Example sentences of "[adv] have [been] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To accept that whatever she had done or promised or performed to maintain her position in Market Square then her choice could only have been that or the workhouse . |
| 2 | He might just have been another guitar player who ended up playing back-up for a lot of people , which was what he was doing in America . ’ |
| 3 | There may just have been some hope of effecting change through organization , especially when the numbers of women were still low ( about 300 at the end of the 18805 ) , though the means chosen were not welcomed by the rank and file of the men 's union . |
| 4 | She could hardly have been much of a friend of Liza because , although her daughter had never been forthcoming about her time in the ATS , she had certainly never mentioned an Eleanor Fuller . |
| 5 | It was fairly clear that there was going to be some smuggling as well but , even allowing for the often-repeated story that other ships lay over the horizon and sent boats in to add to the stock on board the single ship , the net profits from the ship could hardly have been much more than twice those of the slave-trading . |
| 6 | There can hardly have been any business sector with so many strong contenders for it as the banking sector . |
| 7 | Thereafter both curves are identical suggesting that the patients who died immediately after surgery might possibly have been those whose life expectancy was less than two years . |
| 8 | There may always have been some in Mercia who did not approve of Offa 's Lichfield policy and the realization that London would be the ideal centre for the southern provinces offered a neat solution to a tangled ecclesiastical and political situation . |
| 9 | There would probably have been some cutting in Act 5 . |
| 10 | His hands were very full with arrangements for his attack on Normandy , and there must also have been many discussions about the terms on which he would be willing to make peace with the papacy . |
| 11 | There must have been some great stars and some ecstatic moments in those cosy halls but there must also have been many second- and third-rate performers , constant recourse to stereotypes , excessive repetition , and buckets of sentimentality . |
| 12 | The unlawfulness was generally to be found in the offence of unlawful assembly , but it might also have been another offence such as nuisance caused by obstruction of the highway . |
| 13 | In the non-chronicle sources there are suggestions of rivalry over Calais , where Hastings had replaced Rivers as lieutenant in 1471 , and there may also have been some friction over the Ferrers inheritance , although this does not seem to have been a major issue . |
| 14 | In the non-chronicle sources there are suggestions of rivalry over Calais , where Hastings had replaced Rivers as lieutenant in 1471 , and there may also have been some friction over the Ferrers inheritance , although this does not seem to have been a major issue . |
| 15 | Can it really have been much more than an up-market doss-house ? |
| 16 | So would she really have been any less affected if it had happened to her now , at the age of twenty-five ? |
| 17 | On the first of these there must inevitably have been some continuation of the raising of teacher-awareness initiated by the involvement of teachers in the library committee and in making submissions to it for inclusion in the proposal . |
| 18 | In fact it might well have been that such developments generally attracted more labour than could be fully employed , which departed once the enterprise was terminated , leaving behind a sleepy farming community not unlike the fifteen undeveloped villages of Babergh hundred ( Table 2.18 ) . |
| 19 | The area of Gallia Ulterior conceded to the Alans may well have been that area which had supported Tibatto , and the grant may well have been a means of punishing the rebels and keeping them under surveillance , as well as being a reward for the followers of Goar . |
| 20 | There may well have been another , more subtle , reason underlying the Church 's position . |
| 21 | It seems that even if you have loved and been loved , there could well have been some loss to bear in the recent past . |
| 22 | There may well have been some particularly sensitive elements in what you have thought about . |
| 23 | The passages from Mank Ali and Ata'i concerning Abdulfettah do suggest , however , that there may well have been some connection between the pairs of concepts and that there is some basis for assuming that the " interior " referred to is the three cities of Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa ( and environs ) and the " exterior " the rest of the empire or at least that part of it in which the learned hierarchy operated . |
| 24 | Whilst I stand to be corrected , it may well have been this greasy property which made the finish dry out with a khaki tone . |
| 25 | His harrying of Essex in 994 could well have been this second occasion , and if so the first may have been the Maldon campaign in 991 . |
| 26 | Without the incidental involvement of an old Breakspearean , it would not even have been that . |
| 27 | There may even have been some dissatisfaction among Penda 's allies with what had been achieved at Iudeu . |
| 28 | It must surely have been that quality , suggestive of significance , which drew so many writers and designers to vernacular styles , in both the later Victorian and the Edwardian periods . |
| 29 | Stiff with pride — which she was now sick and tired of being told was a Leo trait — and buoyed up by the certain knowledge that it would have been morally indefensible for her to desert her father , Laura had taken some weeks to realise that there must surely have been another way for them to solve their problems . |
| 30 | ‘ It was extremely dangerous because there would then have been another , hundred-foot drop off that cliff , ’ said stunt arranger Stuart Fell . |