Example sentences of "have been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I mapped out our plans — the Palladium , the TV series — must have been £50,000 of work . |
| 32 | I think we would have been friends . |
| 33 | In a better place and time , we 'd have been friends . |
| 34 | Paige felt sorry for her ; they could so easily have been friends , but for Lori 's jealousy . |
| 35 | Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that . |
| 36 | It may not have been love at first sight — winged ears and gangly legs have limited appeal — but their relationship was meant to be |
| 37 | She dreamt that she was searching for something glorious : it could have been money , it could have been love , she did not know . |
| 38 | Could that have been love , real love ? she asked herself now , as she had many times before . |
| 39 | It must have been Nona . ’ |
| 40 | The first four should perhaps have been Giants , although the number of good female reads is a bit too heavy in April . |
| 41 | I ca n't for the life of me see how it could have been Sheila Williams he was with … |
| 42 | It was a cold fossil ; the people in it could have been strangers . |
| 43 | But as far as the Prince 's speech was concerned the couple might as well have been strangers . |
| 44 | She stopped at the graveyard to visit the dead ; but as , even alive , they would all have been strangers to her she felt intrusive . |
| 45 | Instead we might have been strangers . |
| 46 | ‘ I thought at first it must have been Ivy Cook , ’ Zen went on . |
| 47 | However , one has not the slightest doubt that the moving spirits behind the coaches ' gathering will have been England 's Geoff Cooke and Australia 's Bob Dwyer . |
| 48 | It is hard for us to understand how these same principles could have been part of the radical political programme of writers as diverse as Cobbett and Gramsci . ’ |
| 49 | And still without needing to turn my head , but looking straight to the front , and walking at the same even pace along the path , I was conscious of a man perched motionless on the top bar of the gate , one leg over , so still that he might have been part of the gate itself . |
| 50 | Two trained and experienced businessmen in one landscaping company is unusual , and Peter suspects it might have been part of the reason for success . |
| 51 | ‘ It might have been part of the equipment those scientists dropped into the sea when they were here , ’ he suggested . |
| 52 | Only tame , domesticated animals could possibly have been part of the goods and chattels of that early band of pioneers , striking out for a new island home . |
| 53 | As Hannah moves fluently along her journey into the past , what emerges most strongly to the listener is a sense of privilege — that here is a survivor of a lost way of life which was so innocent and simple , so materially deprived , yet spiritually rich , that it might have been part of another civilization altogether , surviving from an earlier century , perhaps . |
| 54 | If she could have been part of a warm , loving family , it was what she would have liked most of all . |
| 55 | Note that although the actions of the mother , father and child might well have been part of one connected incident , the cuts to the first shot of the older child and to the shot of the father getting to his feet open up the possibility that the actions could in fact have been parts of separate but similar incidents which took place over a very much longer span of time ; the shot of the father could well have been contrived specially , with the help of a little direction from the cameraman in between shots . |
| 56 | This claim has never been proved and it may have been part of the Securitate 's scare tactics . |
| 57 | The life review can provide a means of re-establishing and confirming individual involvement with current reality , and linking their past work and efforts with the social change that has occurred , for in a variety of subtle ways they will have been part of the changes and developments that they are witnessing . |
| 58 | As we did so he explained he had taken the day off , instead of next Sunday , which would have been part of his free week-end . |
| 59 | Evans suggested that if the complete picture showed an attack on a city the houses depicted may have been part of an outer defence wall in which no ground-floor doors or windows would have been possible . |
| 60 | Excavations carried out recently on behalf of the Cheltenham Museum have revealed structures from the first to the fourth centuries , an irregular street pattern and a ditch with fourth-century coins in the lower filling which may have been part of a defence system . |