Example sentences of "[adv] have been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most famous perhaps has been Nijinsky . |
| 2 | On the subject of batsmen and short-pitched bowling ; none apparently has been game enough to demand a fuller length , especially as this involves addressing such request to the likes of Denzil , Balfour or Elconn . |
| 3 | This forms the real test of the success of the project : up to that point all has been analysis , estimate and hope . |
| 4 | This forms the real test of the success of the project : up to that point all has been analysis , estimate and hope . |
| 5 | Cubby has been associated with the Dundee Club for over 30 years , and for the past 15 years or so has been football representative on the Regional Committee of the Sports Association/Staff Club . |
| 6 | The first four should perhaps have been Giants , although the number of good female reads is a bit too heavy in April . |
| 7 | Natch if the operation had gotten the go-code , that List would only have been part of it . |
| 8 | Michele 's silvery-green eyes seemed to look straight into her brain , and for what seemed minutes , but could only have been split-seconds , Luce stood paralysed , before shaking her head . |
| 9 | Fifteen minutes later , a woman , who could only have been Sara , found the door unbarred . |
| 10 | Perhaps of more significance was their estimate of the cost of the rise in unemployment from 1979 to 1985 : they estimated that if the figure had remained at the 1979 level , the cost to the Exchequer in 1984–85 would only have been £7.5 bn . |
| 11 | He ca n't only have been Donald the Great Doctor . |
| 12 | It was thanks to them that he learned that the hunt was on for a leak on the Washington embassy wartime staff which could only have been Maclean . |
| 13 | So when the third Whitley appeared overhead ( incidentally , Murphy said that could only have been Mahaddie ) Donnet recalled thinking that was no gentleman , and that was no Englishman . |
| 14 | ( Ironically , there can only have been months between the publication of Hutchinson 's boastful book and calling in the liquidators ) . |
| 15 | They can only have been insignia marking the lady 's status as a royal consort . |
| 16 | erm potentially , in a rich soil , in a wide range of erm crops , of course , coffee , cotton , tea , especially have been export earners in the past , but also they produce sugar and erm basic foodstuffs . |
| 17 | It is a ‘ portrait ’ group , though the lost heads will not have been likenesses : a family ( or , if all are women , a group of temple-servants ) . |
| 18 | The press had been given nothing but ‘ blurry , distorted photographs culled from television shots of occasions in the past at which North happened to be present ’ ; at best , ABC News had shown ‘ pictures of the back of a man 's head that may or may not have been North 's as the man got into an Embassy car in Cyprus on the occasion of the homeward flight of one of the hostages ’ . |
| 19 | As he put it to one of his regional officials : " If Joan of Arc had married and had children , she would not have been Joan of Arc any more . " |
| 20 | if it existed , would also have been a causal circumstance for c , and , we might add , would not have been part of a causal sequence including cc . |
| 21 | In the morning she wondered if her inspection of the villa 's water-works might not have been part of a dream and looked carefully to confirm that the letter to Signora Kettering was still in her handbag . |
| 22 | This would not have been part of the usual flight to Los Angeles . |
| 23 | ‘ I had too much respect for Yule Craig and would not have been part of anything that let him down . |
| 24 | ‘ You 'll do for me , I 've always voted Labour , ’ said the fan , who may or may not have been colour blind . |
| 25 | Accordingly it would catch persons who may not have been customers of the plaintiff at the time when the defendant left his employment but who had become customers subsequently . |
| 26 | The terms would not have been Vincent 's , but the note of absolute certainty could be his . |
| 27 | Neither do I think it altogether heretical to wonder whether some diseases attributed to evil spirits may not have been forms of mental illness . |
| 28 | When we arrive there 's a three inch pile of mail on the floor , the day 's diary overruns one of the computer screens and the breakfast table is set with grapefruit , muesli , cereals , Frank Cooper 's marmalade and a vase of flowers that may or may not have been pinks . |
| 29 | It may not have been love at first sight — winged ears and gangly legs have limited appeal — but their relationship was meant to be |
| 30 | We remember the great names like Lyell or Darwin , and forget the supporting cast without which they could not have been stars : those in museums classifying their findings . |