Example sentences of "have be [det] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The total cost has been several million pounds more than budgeted . |
| 2 | From that time which here and elsewhere has been vaguely defined as the dawn of civilisation , to the time when the need to have a ‘ god ’ had reached the point where traces of its implementation were left for modern man to find , must have been many thousands of years . |
| 3 | This could have been that one chance ’ . |
| 4 | Er it must have been half ten , eleven o'clock , if not later I suppose . |
| 5 | How much money went with this is not known but the scale of the ruins — the shell of the reactor is still visible — suggest that it must have been several million dollars even in 1950s prices , perhaps 1 per cent of the gross national product of Argentina , or roughly the equivalent of a whole year 's research budget for a developed country . |
| 6 | How long it took the different ancestors of these very different animals to evolve such tongues we do not know for there is no fossil evidence of any antiquity to tell us , but it must have been several million years . |
| 7 | There must have been several dozen possible suggestions for an essay from that paper — political , industrial , military ( the Korean war was still ongoing ) , in sport or arts , etc. etc . |
| 8 | ‘ It would have been another 17 or 18 years before we could have had this vote again and I would have lost my chance . ’ |
| 9 | if we 'd have started de it 'd have been another six months , no disrespect to Adrian but , you know , I , I just know the history of how it would have progressed . |
| 10 | In February 1973 , when I first decided to make the journey , there can have been few twenty-eight year olds who were less fit for the task . |
| 11 | Had we used this three thousand three hundred figure as the annual migration , then the housing requirement figures come out of the projection rather then two thousand and six , would have been some ten thousand fewer . |
| 12 | She would have been some forty minutes late , and as she had no intention of ringing home to leave a message , Parr would be in a quandary . |
| 13 | ‘ Imagine that ! ’ she had said again , to her escort , who wore white gloves , of course , because it was evening , but whose name she could never remember — it might have been any one of half a dozen — and whose fresh , young face was in shadow . |
| 14 | It could have been any one of those residents , even the frailest woman . |
| 15 | Given the richness of interconnections between the boxes , it could have been any one of them that was dubbed the conscious one , so we would need something more by way of justification for choosing any particular one . |
| 16 | It could have been any one of many faces opposite me in a fashionable Italian restaurant , a woman heavily scented , expensively ajingle . |
| 17 | He could have been any one of the brothers . |
| 18 | So your on your only answer is , well it could have been any one of these five . |
| 19 | The iron mine could have been any one of several in this region there are a number of veins or strings of haematite which have been tried , as well as some quite extensive deposits . |
| 20 | The path that is output might have been any one of many equal interpretations . ) |
| 21 | This was the first increase in troop numbers for four years , and brought the Army presence to nearly 11,000 ( the peak level , in 1973 , having been some 17,000 ) . |
| 22 | There had been some 400,000 arrivals since the 1988 elections ( including 240,000 from the former Soviet Union ) , and 240,000 of them were eligible to vote , which was seen as possibly a decisive factor in what was expected to be a close electoral contest . |
| 23 | When Conchis had said that he 'd been down on Moutsa the week before , it had been this one fact , the sweet womanish perfume , that had puzzled me . |
| 24 | The Ministry policeman who checked his I/D had been another one of those patronising cretins who had obviously too soon forgotten the massive two fingers dealt them by the S.A.S. His raincoat was wringing wet , and he was drenched , when he stepped off the minibus outside H area . |
| 25 | In the past three months , there have been some 150 arrests in Oxford for car theft . |
| 26 | There have been some 35 building society mergers over the past five years . |
| 27 | However , historians and contra-cyclical investors may argue that there have been few five year periods since the Second World War when deposits have outperformed equities — and stock markets should revive over the next five years . |
| 28 | But since the 1950s , there have been several hundred articles and books , generally written by psychologists , but also from mathematicians , engineers , advertising men and so on . |
| 29 | Up to 2,500 births a year in Britain result from artificial insemination by donor ( Teper and Symonds 1985 ) and since the birth of the first ‘ test tube ’ baby in 1978 there have been several hundred such births in Britain alone ( see Edwards 1983 ) . |