Example sentences of "[ex0] [vb mod] have be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may have been other churches of lower status on such estates as well . |
| 2 | This body of evidence is not strong , for Adam was capable of error and there may have been other reasons why the Maldon army had a Northumbrian hostage ( even assuming that the poem is reliable ) and Æthelred a Northumbrian wife , quite unconnected with the absence of Second Hand dies from northern mints . |
| 3 | There may have been other prisoners . |
| 4 | For example , there may have been little point in devising an ‘ inner area ’ and allocating resources to it . |
| 5 | There may have been little or no discussion of these issues , even among the higher clerics and ecclesiastical advisers , but Innocent was too polished a performer not to realize the public relations advantages of pronouncement in a general council . |
| 6 | There may have been personal antipathy involved , although Mancini 's account reads rather like an attempt to rationalize a hostility which he could not explain — as does More 's bland assertion that women commonly hate their husband 's best friends . |
| 7 | There may have been personal antipathy involved , although Mancini 's account reads rather like an attempt to rationalize a hostility which he could not explain — as does More 's bland assertion that women commonly hate their husband 's best friends . |
| 8 | In a variation on this feat , the bull-leaper performed the ‘ Diving Leap ’ from a vantage point ; the large , stepped stone block in the north-west corner of the Bull Court at Phaistos was probably used for this purpose , and there may have been similar free-standing vaulting blocks at Knossos and Mallia . |
| 9 | As we have seen , there may have been extensive and managed clearances of grassland and scrub within the woods . |
| 10 | The vaults were then changed at night or when the bus had finished service and then were counted by a different means , they were counted by machine coin counters and er so , instead of say erm what , sixty or seventy conductors paying in their money , this was all erm on the bus , so there may have been five or six drivers had worked that bus that day and all the takings he 'd taken during the time was all in this night safe in this vault . |
| 11 | Both the Marxist and the Eliasian approaches , on the other hand , although implying that there may have been great changes in sexual behaviour , fall short of actually saying so . |
| 12 | In his zeal to demonstrate that the Conservatives were committed individualists Fforde refuses to accept that there may have been real disagreements within the party . |
| 13 | The northern reinforcements were thus not strictly a private army , but were summoned to aid the protector against insurrection , although there may have been contemporary doubts about the validity of the distinction . |
| 14 | The northern reinforcements were thus not strictly a private army , but were summoned to aid the protector against insurrection , although there may have been contemporary doubts about the validity of the distinction . |
| 15 | During Teotihuaca/n times in the Veracruz wetlands there may have been occasional impounding of swamp water late in the dry season but perhaps not the sustained maintenance of water levels as happened in the chinampas . |
| 16 | There may have been good reasons of prudence in all this . |
| 17 | There may have been one or two injured |
| 18 | There may have been one or two planning applications which have been a little bit difficult to deal with but that 's life surely . |
| 19 | The Medjay captain had no doubt been forced into the minor act of betrayal which consisted in breaking Huy 's confidence to Kenamun , and there may have been political or strategic reasons for it ; but the act had raised a wall between them . |
| 20 | Indeed , sometimes it is not very useful , as there may have been long periods without any clear artistic developments , such as the Roman empire of the fourth and fifth centuries or the early medieval period . |
| 21 | The patient with chronic pain is often mentally depressed and there may have been adverse experiences such as sexual abuse or threatening life events . |
| 22 | There may have been intermittent recoveries , but the bulk of the evidence ( often intractable and indirect ) suggests that until around 1500 they were only temporary . |
| 23 | Other documents imply the existence of lay archives , and this is hardly surprising in a world in which there may have been considerable literacy in Anglo-Saxon . |
| 24 | Elsewhere , there may have been more support . |
| 25 | In recent years there may have been more wealth and consumer goods around but people have seemed cynical , weary , amoral … |
| 26 | There may have been another factor that induced these creatures to leave the ground . |
| 27 | Then , wryly : ‘ There may have been another reason ; even as a young man I was a staid sort of chap and they were a bit wild at times . |
| 28 | Second , there may have been severe emotional damage in the past : broken or spoiled relationships with loved ones or with church leaders that have led to unbelief and lack of expectation that God would pour his Spirit into our lives . |
| 29 | Oh no , oh no , oh there were all v very few and far be there may have been local strikes but , such as one day er a grievance been put in and the men struck work just for it . |
| 30 | There may have been few spiritual insights in his system , but in his Principles of philosophy ( 1644 ) he did insist that bodies continue in existence only because God preserves them in being . |