Example sentences of "have been [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that demands were made beyond the capability of a particular individual , or the person concerned may simply have been to some degree in ill health . |
| 2 | The other , John Beaumont , may also have been to some extent Gloucester 's man since he and his putative father Sir Henry Bodrugan went on to become supporters of Richard III in the region . |
| 3 | The other , John Beaumont , may also have been to some extent Gloucester 's man since he and his putative father Sir Henry Bodrugan went on to become supporters of Richard III in the region . |
| 4 | A good response to training was associated with improved squeeze duration in our patients , but increased conidence in mastering anorectal function may also have been of some benefit . |
| 5 | Gould 's arrangements for his own children were meticulously considered , which must have been of some consolation to his wife , who had dutifully resolved to accompany her husband to Australia . |
| 6 | It must have been at some time , because I can speak it now . |
| 7 | This very large accession takes up where the first deposit stopped , and covers the years 1861 to 1920 , in addition to some titles and papers of earlier date which must have been at some time extracted from their proper place . |
| 8 | It must have been with some degree of cautiousness and a heightened sense of responsibility that Gould once more stocked up on shot , caps , and powder on his way back through Launceston for the journey home . |
| 9 | If I could have departed then , never reentered the house , it would have been with some strength of mind . |
| 10 | This being must have been in some way necessary to humanity , it is inconceivable that this is not so , for surely there would have been evidence of at least one enduring civilisation that had neither ‘ god ’ nor temple . |
| 11 | An argument for the co-evolution of dispersers and their trees is that they , in contrast , avoid the seeds , though in the past such seeds may have been in some way indigestible , promoting the relationship of today . |
| 12 | The tightly packed schiltrons might have been in some danger if the enemy 's Welsh archers had been used at once ; but Edward or his advisers thought they could settle things swiftly by an all-out cavalry charge . |