Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [noun] or [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These may have been farmsteads or hamlets , but they were certainly not large or extensive enough to be villages , whatever their status or internal arrangements . |
| 2 | It could have been hours or minutes later that Isabel found herself staring into a dark pit . |
| 3 | Such travellers may have been missionaries or emissaries , but the term presumably also encompasses those involved in commerce irrespective of whether they originated from across the English Channel . |
| 4 | Thus in our ‘ suicide ’ drama the adolescents , instead of being in role as members of the family concerned , could have been neighbours or reporters getting a good story . |
| 5 | Also ‘ bound with golden links ’ which might have been jewellery or chains . |
| 6 | Several members of his family had been artists or lovers of art , and Gow himself became no mean collector and connoisseur . |
| 7 | They were twisted and butchered and maimed and it was difficult to see if they had been Oaks or Beeches or Elms or what . |
| 8 | Of 1,000 GPs questioned by the Doctor newspaper , three out of four said the culprits had been patients or members of their families . |