Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] be [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or it may have been that the shares were not purchased but were subscribed for and were issued to the investors by Euramco . |
| 2 | Or it might have been that he saw , in the younger screenplay writer , someone before whom all false reticence could be cast aside . |
| 3 | In some quarters , of course , he was enormously popular , and it may have been that as a young man in his early twenties he found it difficult to cope with the adulation of the fans . |
| 4 | Defence lawyer Tony Cinnamond said , however , that Wightman 's recollection of the events were hazy due to drink and it could have been that he struck her and her head banged against the wall . |
| 5 | They cause no great problem to anybody , and what ought to happen is that the gipsies and certainly the tinkers ought to be encouraged to buy sites and develop them and police them themselves . |
| 6 | And what will happen is that when you finish with your merit paper and you 're happy just leave it where it is . |
| 7 | But it could have been that the whole truck was a set-up : corral the gringos then fleece them . |
| 8 | ‘ But what should happen is that the workflow should be built into the software so that it automatically decides what needs to be done , by whom and when , then sends it to the relevant person , noting the deadline , and recording outstanding requests . ’ |