Example sentences of "have [been] [noun] or [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes it has been persecution or suppression . |
| 2 | As it happens , it was Geordie in origin but it might equally well have been Liverpool or Sheffield . |
| 3 | She suggests that the offending Geordie dialect ‘ might equally well have been Liverpool or Sheffield ’ - could it not also have been from Norfolk , Suffolk or Dorset ? |
| 4 | But even more pressing was the need to escape from his discomforting gaze that could have been gratitude or suspicion or almost anything . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It could have been hours or minutes later that Isabel found herself staring into a dark pit . |
| 7 | There may have been complications or separation at birth and the mother may have never really felt completely bonded to the child . |
| 8 | They reckon that Andropulos — if it was Andropulos , it could have been Alexander or Aristotle — made an amateurish blunder . |
| 9 | Originally the nut would have been bone or brass , although JD could n't specify which . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In two strides the Trunchbull was beside him , and by some amazing gymnastic trick , it may have been judo or karate , she flipped the back of Wilfred 's legs with one of her feet so that the boy shot up off the ground and turned a somersault in the air . |
| 12 | She gave Kate a quick appraising glance and a nod which could have been acknowledgement or approval and said : |
| 13 | What he actually did was right or wrong according to the criteria we have discussed , while his intention was right or wrong , on Bentham 's view , according as to whether his action would have been right or wrong if things had turned out as he expected . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Domesday Survey records a mill at Hucclecote which would have been Pitts or Ptymilne Mill . |
| 16 | Also ‘ bound with golden links ’ which might have been jewellery or chains . |
| 17 | It could have been fear or sympathy or irritation or a combination of all three . |
| 18 | So the next stop could have been Blackpool or Plymouth if we had wished . |
| 19 | They happened to end up in Cork but it might just as well have been Hamburg or Paris or London , or America , as so many other Jews did . |
| 20 | Taskopruzade quotes from his father these words of Hocazade 's : " At the time when I was at the Sultan medrese in Bursa I was thirty-three years old and loved nothing save Taskopruzade goes on to say that Hocazade used to take more pride in having taught at the Sultan medrese than in having been kazasker or Mehmed II's Hoca . |
| 21 | It will take several more years before most of these guesses will be proved to have been right or wrong . |
| 22 | Several members of his family had been artists or lovers of art , and Gow himself became no mean collector and connoisseur . |
| 23 | They were twisted and butchered and maimed and it was difficult to see if they had been Oaks or Beeches or Elms or what . |
| 24 | But whether she had been right or wrong , Hugo had been allowed off the hook . |
| 25 | The prosecution say the robber was disguised by a crash helmet , it had been Bryant or Cunnliffe and the other had driven the getaway car . |
| 26 | Of 1,000 GPs questioned by the Doctor newspaper , three out of four said the culprits had been patients or members of their families . |
| 27 | Of these 57 authorities , 32 had been Partnership or Programme councils , and the remainder had a lower status either as Other Designated Districts or benefited from the traditional Urban Programme from which very many councils had gained some , often limited resources . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | There have been June or July records annually since 1960 , except in 1971 , 1972 and 1975 , and up to 27 birds have been seen together , although smaller numbers are much more usual . |