Example sentences of "have [been] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Picasso 's subsequent move towards a more abstract kind of painting , the work of Braque may once again have been a stimulus , and Picasso 's remark to Braque , quoted by Michel Georges-Michel , ‘ I have tried your methods and I feel one can do excellent things with them ’ was perhaps made in connection with the new kind of painting Braque had invented in his still lifes of the first half of 1910 . |
| 2 | ‘ Must have been a holiday-maker , ’ Maggie suggested . |
| 3 | The next customer was a middle-aged man who must have been a regular , for he began by saying , ‘ Do n't often see you on this side , miss . ’ |
| 4 | He said the man had no official connection with the Milk Race which crossed the Horseshoe Pass on Tuesday , but may have been a spectator . |
| 5 | However , I never tried to get professional help , and that may well have been a mistake . |
| 6 | He was beginning to feel that it may have been a mistake , it may have been wiser to have remained elsewhere . |
| 7 | Stephenson admitted that the appointment might have been a mistake . |
| 8 | ‘ It would have been a mistake to bring in consultants immediately . |
| 9 | Clough also revealed that he thought he had signed Welsh international striker Dean Saunders before his move to Liverpool — and admitted selling Teddy Sheringham to Tottenham may have been a mistake . |
| 10 | ‘ I pleaded with the officials that the test result must have been a mistake . ’ |
| 11 | That would have been a mistake . |
| 12 | This , however , would have been a mistake as there were many quieter rewards : Richard Haslam on ‘ The patronage of repair : Palladio 's Villa Saraceno in its twentieth-century context ’ and Stephen Lloyd on ‘ Richard Cosway and the Prince of Wales ’ to name two , while Emma Barker 's ‘ Illegitimacy and the rights of the unmarried mother in eighteenth-century France ’ quickly dispelled any notions the audience might have had of topicality , and offered a reasoned discussion of nature versus civilisation in eighteenth-century literature and painting . |
| 13 | He thought now it might have been a mistake . |
| 14 | If I say it was wonderfully exciting , you will wonder when I am going to do it again , and if I say it was a mistake , which it was , you are going to ask me under what circumstances it might not have been a mistake . ’ |
| 15 | My sister thought it must have been a mistake , and kept the pound notes in case he came back for them . |
| 16 | For example I 'd like to swim ( infinitive with to ) : I saw him go ( infinitive without to ) : : To have continued would have been a mistake ( perfect infinitive ) ; He wants to be told ( passive infinitive ) . |
| 17 | This might have been a mistake , he now reflected , as he seemed to have indigestion . |
| 18 | ‘ That would have been a mistake . |
| 19 | Officials think now that may have been a mistake . |
| 20 | I now realise this would have been a mistake . |
| 21 | Peered into the mirror , pinched my cheeks , fiddled with my frizz , stuck out what should have been a chest , and , well pleased , sashayed , stiff with petticoats and pride , through the storm porch and out to the bus stop . |
| 22 | It would have been a back-of-the-head shot . |
| 23 | On that Sunday night there should have been a film show for the camp , but the projector was broken and the prisoner who knew the trade of projectionist and might have repaired it was serving his second consecutive fifteen day spell in a SHIzo isolation cell . |
| 24 | I could have been a cricketer — I had two uncles who captained the English counties years ago — but a photographer , no . |
| 25 | It might have been a necklace . ’ |
| 26 | ( The matchmaker must have been a cowboy . ) |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He was only about Nigel 's age , which meant that he 'd have been a toddler then . |
| 29 | Referring to the Braer disaster in Shetland , Capt Sclater said : ‘ This could well have been a tanker and it goes to show how vulnerable Orkney is . ’ |
| 30 | It must have been a truce . |