Example sentences of "have be a real [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must always have been a real hope on Wilfrid 's part that a king of Northumbria from another branch of the royal family or from a noble line claiming royal descent would be more favourably disposed towards him than the descendants of Oswiu . |
| 2 | But , had the changes introduced by the Courts Act 1971 not been in place , there would have been a real possibility that the old system would have collapsed under the strain . |
| 3 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 4 | The opportunity should have been a real opportunity of doing something effective . |
| 5 | if that had 've been Cath , that would have been a real turn up for me would n't it ? |
| 6 | If not , there will have been a real loss , which will no doubt add to the rising tide of semi-literacy . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , given the one-roomed hovels many lived in at that period , there may indeed have been a real improvement . |
| 8 | We had to explain to them what a three-dimensional , you know , lock-up page was and why , you know , gutters were a certain width and if you had column rules and gutters , you know , why they were centered and why you could n't , if you had a wide margin below three columns of text why you did n't move the gutter beyond where the text was n't so white , or why you did n't move it down and have it join a rule here because it would have been a real pain in the arse to have to do that in metal , so you just sit and do it . |
| 9 | This could have been a real disaster . ’ |