Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [noun] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Programmed visits , yes , I think they 'll have been debt inspections that have carried out , whereas the higher figures above them are audit , and these are the ones that take more time , and are programmed to deal with everything , you know . |
| 2 | I remember thinking at the time that the two men were father-figures in more than one sense , and that it might as well have been Father Eliot as Father D'Arcy . |
| 3 | By elimination , Donna 's mother must be Jean , and the programme seen by Ann and Julie must have been Peter Pan and Popeye . |
| 4 | The next station should have been Mornington Crescent but it was not . |
| 5 | The result would have been world wars and migrations and eventually a weakening of life-instincts in favour of a self-destructive ethic of murder and suicide like that of the Fijians . |
| 6 | It may have been jet lag or it may have been the excitement . |
| 7 | ‘ The brother 's name may have been John Griffiths but I have no real confirmation of this . |
| 8 | A more accurate term would have been desktop layout or desktop typesetting and page makeup but we 've been stuck with the words he used . |