Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] be a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd have preferred to be a jockey . |
| 2 | And it would have had to be a lie anyway . |
| 3 | Coleman would have had to be a man of superhuman cunning and stupidity to have served for over 40 years fighting the very thing he was engaged in creating . |
| 4 | France was neither oblivious of nor indifferent to the outcome of the war which she was fighting and for which , as the US kept saying , she was primarily responsible ; but to have had a chance of winning at that stage it would probably have had to be a French rather than a Vietnamese war . |
| 5 | It may have had to be a lavatory or else the bus on the way home . |
| 6 | ‘ I should have liked to be a nun , except they would n't have let me smoke and I could n't live without cigarettes . |