Example sentences of "[adv] have been [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every game between the teams since has been a struggle for superiority and status with Dundee in the role of the local aristocrat and St Johnstone the perennial grousebeater . |
| 2 | I agree with my hon. Friend that in the past the weakness when farmers have got together has been the quality of marketing and management that they bring to a project . |
| 3 | This method alone has been the downfall of countless ' big fish up and down the country , and I foresee its popularity increasing in the coming seasons . |
| 4 | The best thing of all has been the chance of taking part in this war … |
| 5 | Investors have frequently been offered special inducements , but the biggest inducement of all has been the underpricing of many of the issues and the chance of an immediate profit . |
| 6 | Most significant of all has been the fact that it is now possible for banks to engage in a full range of securities related business along the same lines as the German universal banks , a practice which had hitherto been avoided in the UK through the imposition of self-imposed constraints . |
| 7 | Most impervious of all has been the news , making only brief reference to items such as the 1967 Sexual Offences Act or the more recent Local Government Act . |
| 8 | One of the dominant themes in the redistribution of population in the Western World over the past twenty years or so has been the dispersal of population from large cities to medium and small-sized settlements . |
| 9 | One of the most remarkable discoveries arising from oceanographic research over the past two decades or so has been the youth of oceanic sediments and the underlying basaltic crust . |
| 10 | Next week , if the plot had not been uncovered , it would apparently have been the turn of his white comrade , Joe Slovo . |
| 11 | If the question of professional misconduct had been pursued the issue would not merely have been the efficacy of the Code but the power of the employer against the strength and stature of the profession , and thence the credibility of the profession . |
| 12 | And so it was that she died alone in a mental hospital — as Eliot told Violet Schiff , one of the few who had known them both from their earliest days together , death could only have been a deliverance for her . |
| 13 | Now , I do n't think we know what was the exact Sterling equivalent of the fall in our reserves during the last financial year , but it can only have been a minority of that total of £1and1/2 ; billion of public expenditure which was met neither by the product of taxation nor by borrowing from the public . |
| 14 | Our respective manners proved so widely different , that it would have been quite presumptuous in me to do anything but separate from an undertaking upon which I could only have been a clog . ’ |
| 15 | Rune muttered what could only have been a string of invective in his own language as he released his hold on her . |
| 16 | The French had obviously suffered a debâcle but , in itself , the opening up of the frontier with China might only have been a prelude to Chinese invasion and ensuing catastrophe . |
| 17 | The South Saxons whose numbers we shall never know with any accuracy , built up a complex Wealden farming system , backed by a communication network that can only have been an extension of the lesser economic roads of the Romano-Britons . |
| 18 | ‘ It can only have been the smell of the mothballs . ’ |
| 19 | It might only have been the light reflected from his costume , yet once again he seemed embarrassed by her presence . |
| 20 | It may only have been the milestone of hitting thirty , but I could n't help feeling that it was proof that life was passing me by . |
| 21 | Between these extremes conditions varied endlessly , with so many towns sharing the social structure of their rural environments that cases of exceptional wealth can only have been the outcome of special circumstances . |
| 22 | This in turn suggests that class politics of the old sort may only have been the politics of modernism in its classic , now discredited phase . |
| 23 | Just before ten o'clock , in the stillness of the night , I heard the noise of a motor car : it could only have been the doctor 's . |
| 24 | ‘ Obviously having been a player here I desperately hope the club can pull out of trouble . ’ |
| 25 | Because of this view I have , I believe Alfieri need not necessarily have been a lawyer as almost any other outsider would have done the job just as well . |
| 26 | A symbol which is a male symbol appears in our culture to represent maleness , in a way in which earlier this may not necessarily have been the case . |
| 27 | I think its a bit of a simplification to say that its , its nature 's way of keeping us going , because actually er ro , the idea that romantic love is the start of a life long relationship that produces off spring is really quite recent , erm for , for most of history er marriage 's were on the basis of continuing er lines , continuing property and people had to erm some how or other cope with living with ano another person that might not necessarily have been the person that they would of chosen from love and , and this is still true in many societies and situations now . |
| 28 | ‘ She was n't clean enough to have been a harem girl . |
| 29 | Nevertheless the technique is attractive enough to have been the subject of further development work ( Bakhuizen , 1979 ; Hair , 1983 ) and commercial exploitation ( Kuo and Butts , 1982 ) . |
| 30 | The story 's climax , had he reached it , was obviously to have been the outcome of his meeting with the widow 's beautiful and gifted daughter . |