do it . |
| 7 | For example , it could well have been that families of cave dwellers came to realise that it was possible that they could agree to respect the privacy and boundaries of their respective homes , and by so doing relieve themselves of the eternal vigilance likely to be necessary in the absence of such agreement . |
| 8 | One of the reasons why Constanze did not really come into her own until after Mozart 's death may well have been that she spent much of her married life in various debilitating stages of pregnancy , bearing six children ( of whom only two survived ) . |
| 9 | So that the split may well have been that er he was gon na to do a lot more work than perhaps the er civil engineering design group . |
| 10 | If your wife is unhappy , now it may well have been that a better policy could have been put on the vehicle . |
| 11 | Or it may simply have been that he was hiding : that his confused sexuality could at any time have brought him down . |
| 12 | It may even have been that John , anticipating his imminent doom , ratified some such arrangement , perhaps in the ceremony at the Jordan . |
| 13 | If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago . |