Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] be quite " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally I should have been quite glad to get someone else 's boots . |
| 2 | It is difficult to understand why the Democratic leadership should have been quite so defeatist in 1981 . |
| 3 | She 'd been writing for the NME , about David Cassidy and things like that but it must have been quite a struggle to get by . |
| 4 | ‘ Mr Brown must have been quite brave , ’ she said . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm sure it must have been quite dreadful for you , my dear , ’ said Frau Zimmerman , apparently taking the fräulein 's last remark to refer to her recent ordeal in the Bauernmarkt . |
| 6 | The shop certainly had not received a coat of paint in a long time and , though looking decrepit , in earlier years the well proportioned double-fronted premises must have been quite smart . |
| 7 | For a purely parochial event , it must have been quite an occasion because I believe that it ran from Wednesday , through to the following Saturday . |
| 8 | That must have been quite a bible lesson . |
| 9 | He must have been quite an enterprising businessman , my great-grandad , because he ran the butter cart in Baldersdale . |
| 10 | It must have been quite a crash . |
| 11 | As £20 in goods was the most any of them owned , the business of the Gobles of Petworth , one of whom was fined in 1562 , must have been quite modest ; a namesake of Thomas Page , the Alfriston defaulter , had 20 marks , and a possible forebear of George Partrych of East Grinstead was a small landowner with £5 a year . |
| 12 | Our press date prevents us giving details of this run but it must have been quite a spectacle if it went ahead as reported , and would have provided a fitting finale to an outstanding season of operations . |
| 13 | Daddy must have been quite young when he left , because he went to school at North Stainmore . |
| 14 | Here we need only point out that for most of Nietzsche 's first readers — even readers familiar with his public lectures of 1870 — the style must have been quite unexpected . |
| 15 | I must have been quite content and happy . |
| 16 | She must have been quite a joker with that bantam on her head , pigeons fluttering noisily on her shoulders ; it had all been wonderful outdoor fun . |
| 17 | It must have been quite a spectacle though when the first combine came |
| 18 | Yeah that must have been quite something to see something chugging round Hoy |
| 19 | It must have been quite a shock when he turned up on the doorstep . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ There must have been quite a few since Lucia and Michele . ’ |
| 21 | sticks , erm , there must have been quite a few schools for girls |
| 22 | It must have been quite exciting to hear them . |
| 23 | Must have been quite a Would there have been a procession behind it or anything ? |
| 24 | ‘ Mixed marriage ’ seems such an outdated expression nowadays but at the turn of the century it must have been quite a sacrifice for both of them to make . |
| 25 | is very clever to have got his weight down , and an 11-mile orienteering course at Silverdale must have been quite a testing expedition . |
| 26 | I think she must have been quite well off some time , had fallen on really hard times . |
| 27 | Chris , Chris , you know my friend , and Chris must have been quite new at this , you know that song that like when the double bass and then |
| 28 | So she must have been quite young herself then ? |
| 29 | Well that must have been quite a mess . |
| 30 | It must have been quite a shock for you all of a sudden to be dealing with millions of pounds on the budget . |