Example sentences of "have been a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it may have been a grunt of irritation that his lovely hire-car was steaming up with two sweaty , stinking hill-walkers who had forced their way in uninvited , but I prefer to think disbelief . |
| 2 | In any case , it must have been a question of degree . |
| 3 | It might have been a question of time , it may have been a question of tooling , it may have been a question of instruments , it may have been a question of materials , raw materials , or a compilation of all of these things . |
| 4 | It might have been a question of time , it may have been a question of tooling , it may have been a question of instruments , it may have been a question of materials , raw materials , or a compilation of all of these things . |
| 5 | It might have been a question of time , it may have been a question of tooling , it may have been a question of instruments , it may have been a question of materials , raw materials , or a compilation of all of these things . |
| 6 | It might have been a question of time , it may have been a question of tooling , it may have been a question of instruments , it may have been a question of materials , raw materials , or a compilation of all of these things . |
| 7 | Another thing that interested me was a comment from an ex-Liverpool defender who said , and I quote : ‘ If Alan Shearer had joined Manchester United , it would have been a question of who finished second ! ’ |
| 8 | ( Did the romanticists among you imagine that you would have been a member of the gentry if you were alive in this England of 1700 ? ) |
| 9 | It is believed the victim may have been a member of the Irish People 's Liberation organisation . |
| 10 | This means that each adult Korean both male and female , must have been a member of eight organisations — which one must recognise as absurd . |
| 11 | Many considered she should have been a member of the royal commission on population ( 1946–9 ) but she did give evidence and published her widely read The Population of Britain in 1947 . |
| 12 | He may also have been a member of the Spectaclemakers ' Company . |
| 13 | Could n't have been a member of the Cabinet , they agreed . |
| 14 | To be eligible to attend a meeting of the General Committee referred to in paragraphs ( e ) or ( h ) , a person must have been a member of this Constituency Labour Party for at least twelve months prior to the date of the relevant meeting and have attended at least one previous meeting of the General Committee during the same period . |
| 15 | its inflation must be no more than 1.5 per cent than the average of the lowest three inflation rates in the EMS ; 2. its long-term interest rates must be no more than 2 per cent than the average of the lowest three member countries ' rates ; 3. it must have been a member of the narrow band of fluctuation for at least two years , without a realignment ; 4. its budget deficit must be no larger than 3 per cent of GDP ; 5. its National Debt must not exceed 60 per cent of GDP . |
| 16 | ‘ All we do know , ’ he concluded , ‘ is that the assassin must have been a member of the community at the Tower who knew Sir Ralph had changed his bed chamber , and he or she either committed the murder or hired a professional assassin to do it for them . ’ |
| 17 | We used these techniques to show that there must have been a state of infinite density in the past , if the general theory of relativity is correct . |
| 18 | Firstly , there must at least once have been a flow of funds from savers to the trust and on to borrowers , when the trust was first established . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We have already seen that this may simply have been a way of saying that Wulfstan had secured an undertaking that they were going to abandon practices which he found displeasing . |
| 21 | It would have been a way of criticising his regime which it was difficult to counter directly , and , in the short term perhaps most troublesome of all , it was possibly also a source of popular disorder . |
| 22 | Until quite recently there might have been a sting of sarcasm in her voice , the anger of the betrayed . |
| 23 | The killing of Earnwine , son of Eadwulf , in 740 may have been a prolongation of older rivalries which sparked off a new cycle of vendetta . |
| 24 | There was always the possibility , of course , that his suggestion of a fortnight ago may have been a whim of the moment , and he would no longer be approving of the idea . |
| 25 | Without that damned barrister there could well have been a verdict of accidental death . |
| 26 | I think the image might have been a ghost-negative of doctor number one — his black tracksuit and powerpack plimsolls , and the satisfied wince he gave as he pointed at my chest with a shake of his head . |
| 27 | There may have been a grain of truth in this , and indeed the symptoms suffered by many people were real enough , but it was question-begging in the extreme to say that the states of mind induced were due to evil forces . |
| 28 | It should have been a crow of triumph , but Robbie felt very far from exalted . |
| 29 | This would have been a correlate of the impact value of the thesis , since it would have indicated the level of acknowledgement of the content of the thesis by the same or other authors . |
| 30 | There must have been a proportion of shy , bashful ones around , but they were not in evidence amongst the mob which harassed us day by day as we tried to make our way around the town on our own affairs . |