Example sentences of "have [been] [noun] or [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it happens , it was Geordie in origin but it might equally well have been Liverpool or Sheffield . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | But even more pressing was the need to escape from his discomforting gaze that could have been gratitude or suspicion or almost anything . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It could have been hours or minutes later that Isabel found herself staring into a dark pit . |
| 6 | There may have been complications or separation at birth and the mother may have never really felt completely bonded to the child . |
| 7 | They reckon that Andropulos — if it was Andropulos , it could have been Alexander or Aristotle — made an amateurish blunder . |
| 8 | Originally the nut would have been bone or brass , although JD could n't specify which . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She gave Kate a quick appraising glance and a nod which could have been acknowledgement or approval and said : |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Domesday Survey records a mill at Hucclecote which would have been Pitts or Ptymilne Mill . |
| 15 | Also ‘ bound with golden links ’ which might have been jewellery or chains . |
| 16 | It could have been fear or sympathy or irritation or a combination of all three . |
| 17 | So the next stop could have been Blackpool or Plymouth if we had wished . |
| 18 | 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 . |