Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ The man who brought you in to the Squad must have been Alan Jones . |
| 32 | By elimination , Donna 's mother must be Jean , and the programme seen by Ann and Julie must have been Peter Pan and Popeye . |
| 33 | There must have been text books around at one time but I can not even identify any titles let alone suppliers . |
| 34 | ‘ You 'll do for me , I 've always voted Labour , ’ said the fan , who may or may not have been colour blind . |
| 35 | The sixty-seven ruins on the Plain of Barsoom commonly called ‘ temples ’ may have been just that ; or equally well may have been army barracks , isolated quarters for the mentally disturbed or victims of plague , or holiday camps for Martian urbanites . |
| 36 | The skeletons found on this site were buried in unorthodox manner and might have been plague victims . |
| 37 | Is it that would n't have been North Ronaldsay . |
| 38 | ‘ The person in New York you sent a letter to on Beatrix 's behalf-could her name have been van Ryneveld rather than van Ryan ? ’ |
| 39 | His father , also Norman , who died a year earlier , in 1772 , is portrayed in Allan Ramsay 's portrait as if he might have been Bonnie Prince Charlie — in wrap-around plaid , curly white wig , a gold-hilted claymore at his left hip , right hand outflung , and he stands in a landscape of rock , sky and water . |
| 40 | Iehmarc may have been Echmarcach Ragnallson , later king of Dublin ( see below ) , but who possibly in 1031 controlled part of Galloway and maybe the Isle of Man . |
| 41 | The second person into the flat and immediately very , very close behind to P C was myself and the third person into the flat would have been P C . |
| 42 | The fourth person would have been P C The fifth person P C and the last person forming part of the firearms team er would have been P C . |
| 43 | The fourth person would have been P C The fifth person P C and the last person forming part of the firearms team er would have been P C . |
| 44 | Fitzgerald was fascinated by the director type and in his story ‘ Mightier than the sword ’ he offered a portrait of a man who could well have been King Vidor : |
| 45 | ‘ Or it could have been Maggie Parkin — ’ |
| 46 | The next station should have been Mornington Crescent but it was not . |
| 47 | Fidel Castro is no far-distant Arab , but rules an island only 90 miles from Key West , on what might have been home ground had politics gone slightly differently less than a century ago . |
| 48 | It would have been storybook stuff had he returned to win the British Seniors ' Open at Lytham or defend his Forte PGA Seniors ' Open title at Royal Dublin for the third successive year . |
| 49 | Could it have been Karl Gesner ? |
| 50 | In normal circumstances 1939 might have been election year . |
| 51 | Although unfortunately details of the projects are tantalizingly hard to ascertain , at least two attempts were made after 1888 by the Edinburgh Typographical Society to set up a women 's union , The first , in the late 1880s , is referred to only in the retrospective " statement on the Female Question " , published in 1904 ; Miss Black of London [ who must have been Clementina Black ] a lady who was well-known for her efforts to improve the social condition of her sex , offered to make an endeavour to organise the female compositors in Edinburgh , with a view to remedying the evils complained of by the journeymen . |
| 52 | Bay did thrash Connah 's Quay 7-0 in last season 's Welsh Cup , and also hammered Briton Ferry , and Bryn Jones agrees his side would have been title contenders . |
| 53 | Some of the most distinguished English binders in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were Samuel Mearne ( working c. 1660–83 ) , in whose shop much work was done for Charles II ; several unidentified craftsmen working for the two Queens — Catherine of Braganza and Mary of Modena — ( known as Queens ' Binder A , B , and C ) and William Nott ( who may have been Binder A ) , of whom Pepys wrote in 1669 : |
| 54 | There may have been press briefings by regulatory bodies during and after the Blue Arrow inquiry which he said called into question their impartiality . |
| 55 | His mother may have been Isabella Anderson . |
| 56 | In one hand he held a sack , in the other what might have been metal traps , or not that at all but some kind of implement . |
| 57 | Apart from their costumes and the props that they carried , they might have been factory workers anywhere . |
| 58 | Although there would undoubtedly have been job losses after the merger , the proposal can be viewed as a relatively straightforward attempt to restructure and then rationalise an industry with excess capacity , with firms which were insufficiently large to exploit economies of scale and thus unable to make a profit . |
| 59 | On another low table by the wall there was an inexpensive stereo unit and some uneven stacks of records ; he could n't make out the details on the posters on the wall above the unit , but they might have been Escher prints . |
| 60 | Someone from the Banco D'Oro was supposed to be meeting her , and this remote blond god certainly did n't look like a bank official — though he might have been Signor Corosini . |