Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] those " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Salam , 84 , a Sunni Muslim , is the most impressive of Lebanon 's dying breed of elder statesmen , but his words could have been those of a much younger man . |
| 2 | With the new regime in 1660 , there must have been those who had old scores to settle . |
| 3 | ‘ It must have been those boys who climbed the wall after my apples , ’ said Miss Miggs . |
| 4 | It must have been those candles at the table . |
| 5 | His principles may have been those of the past , but his virtues were those of the new governments of Europe : common sense , ability , efficiency . |
| 6 | The standards of humanity and gentility expected of guards , or shown towards prisoners , may not have been those of Alexander Paterson or the Howard League ; but there were standards , which were informally learned and informally but forcefully demanded of the guards . |
| 7 | I could not identify my feelings , they must have been those of shock . |
| 8 | In movements which could have been those of a somnambulist Kersey had retrieved his cigarettes and was placing one between his lips while feeling in his pockets for a lighter . |
| 9 | ‘ It must have been those honeyed cakes , ’ she added hurriedly , and gestured to the Empress . |
| 10 | On the other hand , the pressing need for a dynamic pope to exploit the political vacuum left by the unexpected death of the Emperor Henry VI and the advantages of a third Roman pope in a row may have won over the opposition — and there may have been those impressed by his vigorous views on the papacy 's role . |
| 11 | Thereafter both curves are identical suggesting that the patients who died immediately after surgery might possibly have been those whose life expectancy was less than two years . |
| 12 | The forces of Theuderic which Gregory thought were present at Vézeronce may have been those of Theodoric , angered by the murder of his grandson . |
| 13 | There would n't have been those sort of opportunities . |