Example sentences of "have be [num] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Burke , who would have been 100 in three weeks , was found unconscious and bleeding heavily . |
| 2 | During the following months the School managed to carry on , but the atmosphere must have been one of great despondency . |
| 3 | For Gordon might well have been one of this newspaper 's very first journalists . |
| 4 | The overall effect of , for example , a group of elaborately dressed and bejewelled priestesses conducting a rite with carved and gilded cult objects against a background of inlaid furniture , brightly painted pillars and multi-coloured frescoes must have been one of dazzling opulence . |
| 5 | Could it have been one of these specimens that succumbed to the examining blade of the paleopathologist 's knife ? |
| 6 | If it does not , the human race will have been one of natural selection 's dead ends . |
| 7 | I could have been one of those prophets who foretold him . |
| 8 | ‘ Would James have been one of those people , by any chance ? ’ |
| 9 | It must have been one of those men Angy sketched … the one she was talking about packing up . |
| 10 | Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French . |
| 11 | If one allows for a surrounding portico , 10 ft wide , the overall dimensions would have been 71 by 69½ ft , giving an area of 4934.5 sq.ft , making it the second largest temple in Britain . |
| 12 | Under the old rules England 's revised objective would have been 194 off 41 overs ( 41 × 4.72 ) , requiring a further 132 from 29 overs at 4.55 — not only less than 4.61 but having to be maintained for fewer overs . |
| 13 | There must have been dozens of dead animals lying around , most of them killed by shrapnel or having wandered into a minefield . |