Example sentences of "have been [art] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before there would have been a striker in there to finish it , so that 's the way to do it , you know the roles are reversed and we 've getting a bit of luck . |
| 2 | Since , in northern climes , water-clocks must have been a nuisance in winter when they froze , in the fourteenth century sand-clocks were invented . |
| 3 | If the Queen 's telescope had been able to reach into Patrick 's classroom , there would have been a surprise in store for her — but not for Patrick , who at least affects to believe the story that Orwellian minders are peering at the punters from the screens of the punters ' television sets . |
| 4 | He should have been a character in a Balzac novel . |
| 5 | He could easily have been a character in a Thomas Mann novel — the great remote maestro venturing down from The Magic Mountain to talk to a visiting writer . |
| 6 | He may have been a character in Kilburn 's past , but a folklorist , N A Hudleston , suggested he was Grim , otherwise the Norse god Odin . |
| 7 | ‘ It would have been a chance in a million but maybe next time we will be lucky . ’ |
| 8 | There must have been a blueprint in F.B.I.H.Q. for Legal Attachés ' premises , because the set-up in London , the mechanism of the outer security door , was identical to the one in Rome . |
| 9 | ‘ You must have been a kid in school ! |
| 10 | Suez , in 1956 , may have been a buoy in the main stream of British history , marking the end of empire and the beginning of the post-imperial era , but the course taken by Britain when rounding that buoy was based upon her experiences since the end of the Second World War . |
| 11 | It might have been a weakness in his command of the language , but she did not think so . |
| 12 | Herbert von Karajan would probably have been a phenomenon in any age — musical talent of this order , high intelligence , and such singleness of purpose rarely go unregistered — but the twentieth-century context has made the career an unusually fascinating one , even if it has not always been very well understood by the apprentice biographers or the journalists who find Karajan such an irresistible source of copy . |
| 13 | The stuff circulating in her veins by then must have been a cocktail in which blood was a fairly minor ingredient . |
| 14 | … then , without any question of resort to a court of equity , there might have been a defence in a court of law on the ground that any money recoverable on the note by the plaintiffs was recoverable by them merely as trustees for Sir Richard Temple , and that , under the circumstances disclosed by the correspondence , the relations between the father and son were such that it was impossible to suppose that the father wished to insist on payment of the note by the son . |
| 15 | If he 'd gone to the crematorium mortuary with Alan , there would have been a blank in my mind , as I had never seen it , and anyway it was thirty miles away . |
| 16 | The company 's satisfaction with labour relations at Bridgend in South Wales must also have been a factor in the decision to build a £750m engine plant there . |
| 17 | Migration may have been a factor in the 1920s , though the level of net migration from Britain was somewhat less than it had been in the previous two decades . |
| 18 | But , he added , ‘ we could have been a factor in the , failure of Super-SARA . |
| 19 | The source of ivory may well have been a factor in reserving it very largely to symbolic rather than practical use . |
| 20 | The military involvement of the northern Angles against the Picts may have been a factor in the success of Wulfhere 's coup in Mercia in 658 or 659 and in the disintegration thereafter of Oswiu 's southern imperium . |
| 21 | 730 onwards , this could have been a factor in the aggressive policies of Aethelbald in southern England at this time . |
| 22 | Such conditions are all too rare today ( works bought for public institutions like the Tate disappear from view for decades together ) , and it must have been a factor in the decision of some artists to give in the first place . |
| 23 | It may have been a factor in leading a plaintiff to sue in the county court rather than the High Court when his or her claim lay within its jurisdiction . |
| 24 | A perceived lack of response may have been a factor in the withdrawal of these patients , but deterioration of eczema was the principal reason for withdrawal in only 8 patients , 7 of whom were assessed at least once on treatment . |
| 25 | They also believe that their poor accomodation may have been a factor in loosing the baby . |
| 26 | We share a common ancestor with chimpanzees , so at some point in either our ancestry or chimps ' there must have been a change in chromosome number . |
| 27 | ‘ He should have been a candidate in … |
| 28 | There would probably have been a cover-up in any army , if only to find the time to deal with the malefactors by the army 's own rules . |
| 29 | Aldfrith would then have been a man in his early thirties at his accession in 685 , which seems more credible . |
| 30 | The men in berets at the house at Hackballs Cross , the possibility he might once have been a gunman in his wild and woolly youth . |