Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The men might have been centre stage on day one of Wimbledon , but thanks to Atalanta , the women will soon have their day in more ways than one .
2 Programmed visits , yes , I think they 'll have been debt inspections that have carried out , whereas the higher figures above them are audit , and these are the ones that take more time , and are programmed to deal with everything , you know .
3 ‘ It could have been Jane Pargeter , who was about to lose her job . ’
4 They thought she may have been sleep walking .
5 It might have been mince meat just ti cooked in tins .
6 Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that .
7 I ca n't for the life of me see how it could have been Sheila Williams he was with …
8 ‘ I thought at first it must have been Ivy Cook , ’ Zen went on .
9 It could have been Dan Dare in the nursing home .
10 There was a transparent sachet of something brown and thick , chocolate paste or miso ; one dried-up anchovy in an open tin , its coat of salt dried to a hard crust ; and a smear of something on a saucer that might once have been pesto sauce .
11 Some of the earliest TV ‘ panellists ’ , who would later have been chat show hosts but were regulars on games like What 's My Line ? in the restricted TV hours of the 1950s , were well known columnists in the popular dailies .
12 Better-heeled artificers must almost certainly have been master craftsmen employing labour themselves .
13 Superficially the safe solution is to assume that nil and £1 assessments indicate journeymen and apprentices , while from about £5 most must have been master craftsmen .
14 He may have been West Midlands Chief Constable when it 's squad was exposed for its creative-writing skills , but he was not to blame .
15 One square 's separation would have been dagger range .
16 No donor 's name is even hinted at but it could easily have been Lance Henly .
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 Further documentary evidence of his life and work is scanty , but because his will is listed with those in the parish of St Sepulchre , just outside the walls of the City , it has been suggested that his father may have been William Larkin , the host of the Rose inn in that parish .
19 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 .
20 On his left — but for the bungaloid eruption — ; there would have been sand dunes going down to the deep blue sea of the Channel ; the stretch of golden sand — had it not been for the litter — making a gentle curve for five miles .
21 The place gave Johnson another whiff of anthropology : here he stood as if in Africa or Arabia , greeting wild natives in their habitat : these Macraes might have been Xhosa tribesmen , or Tuaregs : ‘ The villagers gathered about us in considerable numbers , I believe without any evil intention , but with a very savage wildness of aspect and manner . ’
22 Another catalyst in London 's career may have been Lord Essex , who , with his gardener Moses Cook , laid out a forest garden at Cassiobury in 1677 .
23 I said she could have taken a degree in her spare time in th she 's only she 's not yet forty I said that 's absolute rubbish I said th the world is full of these damn women going around saying , if only I had n't had children I could have been Lord Chief Justice of England , I said , it is n't true !
24 In fact , now that I come to think of it , I have a feeling it may have been Lord Darlington himself who made that particular remark to me that time he called me into his study some two months after that exchange with Miss Kenton outside the billiard room .
25 The ale could have been sea water for all he tasted .
26 Tripp 's starting point may have been road accidents , but his overall grasp of the problem took him into wider fields .
27 ‘ Have you ever thought it might have been Mrs Downes who killed Dr Kemp ?
28 I realized that the cheerfully forceful woman I had seen the day before must have been Mrs Maureen Kenny herself .
29 ‘ Today would have been sheep day in the old days , ’ the driver explained , as he hurried in to take over from his wife at the bar .
30 Injuries rule out scrum-half Douglas ( Newcastle Gosforth ) and Lumsden , who would have been Oxford University 's full-back last December .
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