Example sentences of "[adv] have been [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There will thus have been £1M worth of relevant income . |
| 5 | No donor 's name is even hinted at but it could easily have been Lance Henly . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Quite apart from the desire for steady and precise steering qualities as offered by the conical camber of the Rogallo sail forms , there always have been kite flyers who were less interested in ‘ Figurekiting ’ and more inclined to the spectacular fast flying trains of smaller kites with linked bridles . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Paine 's successor was originally to have been Mr. W.H. Hardie , who had joined the staff in 1934 . |
| 10 | The only other clues available on this aspect until now have been air bubbles in polar ice caps , but there are doubts about how closely the composition of the bubbles matches that of the atmosphere at the time they were trapped . |
| 11 | An important influence here has been William Burroughs 's The Naked Lunch ( 1959 ) which abandons linear sequence in favour of smaller episodes often beginning with pastiches of other texts ( detective novels of the 1940s , film-scripts , etc. ) which are then broken down . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 15 | The two were just muscle , but the third man could well have been Michael Lee , Katherine Lundy 's notorious henchmen . |
| 16 | There may well have been planning permission for the activities in question in those cases . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Although there would undoubtedly have been job losses after the merger , the proposal can be viewed as a relatively straightforward attempt to restructure and then rationalise an industry with excess capacity , with firms which were insufficiently large to exploit economies of scale and thus unable to make a profit . |
| 19 | The only representative of the species I 'd met till then had been Jean Carmichael , with her hairy legs , head for hard liquor , and golden heart . |
| 20 | The Governor admits there have been teething problems which need sorting out . |
| 21 | Tight forwards have been Jacques Fouroux 's obsession since France were shattered by New Zealand in the 1987 World Cup final . |
| 22 | Without the work they did , I could never have been Prime Minister , others could never have been cabinet ministers , nor would we have as many women members of parliament as we have today . |
| 23 | Better-heeled artificers must almost certainly have been master craftsmen employing labour themselves . |
| 24 | ‘ Obviously not , but I am not and never have been Mrs Smith , and there is nothing to prove differently . ’ |