Example sentences of "have been [noun sg] " 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 | It need n't have been cricket ; that was almost an aside to my interest in the movements . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But even more pressing was the need to escape from his discomforting gaze that could have been gratitude or suspicion or almost anything . |
| 7 | ‘ Then there would have been bloodshed , for I tell you I could not be in the same house with them and keep my temper . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Anyway , the fact is that if it had n't rained in Japan , if he had n't withdrawn from the race after a few laps and waited until the weather improved , he , not James Hunt , would have been champion . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They thought she may have been sleep walking . |
| 12 | It is sad that Orwell should have been bedridden and dying when he met Waugh , for the first and last time . |
| 13 | It might have been mince meat just ti cooked in tins . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It may not have been love at first sight — winged ears and gangly legs have limited appeal — but their relationship was meant to be |
| 16 | She dreamt that she was searching for something glorious : it could have been money , it could have been love , she did not know . |
| 17 | Could that have been love , real love ? she asked herself now , as she had many times before . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Two trained and experienced businessmen in one landscaping company is unusual , and Peter suspects it might have been part of the reason for success . |
| 21 | ‘ It might have been part of the equipment those scientists dropped into the sea when they were here , ’ he suggested . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | If she could have been part of a warm , loving family , it was what she would have liked most of all . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This claim has never been proved and it may have been part of the Securitate 's scare tactics . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |