Example sentences of "[adv] have be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there may only have been one clock in the town where they worked and that would have been on the town hall or the church . |
| 2 | Sometimes the ultimate question is only in theory left to the public authority ; for example , in some cases of review for jurisdictional errors of law or fact in which it is clear that if the authority had got the law or the facts right , its decision would have been different and could only have been one way . |
| 3 | It can only have been back projection , travelling matte or some combination of the two . ) |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | It could just have been bad luck . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was exciting end-to-end entertainment and it could easily have been two goals each after the opening quarter . |
| 8 | Not only was it the first death , but it could easily have been little Enoch , or Jane . |
| 9 | In the event it was Alaska which became the 49th State of the Union ( in 1959 ) but it could easily have been Coca-Colonial Britain . |
| 10 | There could scarcely have been two people more different from each other in character : the one motivated by a keen sense of order , rationality , and discipline ; the other driven by his emotions and whimsical fancy . |
| 11 | The nature of black holes makes them difficult to detect ; all we may ever have is indirect evidence for their existence . |
| 12 | By that time , of course , he would already have effected a great many ministerial and policy changes , but there would still have been sufficient sense of novelty about everything he touched to have ensured his eventual victory at the polls . |
| 13 | There can hardly have been any business sector with so many strong contenders for it as the banking sector . |
| 14 | Nuadu glanced at this and saw that there might once have been verdant greenery , perhaps even a small forest . |
| 15 | Charlie stared out at the open fields that must once have been productive farmland . |
| 16 | Some gorges may once have been underground caverns , the roofs of which have collapsed . |
| 17 | By 1988 the figure would probably have been nearer $55 million . |
| 18 | There would probably have been some cutting in Act 5 . |
| 19 | The sample was made up of people whom they judged would probably have been long-stay residents of Powick if that option had continued to be available . |
| 20 | There may also have been certain conditions of the advance ( eg that a woodworm infestation shall be treated before completion , that certain repairs shall have been carried out or a deduction made from the mortgage loan until they have been ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | There may also have been other reasons why he decided to move . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | However , there may also have been English precedent and inspiration for the adoption of a second crown — notably in Edgar 's second , " imperial " , coronation at Bath in 973 . |
| 25 | There may also have been earlier differences in the decision whether to take ‘ no further action ’ after arrest , or indeed in the decision by the police to arrest . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Dr Robert Eisenman , whom we cited earlier , believes there may well have been close links between Simeon 's family and the descendants of Jesus 's — if , indeed , they were not one and the same . |
| 30 | However , there may well have been other pressures on working class men as individuals , causing them to oppose the work of their wives . |