Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [vb infin] been [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides Irish Mail and her stable mate Montalban we were delighted to welcome back a regular visitor in Peter Pan , the immaculate Wren Class Kerr Stuart of Graham Morris , while the show stopper must surely have been Chaloner , the vertical-boilered locomotive by De Winton from Leighton Buzzard Railway . |
| 2 | The press had been given nothing but ‘ blurry , distorted photographs culled from television shots of occasions in the past at which North happened to be present ’ ; at best , ABC News had shown ‘ pictures of the back of a man 's head that may or may not have been North 's as the man got into an Embassy car in Cyprus on the occasion of the homeward flight of one of the hostages ’ . |
| 3 | On the other hand , " the author of Macbeth " is a non-rigid designator , because the author of Macbeth might not have been Shakespeare . |
| 4 | She even wondered if it might not have been Mandy 's laughter-filled anecdotes about summers at the lodge that had coaxed this deep ache of loss within her to the surface of her consciousness . |
| 5 | Except for whatever part of her that might once have been Jenny . |
| 6 | He deduced that the name might formerly have been Craingeau , Graingeau or Gringaud , any one of which would be pronounced sufficiently like Cranko to become transformed . |
| 7 | ‘ It might even have been Margaret 's fruit cake , for all I know . |
| 8 | It might n't have been Derwent . |
| 9 | It might well have been Piladu 's son . |
| 10 | And among that crowd , while she waited , might well have been Chrissie . |
| 11 | So when the third Whitley appeared overhead ( incidentally , Murphy said that could only have been Mahaddie ) Donnet recalled thinking that was no gentleman , and that was no Englishman . |
| 12 | Fifteen minutes later , a woman , who could only have been Sara , found the door unbarred . |
| 13 | It was thanks to them that he learned that the hunt was on for a leak on the Washington embassy wartime staff which could only have been Maclean . |
| 14 | ‘ It could still have been Brampton ! ’ |
| 15 | Yes , it could still have been Tutilo who finished what Jerome had begun . ’ |
| 16 | It could n't have been David because David knew she would be out at work , and knew that Ralph was staying with her . |
| 17 | Nenna knew that , but she was sure it could n't have been Edward 's fault , and at the moment she could n't be bothered with it . |
| 18 | It could n't have been Gloria , for Gloria knew that Dot always slept in her vest and knickers . |
| 19 | Fitzgerald was fascinated by the director type and in his story ‘ Mightier than the sword ’ he offered a portrait of a man who could well have been King Vidor : |
| 20 | The two were just muscle , but the third man could well have been Michael Lee , Katherine Lundy 's notorious henchmen . |
| 21 | Had Norwich not defeated Notts County in the fifth round that afternoon , it could well have been Mr Stringer 's first and last address to the nation 's footballing public . |
| 22 | ‘ That could never have been John . |
| 23 | And whilst it was never , it could never have been God 's will for Naomi to backslide with Elimelech her husband , and to go into Moab out of the mess that they make of their life , out of the mistakes that they , they perpetrate again and again , God somehow in his graciousness , in his mercy brings goodness from it ! |
| 24 | Speaking to people nicely may well have been William Charles 's greatest worldly asset , one which would enable him to make a living in the great metropolis , for all his lack of more specific skills . |
| 25 | I heard my name being called , it may well have been Louis erm come forward and I heard it , I understood it to be P C voice . |
| 26 | The terms would not have been Vincent 's , but the note of absolute certainty could be his . |
| 27 | As he put it to one of his regional officials : " If Joan of Arc had married and had children , she would not have been Joan of Arc any more . " |
| 28 | Is it that would n't have been North Ronaldsay . |
| 29 | It may actually have been Gandhi who was responsible for his optimism about this . |