Example sentences of "have been [art] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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1 | Otherwise you may aggravate something that , with a little rest and good management , could have been no more than a minor injury . |
2 | Or it may have been no more than a ruse to exert pressure and force him to reconsider . |
3 | Of course , this might have been no more than a diplomatic ruse by the Russians to initiate a dependence which would permit a later imposition of heavier tribute payments without negative results . |
4 | On waking , it occurred to her with renewed conviction that the experience of two days before might have been no more than a temporary aberration of an exhausted mind . |
5 | What this would have looked like is sometimes difficult to imagine — it may have been no more than a larger-than-average farmstead , or it may have been a palace such as those found at Yeavering and Cheddar . |
6 | This suggests that the fall in equity prices in October 1987 may have been no more than a correction to the market . |
7 | The pulse-receiver would have been no larger than a matchbox , probably receiving on something like 72.15 megahertz a signal sent from a small transmitter . |