Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [noun pl] or [noun] " 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 | There may have been complications or separation at birth and the mother may have never really felt completely bonded to the child . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 . |
| 9 | With effect from the start of an insolvent liquidation of the vendor , unless the court grants leave , the vendor 's company name may not be used by the purchaser if the purchaser or directors of the purchaser have been directors or shadow directors of the vendor during the twelve months preceding the liquidation . |