Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] be that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may have been that while in Japan he found the taste of humble pie just a little too much to stomach . |
| 2 | At that time the Particular Baptists were meeting in a private house and it may have been that fact rather than family disagreements on doctrinal issues which led to her being baptized at Netherfield Independent chapel on 6 August 1817 . |
| 3 | It should have been that thing squared and now we then having worked it out that far , |
| 4 | It must have been that day or the next , Adam thought , that he or one of them , surely he , had first suggested the commune idea . |
| 5 | An uncommonly good lunch it must have been that day . |
| 6 | Others said it must have been that girl who worked here , the one who was the German officer 's mistress , she knew everything that was going on around here . |
| 7 | It might have been that night I dreamed |
| 8 | It might have been that way for a while , Scum argued , but after a couple of weeks the Boroughs shitkickers moved in , and the game was up . |
| 9 | It might have been that thing that er that bloke puts in them . |
| 10 | Their relationship was civilized and uncomplicated , and she wished it could have been that way too for Vi and Jane . |