Example sentences of "[det] [modal v] have been one " in BNC.
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| 1 | That may have been one factor in causing her subsequently to bring up the children in the Jewish faith . |
| 2 | This may have been one way in which a girl could emulate the " lad o' pairts " and improve herself through education . |
| 3 | This may have been one reason why the national body was , in the first instance , entitled the Committee for Local Authority Higher education and presumably why its membership includes a representative from the Association of Principals of Colleges , a body broadly representative of those further education establishments other than polytechnics and colleges and institutes of higher education . |
| 4 | ‘ It was only much later , when it was too late to change anything , that I glimpsed the possibility that this may have been one small way in which I had a slight advantage over Gittel . |
| 5 | Hull , too , suffered from the poor relations between England and the Hanse in the second half of the fifteenth century , and this may have been one factor which affected the trade of York , which had used Hull as a centre for exports . |
| 6 | This may have been one of the purposes behind some of Cnut 's actions , as has been suggested in connection with his interest in Ælfheah . |
| 7 | This must have been one of the more profitable periods in the mill 's history for , over the next few years , Wight installed steam power as well as a new water wheel . |
| 8 | ‘ This must have been one of the stupid ones , ’ said Nooty . |
| 9 | This must have been one hell of a shock , and you 're overwrought , that 's all . |
| 10 | This would have been one of our recommendations . |
| 11 | This would have been one of our immediate recommendations . |
| 12 | If I had been fishing that section of the drain from the other bank , as I usually do , that would have been one of the swims where I would have expected to get a run or two . |