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Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Possibly because some of them might 've been councillors and knew the ways that sort of er things went on and how to get things done officially and above board .
2	A sliver of white that must 've been teeth .
3	Er , I think really it must 've been thrift .
4	And I 've , I 've done that and it , there 's not one thing you can point to and say there 's no one in here because it 's several things , altogether , that indicate it , it might have been there 's no car on the drive , there might 've been , there might 've been milk still out .
5	It should 've been Concorde .
6	so it might 've been Rob that went out with her , but I du n no .
7	The tourist might 've been cake .
8	It would 've been cosine .
9	if it 's doing so well , oh and you would n't have been on that long under a Labour Government , of course , it would 've been jobs for the boys , they 'd 've slipped you in I 'm sure .
10	‘ It must 've been Helga .
11	It would n't have mattered who , it could 've been family , friends , neighbourhood , anybody .
12	I think that must have been G.P. 's doing .
13	The men might have been centre stage on day one of Wimbledon , but thanks to Atalanta , the women will soon have their day in more ways than one .
14	Programmed visits , yes , I think they 'll have been debt inspections that have carried out , whereas the higher figures above them are audit , and these are the ones that take more time , and are programmed to deal with everything , you know .
15	As it happens , it was Geordie in origin but it might equally well have been Liverpool or Sheffield .
16	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 ?
17	It need n't have been cricket ; that was almost an aside to my interest in the movements .
18	So I walked beneath the trees and found just under my feet pieces of old concrete and what might once have been bits of wall .
19	Tim Renton , once the Minister for the Arts ( in any other country save Britain his title would have been Minister of Culture ) , thought Hyacinth would have made an admirable Carmen .
20	But even more pressing was the need to escape from his discomforting gaze that could have been gratitude or suspicion or almost anything .
21	‘ Then there would have been bloodshed , for I tell you I could not be in the same house with them and keep my temper .
22	His rounds took him to most parts of the building and Rain was eagerly accepting that it must have been Stan on the second floor making her jumpy when he mentioned that since the murder he did not go into MacQuillan 's room or those next to it because the police were usually there .
23	It was easy to imagine that it might have been Camelot , like in the picture story-books I 'd read .
24	Of course , there may well have been conjecture when so many people invaded Maternity when the infant was delivered , but that was something you permitted . ’
25	No one was injured but factory inspectors say there could easily have been casualities .
26	Anyway , the fact is that if it had n't rained in Japan , if he had n't withdrawn from the race after a few laps and waited until the weather improved , he , not James Hunt , would have been champion .
27	Although just over five feet eight inches tall , and seldom well trained , at his best he was strong , fast , and skilful enough to hold his own with Cribb , reputedly the best of all bare-knuckle boxers , and but for his fondness for high living , might well have been champion .
28	It may actually have been Gandhi who was responsible for his optimism about this .
29	‘ It could have been Jane Pargeter , who was about to lose her job . ’
30	Finally , the ‘ deme judges ’ ( again an originally Pisistratid invention ) dispensed a justice which was uniform for all Attica , but they travelled round the demes on a kind of assize circuit ; they too must have been agents of unification .