Example sentences of "[det] [vb mod] [verb] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , that may have been the right impression , and I do n't want to force you to say more than you want to , or really anything , but I 'd like to know if you still want to write to me , possibly just about books , or if you wanted to — |
| 2 | And certainly n the case of Holland 's subsequent defeat by Switzerland , that may have been the crucial factor . |
| 3 | That must have been the only man ever to get no points three times in a row . |
| 4 | He was flim-flamming , of course , but that must have been the general burden of the letters . |
| 5 | This may have been the simple truth ; it may , alternatively , have been an instance of the use of delay by an intelligent but reluctant pleader . |
| 6 | In Vincent 's case , this may have been the very reaction he wanted . |
| 7 | One reason for this may have been the conventional wisdom that secularisation had made the subject well nigh irrelevant , another reason may have been that there are few areas in which the methodological problems are as acute as they are in the investigation of people 's beliefs and/or the assessment of the effect that these have upon the rest of society . |
| 8 | Now of course at this point , with many singers , one would have to change key , go into the minor , and report that , though this may have been the vocal prime , interpretative maturity still lay in the future , and that for artistic satisfaction one would have to turn to the well-known recordings of later years . |
| 9 | Our modern parental investment individualistic view would n't allow you to make that error , instead you 'd say you know you 've got ta look at the costs and benefits of the mother too and perhaps there are benefits to mothers in actively testing as it were their offspring , erm rather than just passively er accepting that they 're gon na have to be mothers and gon na have to get on with it and again you see , er I would er and this may have been the big mistake I made last year , er but again I stand by my er view on this and it 's a perfectly defensible one , erm again I think those who say that abortion is unnatural and kind of erm offends against er you know nature , are wrong . |
| 10 | Amazingly this must have been the final straw for it , because its top hinge broke and it swivelled on the bottom one , narrowly missing Miss Louise before it crashed to the floor . |
| 11 | This must have been the only time John ever had his work discussed in detail by a choreographer of Balanchine 's gifts and experience , and although Buckle described him as ‘ looking somewhat quelled ’ his nature was such as to profit from it . |
| 12 | This must have been the only totally calm day of our whole trip so we did n't get far , but it was very relaxing trailing fingers in the water and enjoying the sun ( NB water too cold to swim ! ) . |
| 13 | On the river side of the High St. there is an area with a strange name , Great Winox , and what this meant we have been unable to discover , but one theory is that this could have been the ancient vineyard . |
| 14 | With the opening of the Channel Tunnel becoming a reality , and hopefully leading to a rise in rail traffic , one can not help thinking that had the magnificiently engineered GCR survived the troubled 1960's this would have been the chosen route for this traffic . |
| 15 | Such may have been the common view , but it was not shared by the Plantagenets themselves . |
| 16 | One of these may have been the Ukrainian Division though it was not mentioned in the definition order . |
| 17 | I do n't know if that would 've been the right thing to do there . |