Example sentences of "have be a different [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With best figures of 3 for 43 it looked like a case of unfulfilled potential ; but Robinson has been a different proposition this season , and claimed a new career-best of 5 for 48 — and a match return of 9 for 68 — in Yorkshire 's emphatic win over Essex . |
| 2 | The managing director , Roger Spence , said : ‘ It has been a different sort of recession as traditionally the view is that theatre and leisure areas do better than others , but that has not been the case . |
| 3 | But from the moment she 'd come downstairs he 'd been a different man . |
| 4 | Existence had battered him , he said , remaining where he was , seeming not to have heard her : there 'd been a different child once . |
| 5 | ‘ It would have been a different story if the brewery had done the earlier repairs . ’ |
| 6 | It would have been a different story if they 'd had to find the key money for the flat themselves . |
| 7 | Had either realized her knack of manipulating it might have been a different story , but Sarah never allowed her determination to show . |
| 8 | If he 'd been alive when Robert kicked up all that riot and rumpus , there 'd have been a different story , I can tell you . ’ |
| 9 | If they had been , it might have been a different story , for Owen himself only carried arms when he had reason to believe he might need them . |
| 10 | If one of these had gone in it could have been a different story . |
| 11 | However the front end of the Ballymena triple failed to produce the same consistency in the second half of the game , otherwise it may well have been a different story . |
| 12 | It would have been a different story 30-plus years ago when John was a professional , playing in the First Division for Luton Town at soccer shrines like Old Trafford and Anfield . |
| 13 | It might have been a different person . |
| 14 | But 1940 would surely have been a different tale , if 1937 and 1938 were anything to go by . |
| 15 | Had Hagi played for Dinamo Bucharest , whose future is now in doubt because of its links with the notorious security police , Securitate , it might have been a different matter . |
| 16 | It would have been a different matter at Oxford Circus , say . |
| 17 | It would have been a different matter if they had let him write his own account of what he had found at the Foinmen . |
| 18 | It would have been a different matter if you had been a permanent assistant in the practice . |
| 19 | If he had denied it , and we later proved he had been on the moat , then it would have been a different matter . ’ |
| 20 | At least that was what Steven thought he had shouted ; it might have been a different number , but it was something like that . |
| 21 | Without him it would have been a different car . ’ |
| 22 | It had been a different story earlier this year after the Battle of Lincoln had seen Stephen 's army defeated and the King himself taken prisoner . |
| 23 | If Charlie had been a different man , a cultivated man or effeminate or living in a bygone age when tongues were more freely unloosed , he might now have embraced Jack and told him from a full heart how he entered wholly into his joy and would die for his happiness . |
| 24 | I 'd have had that if that had been a different colour , but it 's cos it 's brown it 's no good in our kitchen . |
| 25 | Perhaps if you had been a different sort of person — less sensitive , less driven by the bitterness of your mother … ’ |
| 26 | ‘ If it had been a different time you 'd have been a doctor or an engineer , ’ Rose said . |