Example sentences of "[that] it [modal v] [verb] [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spoke and evidently felt strongly of the degradation that it would have been to the parry to have elected a leader by secret ballot . |
| 2 | Everything was very hush-hush , and it was not until it was over that the name of the target was made common knowledge — not that it would have been of any interest to us if we had known beforehand , because none of us had ever heard of it . |
| 3 | She was so out of it that it would have been like making it with a corpse . |
| 4 | Nevertheless the episode had shown the Government that it had no authority to ban newspapers published in Tanzania which were properly registered and also that it might have been in difficulty had it not discovered a technical irregularity in the case of Ulimwengu . |
| 5 | I mention Husserl because I think that it may have been via Husserl that Wittgenstein acquired his own interest in intentionality . |
| 6 | ‘ We think that it could have been in the Holborn Circus area . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Though we knew by the place where he had fallen that it must have been at the very summit just as the path runs down the cliff to Kinghorn Manor . ’ |
| 8 | I think ( I can not remember the number ) that it must have been at least 20 lashes he received and I felt every one of them . |
| 9 | Laurin concluded that the Tetraceratops , as a species , lay between the pelycosaurs and therapsids , and that it must have been on the way to becoming a mammal . |