Example sentences of "[adv] have be [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifteen minutes later , a woman , who could only have been Sara , found the door unbarred . |
| 2 | He ca n't only have been Donald the Great Doctor . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Yes , it could still have been Tutilo who finished what Jerome had begun . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It could still have been Brampton ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It could n't possibly have been Eddie who impersonated Delia and anyway there 'd have been no point when she lives in the same house as Angy . ’ |
| 8 | Could it possibly have been Matthew ? |
| 9 | Could this really once have been Palestine ? |
| 10 | Except for whatever part of her that might once have been Jenny . |
| 11 | He deduced that the name might formerly have been Craingeau , Graingeau or Gringaud , any one of which would be pronounced sufficiently like Cranko to become transformed . |
| 12 | I remember thinking at the time that the two men were father-figures in more than one sense , and that it might as well have been Father Eliot as Father D'Arcy . |
| 13 | Fitzgerald was fascinated by the director type and in his story ‘ Mightier than the sword ’ he offered a portrait of a man who could well have been King Vidor : |
| 14 | As it happens , it was Geordie in origin but it might equally well have been Liverpool or Sheffield . |
| 15 | She suggests that the offending Geordie dialect ‘ might equally well have been Liverpool or Sheffield ’ - could it not also have been from Norfolk , Suffolk or Dorset ? |
| 16 | I might just as well have been Judd . ’ |
| 17 | Speaking to people nicely may well have been William Charles 's greatest worldly asset , one which would enable him to make a living in the great metropolis , for all his lack of more specific skills . |
| 18 | It might well have been Piladu 's son . |
| 19 | They happened to end up in Cork but it might just as well have been Hamburg or Paris or London , or America , as so many other Jews did . |
| 20 | The two were just muscle , but the third man could well have been Michael Lee , Katherine Lundy 's notorious henchmen . |
| 21 | The champions might equally well have been Epicurus and Lucretius ranged against St Paul . |
| 22 | I heard my name being called , it may well have been Louis erm come forward and I heard it , I understood it to be P C voice . |
| 23 | Had Norwich not defeated Notts County in the fifth round that afternoon , it could well have been Mr Stringer 's first and last address to the nation 's footballing public . |
| 24 | Indeed the subject matter of many of Mercer 's plays — which was often Mercer — could just as well have been Goodwin . |
| 25 | And among that crowd , while she waited , might well have been Chrissie . |
| 26 | No French nation was waiting in 1500 to emerge in the concept of France ; and it could just as well have been Burgundy which assumed that role . |
| 27 | ‘ It might even have been Margaret 's fruit cake , for all I know . |
| 28 | Besides Irish Mail and her stable mate Montalban we were delighted to welcome back a regular visitor in Peter Pan , the immaculate Wren Class Kerr Stuart of Graham Morris , while the show stopper must surely have been Chaloner , the vertical-boilered locomotive by De Winton from Leighton Buzzard Railway . |
| 29 | ‘ That could never have been John . |
| 30 | And whilst it was never , it could never have been God 's will for Naomi to backslide with Elimelech her husband , and to go into Moab out of the mess that they make of their life , out of the mistakes that they , they perpetrate again and again , God somehow in his graciousness , in his mercy brings goodness from it ! |