Example sentences of "[ex0] [vb mod] have [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore it was supposed that payments practices , and other institutional arrangements which change only slowly over time , have more influence on the velocity of circulation than any temporary changes in M. Before the First World War there may have been a good deal of truth in this assumption because the financial system was relatively unsophisticated and financial innovation was taking place very slowly by today 's standards . |
| 2 | I shall not mention Lyndon B. Johnson 's maxim about tents — but there may have been a slight hint of that in the right hon. Lady 's strategic thinking . |
| 3 | The third is the possibility , suggested also by Katib Celebi 's account of the office and supported to some degree by several contemporary documents , that there may have been a separate official muftilik of Edirne during the period : unfortunately , so shadowy is the evidence for its existence that as matters now stand it merely adds to the confusion , though could the facts about it be discovered , they might go some way toward resolving some of the problems in this vexed period . |
| 4 | Katib Celebi 's assertion that Abdulkerim was Mufti in Edirne , however , adds yet another unknown to an already difficult set of equations since it suggests the possibility that there may have been a separate official muftilik in Edirne ( and perhaps by extension in Bursa ) concurrently with the Muftilik of Istanbul — this would run contrary to the underlying assumption of the traditional view that the Mufti was the Mufti of the capital , successively Bursa , Edirne and Istanbul some of the holders of which may have become , with the passage of time , confused with the holders of the Muftilik of Istanbul . |
| 5 | Although imperfect marketing has been cited by historians as the reason for Victor 's failure , in fact there may have been a simple operational reason . |
| 6 | Originally there may have been a third piece joined to these to conceal the opening . |
| 7 | There may have been a few villages abandoned in the aftermath of the plague , particularly those on poorer soil , as their inhabitants moved to better lands to take up holdings which had fallen vacant . |
| 8 | But there may have been a broader strategic plan behind the expedition . |
| 9 | Or there may have been a sudden and unexpected explosion in the local mouse population , leading to a spate of hunting and killing by a pet cat that normally feeds only at home . |
| 10 | There may have been a formal recognition of Christianity by the leaders of some Serbian tribes as early as the seventh century , but the real beginnings of Christianity in this area date from the last decades of the ninth century and are associated with the ‘ Apostles of the Slavs ’ , the brothers Constantine-Cyril ( Kiril ) and Methodius ( Metodije ) . |
| 11 | The part you require is 560794 ( Genuine Parts ) This is equivalent to GTRIII which is a Unipart number As you have fitted two of these to no avail I would try the gauge itself As your Land Rover has been fitted with a non-original switch to work the glow plugs and this has caught fire , there may have been a short circuit which damaged the voltage stabiliser and temperature sender unit and has probably damaged the gauge itself The colour of the sender unit is not significant |
| 12 | There must 've been a little bit of snow |
| 13 | Similarly Fawn Hall , asked by North to alter memoranda to conceal his work for the contras , remembered feeling uneasy : ‘ but I believe in Colonel North , and I know that there must have been a good reason why he was asking me to do this , and I — I did as I was told . ’ |
| 14 | There must have been a good reason for the same method was also in use at other coach works . |
| 15 | There must have been a better breeze there . |
| 16 | There must have been a great fire . |
| 17 | • With Valentine 's day so near to the closing date , we were expecting hundreds of soppy cards , bouquets of flowers , bottles of champagne and heart-shaped chocolates to come flooding into the office — there must have been a postal strike . |
| 18 | There must have been a veritable orchard flourishing in her wake , which could account for the sudden urge to build an orangery among the nobbery . |
| 19 | There must have been a tacit appreciation among many potential benefactors at the end of the thirteenth century that there were already too many religious houses : whereas over seven hundred new houses had been founded in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , just over sixty followed in the next century and most of those were friaries . |
| 20 | There must have been a hundred of them — three flocks together — scrabbling over the stones , stretching out their necks and bleating . |
| 21 | And there must have been a hundred copies of a pamphlet on the campaign against street trading in animals . |
| 22 | We reckon there must have been a hundred at the meal . |
| 23 | The place was heaving when we arrived ; there must have been a thousand people squashed into the confines of the Blue Angel club , all waiting to do three minutes for Les Cox and his production team , sitting invisibly beyond the strong footlights on the small stage . |
| 24 | Instead , I simply assume that there must have been a valid reason for the cessation of emotional hostilities between us and have no desire to resume them . |
| 25 | After all , if I can get a book published as a " successful " student there must have been a dramatic change in my outlook . |
| 26 | There were thus several attempts to avoid the conclusion that there must have been a big bang singularity and hence a beginning of time . |
| 27 | Another attempt to avoid the conclusion that there must have been a big bang , and therefore a beginning of time , was made by two Russian scientists , Evgenii Lifshitz and Isaac Khalatnikov , in 1963 . |
| 28 | The final result was a joint paper by Penrose and myself in 1970 , which at last proved that there must have been a big bang singularity provided only that general relativity is correct and the universe contains as much matter as we observe . |
| 29 | There must have been a big business even when the deep litter started cos I can remember the farm next door to us working a deep litter . |
| 30 | Reference to pre-Chelsea days are rare , but Miller described in the Dictionary how he grew Monthly Roses ( the Autumn Damask ) in his original Southwark Nursery ; under glass against a warm wall , ‘ using dung placed against its backside , as practised by raising early fruits ’ , to produce roses in February , for which there must have been a ready market . |