Example sentences of "have been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that must have been G.P. 's doing . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As it happens , it was Geordie in origin but it might equally well have been Liverpool or Sheffield . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | It need n't have been cricket ; that was almost an aside to my interest in the movements . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But even more pressing was the need to escape from his discomforting gaze that could have been gratitude or suspicion or almost anything . |
| 10 | ‘ Then there would have been bloodshed , for I tell you I could not be in the same house with them and keep my temper . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was easy to imagine that it might have been Camelot , like in the picture story-books I 'd read . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | No one was injured but factory inspectors say there could easily have been casualities . |
| 15 | Anyway , the fact is that if it had n't rained in Japan , if he had n't withdrawn from the race after a few laps and waited until the weather improved , he , not James Hunt , would have been champion . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It may actually have been Gandhi who was responsible for his optimism about this . |
| 18 | ‘ It could have been Jane Pargeter , who was about to lose her job . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They thought she may have been sleep walking . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I might just as well have been Judd . ’ |
| 23 | There must have been nicknames but er ca n't really , do n't really remember . |
| 24 | The Rose of the photograph might have been Rose 's great-grandmother , perhaps . |
| 25 | It would have been Madonna 's choice too by the way . |
| 26 | It could have been Hope 's unknowing repudiation of the popular notion of black people which fired my imagination . |
| 27 | It is sad that Orwell should have been bedridden and dying when he met Waugh , for the first and last time . |
| 28 | It might have been mince meat just ti cooked in tins . |
| 29 | Slowly he removed the hat and slowly he looked down at it , his vision blurred by alcohol , but for all anyone knew it could have been tears . |
| 30 | The rival claimant , an Andreas Ruckers of 1651 , was produced by the piano house of John Broadwood and Sons , who deposed that this instrument had once belonged to Christopher Smith and thus might have been Handel 's . |