Example sentences of "[adv] have [been] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Natch if the operation had gotten the go-code , that List would only have been part of it . |
| 2 | They can only have been insignia marking the lady 's status as a royal consort . |
| 3 | It may just have been coincidence , but since the A1GSM went in , I have had no trouble at all with fish ailments . |
| 4 | The colourless liquid in the glass she carried might just have been water , perhaps ; but whatever it was she seemed unwontedly sober . |
| 5 | But it might just have been anxiety . |
| 6 | Then he had realised that the originator of the plot could just as easily have been Burun — intending all the time that it should fail — achieving at a stroke the removal of effective opposition , placing Artai in debt to the Merkuts for the security of his throne . |
| 7 | No donor 's name is even hinted at but it could easily have been Lance Henly . |
| 8 | Polston 's goal grabbed the headlines but it could so easily have been Villa 's Garry Parker who was the hero of the night . |
| 9 | There was the dark-eyed , slant-featured look of the ancient lost Royal Houses of Ireland in several of them , the glossy hair that might easily have been fur in others . |
| 10 | Rosa often went to the washplace with Sabina to help her and she was glad that she could pull her blue cotton dress out of the basket and slosh it into the water before anyone else could examine it for stains ; not that the stain spoke openly of its origins ; it could easily have been milk , thought Rosa . |
| 11 | It surprised me but it could easily have been tiredness from being out so long . |
| 12 | This Mr Deputy Speaker , could easily have been accommodation had the bill been brought to the house just seven weeks earlier than it actually was brought to the house , seven weeks were n't the problem . |
| 13 | Had the top layer of chalk found on the surface soil of the Falaises been mostly of the Micraster type , it is extremely improbable that there would ever have been champagne . |
| 14 | Her ‘ after ’ photographs portrayed a very very different shaped lady — one you would not have believed could ever have been pear shaped . |
| 15 | Even with auxiliary regiments present , there would still have been work for an official to oversee civilian activities . |
| 16 | This could hardly have been coincidence . |
| 17 | There would hardly have been harmony between them if they had the same desires , if their interests coincided , if they were a threat to each other . |
| 18 | Only tame , domesticated animals could possibly have been part of the goods and chattels of that early band of pioneers , striking out for a new island home . |
| 19 | There would always have been ambivalence towards her charges because they were not only a means to an end , but also rivals for the limited rations of parental attention . |
| 20 | There was a transparent sachet of something brown and thick , chocolate paste or miso ; one dried-up anchovy in an open tin , its coat of salt dried to a hard crust ; and a smear of something on a saucer that might once have been pesto sauce . |
| 21 | He landed in a heap of what might once have been straw . |
| 22 | This is conceded in respect of an offence which would once have been larceny by a trick . |
| 23 | Some of the earliest TV ‘ panellists ’ , who would later have been chat show hosts but were regulars on games like What 's My Line ? in the restricted TV hours of the 1950s , were well known columnists in the popular dailies . |
| 24 | The clear association of religious cults with the buildings at Chedworth can be much strengthened by the existence of other structures in the vicinity which would probably have been part of a large establishment . |
| 25 | If he was shot sitting down there would probably have been blood on the back of his chair … |
| 26 | The motives of Fellows must quite clearly have been control of the length for a wider purpose . |
| 27 | Pascoe said : ‘ I do understand that it would also have been blackmail but in the circumstances I was n't adopting a very high moral position . |
| 28 | It could also have been irritation . |
| 29 | During 1845 no less than £45 : 0s. : 0d. was spent on slating and floor flagging at the Forge Cottages , which suggests the ground floors might originally have been earth — common enough . |
| 30 | I do n't know what progress is , but I do n't think that would really have been progress , " I said . |