Example sentences of "have [be] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been their sheer size and the impression of power you got even when they were standing still . |
| 2 | For most it would have been their first experience of the internationalism of the movement . |
| 3 | It may well be that the Tories ' most lasting and damaging contribution to the cultural life of the nation will have been their deliberate subjection of Britain 's television companies to the crudest of market forces , which will almost certainly reduce the best programmes in the world to the shoddy idiocies everyone else in Europe and US is fed . |
| 4 | An inquest 's heard how two singers died in a car crash just days before what could have been their biggest break . |
| 5 | That the magazine never got round to asking who might be the ‘ Sports Writers ' Sports Writer ’ seems like an act of wilful self-effacement , given that the overwhelming winner would have been their own man , Hugh McIlvanney . |
| 6 | might have been their own company life before they |
| 7 | And the Beau Nash Room might just as well have been their luxury coach : twenty-three of them only for the minute , with Eddie Stratton now being held in custody by the New York Police , distanced by only a few yards , as it happened , from the mortal remains of his former wife ; and with Sam and Vera Kronquist , one of the three married couples originally listed on the tour , still in their room on the second floor of the hotel — Sam watching a mid-morning cartoon on ITV , and Vera , fully dressed , lying back lazily against the pillows of their double bed , reading the previous February 's issue of Country Life . |
| 8 | He could have been her phantom bridegroom sleeping and , overwhelmed , she slept . |
| 9 | And Ben was all she had for companionship ; those who would have been her so-called friends she would n't let over her step , and those she would have liked to call friends would n't come near her step . |
| 10 | Of all the people in the world to expose her seething mass of fears and insecurities to , Guy Sterne would have been her last choice … yet she 'd told him about Mortimer , she 'd carelessly made him a gift of her virginity , she 'd wildly announced she loved him , and now she was baring her soul over the painful anguish of her mother 's death … |
| 11 | It could have been her last name , or a state she like to exist in but I think it was a number involved . |
| 12 | Given the few moments of contemplation she 'd wanted , it would probably have been her own choice for the evening . |
| 13 | There was only one sound , a murmurous sighing that might have been her own blood in her ears . |
| 14 | Another contributor to the RD 's demise could well have been its unconventional appearance ; that space-aged body , looking like a rounded-off , stretched-out Thunderbird or a squashed Explorer , allied to Gibson 's time-honoured headstock , does look a little uncomfortable . |
| 15 | If Cornhill could influence the outcome of Test Cricket , it would have been its patriotic duty to have done so by now . |
| 16 | He may have been your foster brother , but how could you gossip about something so … personal ? ’ |
| 17 | That would have been your early marriage , right ? |
| 18 | ‘ Pity , it may have been your last day off for I do n't know how long . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ But Mr Aldrich ca n't possibly have been our guilty party either , can he ? |
| 20 | Even if they 'd been half full it would have been our only escape route . ’ |
| 21 | Last night Mr Gent 's heartbroken wife Jane said : ‘ Today would have been our 27th wedding anniversary . |
| 22 | OLYMPIC cycling star Chris Boardman may have been our big winner at the Games , but the biggest winner of all was his little boy , Edward . |
| 23 | Ted Smith was a marvellous goalscorer for Crystal Palace on both sides of the Great War and , if that awful event had not reduced the impact of his career with us , it is almost certain that he and not Peter Simpson would have been our leading goalscorer of all time . |
| 24 | It must have been his personal estimation . |
| 25 | Reports of his side having struggled to a disappointing home draw with lowly Airdrie will not have been his sole concern as he takes stock of his Scottish investment . |
| 26 | Mr Lawson 's summoning of Tina may have been his subtle way of saying that her policy for combating inflation was no alternative to his . |
| 27 | Four months later her killer is still at large and detectives are looking at the possibility that she may not have been his first victim |
| 28 | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle first refers to his presence under 994 , but this may not have been his first visit . |
| 29 | This , he agreed , would have been his first move had such a case landed on his desk , and he would have talked , too , to the local health visitor . |
| 30 | Certainly the man would n't have been his usual choice , but under the circumstances he was obliged to take Victor 's recommendation at face value . |