Example sentences of "have be [noun pl] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or they may have been hunters after larger prey , in which case when appendages are eventually discovered they may prove to have adaptations for grasping and manipulating larger food . |
| 2 | The high interest rates might well have depressed investment if other things had remained equal , but there may have been changes in other factors that helped to maintain investment : in other words , the I curve shifted to the right . |
| 3 | There may have been reasons for this lack of positive discrimination towards the older conurbations . |
| 4 | ‘ The MO 's they used may have been copies of earlier killings , even this latest one . |
| 5 | Neither do I think it altogether heretical to wonder whether some diseases attributed to evil spirits may not have been forms of mental illness . |
| 6 | There may well have been others on other parts of the island , but unfortunately the heavy curtain of dust and fumes being carried by the wind prevented him getting right round . |
| 7 | Their lights picked out the graffiti of long-dead people — prayers , curses , obscenities , threats — and what might have been messages in alien script or in the calligraphy of madness . |
| 8 | Beguiled by state-of-the-art techniques ( of the kind deployed for ‘ Cités-Cinés ’ , which captured the public imagination five years ago ) , architects and stage designers , experts from the worlds of cinema and advertising , as well as art historians , will create a series of typical settings , which were or could have been subjects for Impressionist paintings . |
| 9 | Instead , there must have been departures from uniform density . |
| 10 | ‘ There could have been survivors aboard that plane . |
| 11 | There may also have been opportunities for paid work experience . |
| 12 | I 'm sure none of us noticed what must have been expressions of pure panic on the faces of our two teachers and the several parents who had volunteered to keep their own children and their classmates from certain death by drowning in the pool . |
| 13 | The shoes , handmade to last a life-time , should have been symbols of polite security , but there was no security . |