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 There will thus have been £1M worth of relevant income .
18 It may just have been coincidence , but since the A1GSM went in , I have had no trouble at all with fish ailments .
19 The colourless liquid in the glass she carried might just have been water , perhaps ; but whatever it was she seemed unwontedly sober .
20 But it might just have been anxiety .
21 Then he had realised that the originator of the plot could just as easily have been Burun — intending all the time that it should fail — achieving at a stroke the removal of effective opposition , placing Artai in debt to the Merkuts for the security of his throne .
22 No donor 's name is even hinted at but it could easily have been Lance Henly .
23 Polston 's goal grabbed the headlines but it could so easily have been Villa 's Garry Parker who was the hero of the night .
24 There was the dark-eyed , slant-featured look of the ancient lost Royal Houses of Ireland in several of them , the glossy hair that might easily have been fur in others .
25 Rosa often went to the washplace with Sabina to help her and she was glad that she could pull her blue cotton dress out of the basket and slosh it into the water before anyone else could examine it for stains ; not that the stain spoke openly of its origins ; it could easily have been milk , thought Rosa .
26 No one was injured but factory inspectors say there could easily have been casualities .
27 Paige felt sorry for her ; they could so easily have been friends , but for Lori 's jealousy .
28 It surprised me but it could easily have been tiredness from being out so long .
29 Nick Simmons , manager of the AA Roadwatch nerve centre at Stanmore , Middlesex , hastily pointed out yesterday that those who drew the short straw for Christmas duty could just as easily have been men .
30 This Mr Deputy Speaker , could easily have been accommodation had the bill been brought to the house just seven weeks earlier than it actually was brought to the house , seven weeks were n't the problem .
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