Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] have been an " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I had , I would n't have been an actor . |
| 2 | ‘ Ah , but you need not have been an outcast , ’ shrewdly guessed the old lady . |
| 3 | They would n't have been an embarrassment to have around . |
| 4 | The lack of reversal when splitting data by accident estimates may have been caused by a number of films with very little peripheral information in them , or it may simply have been an effect of the high correlation between risk and accident estimates . |
| 5 | He may even have been an Essene himself . |
| 6 | It is doubtful if this existed in a written form and it could well have been an oral source which Luke knew of and used . |
| 7 | It could only have been an up-front internal explosion . ’ |
| 8 | It could possibly have been an animal , for witnesses have described it as being ‘ woolly ’ and having a stale smell , rather like a sheep . |
| 9 | Thin , slope-shouldered , raincoated and thoroughly inconspicuous , he could easily have been an innocent Sunday evening wayfarer , but for the fact that Harry was now convinced he was not . |
| 10 | Even if Piłsudski had been a socialist , he would still have been an independent Polish socialist in Moscow 's eyes . |
| 11 | It would also have been an open invitation to civic disturbance . |
| 12 | Even in daylight with every faculty at full steam it would n't have been an easy search , and as things were it was abysmal . |
| 13 | If there had been a bolt on my belay at Swanage it would not have been an environmental disaster . |
| 14 | But however frustrated he was , however jealous of his younger brother 's reputation as a successful soldier , it can not have been an easy decision . |
| 15 | Also , the Euboian cleruchy may actually and ironically have accelerated the revolt it was designed to prevent — because cleruchiea had a garrison function ; but if the cleruchy was installed as early as 450 it can not have been an immediate grievance . |
| 16 | That it should require a lid painting at all suggests that it can not have been an English instrument or a Ruckers , and , if its shape is drawn as carefully as the presence of an accompanying scale would indicate , the rather blunt double curve of the bentside would suggest one of the Hamburg makers . |
| 17 | He can not have been an easy man and had , at least , a ferociously sober intelligence . |