Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been one [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the following months the School managed to carry on , but the atmosphere must have been one of great despondency . |
| 2 | The overall effect of , for example , a group of elaborately dressed and bejewelled priestesses conducting a rite with carved and gilded cult objects against a background of inlaid furniture , brightly painted pillars and multi-coloured frescoes must have been one of dazzling opulence . |
| 3 | Brother Joachim , like many of the Franciscans , must have been one of these . |
| 4 | It must have been one of those little short-necked electric guitars that Lindley had . |
| 5 | It must have been one of those men Angy sketched … the one she was talking about packing up . |
| 6 | When we got on the plane , we appreciated the Chinese caution : it was a rather ancient Russian prop-driven machine , which must have been one of those the Russians bequeathed to the Chinese when they went home in the early 1960s , taking all their spare parts with them . |
| 7 | not the first or the fourth it must have been one of those in the middle , but I 'm not sure which one it was . |
| 8 | Within a week the big machines had moved in , and that corner of his parish could have been one of thousands of others in modern England — any place , anywhere . |
| 9 | I could have been one of those prophets who foretold him . |
| 10 | ‘ He could have been one of several . ’ |
| 11 | There is also the great hill-figure , the Cerne Giant , which has been identified as Hercules and may have been one of many such figures . |
| 12 | Hallucigenia may have been one of these . |
| 13 | At Oxford United a person occupying such a role would have been one of six or seven boys who were always at the front when conflicts arose with the rival fans . |
| 14 | Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French . |
| 15 | If it does not , the human race will have been one of natural selection 's dead ends . |