Example sentences of "[modal v] have been that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should have been that thing squared and now we then having worked it out that far , |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | An uncommonly good lunch it must have been that day . |
| 4 | The reason for excluding the Schutzkorps from repatriation must have been that , although it included a number of Soviet citizens who had joined during the war , a large majority of its members had lived outside Russia since the Civil War and had become passport holders of other countries , mainly Yugoslavia . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A reasonable defence might have been that field sports were preferable to roaming the docks but , instead , the chief rabbi was assured that the boys needed the exercise . |
| 7 | I suppose some people might have but I think I did n't really want to face up to the fact that he might have been that man on the beach . ’ |
| 8 | For a few brief moments Carnelian 's face might have been that of a Polymorphine shape-shifter viewed at fast-forward speed passing through absurdly accelerated transformations . |
| 9 | It might have been that night I dreamed |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It might have been that thing that er that bloke puts in them . |
| 12 | Their relationship was civilized and uncomplicated , and she wished it could have been that way too for Vi and Jane . |
| 13 | ‘ Corporal ’ — her voice was clear and could have been that of a schoolteacher reprimanding — ‘ I have n't much opinion of my legs , but I can assure you you are not the type of man I would allow within parade ground distance of them , let alone pull them . ’ |
| 14 | This could have been that one chance ’ . |
| 15 | One deduction from this could have been that property should be as widely dispersed as possible , to enlarge the bounds of the citizen body . |
| 16 | Clearly Adalard 's influence was great ( Nithard was not alone in identifying Ermentrude as " Adalard 's niece " rather than as the daughter of Count Odo of Orléans , Adalard 's brother-in-law , though an obvious reason could have been that Odo had died eight years before , perhaps leaving Ermentrude in her uncle 's care ) . |
| 17 | It could have been that , I suppose , which made the hairs on the back of my neck feel like they were giving off static . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh yes — certainly could have been that . ’ |
| 19 | It could have been that . |
| 20 | Mm could have been that one . |
| 21 | Could have been that . |
| 22 | It may have been that while in Japan he found the taste of humble pie just a little too much to stomach . |
| 23 | It is tempting to think that one of these robbed tombs may have been that of Imhotep , buried near to the king he had served . |
| 24 | Or it may have been that , looking at that blueprint form , some of them saw that something more could be done with it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We could have just done the place over and that would have been that . |
| 27 | It would have been that . |
| 28 | The kind of company he would most have liked would have been that of a family , his own . |
| 29 | In other words , the effect would have been that , even where official DSS error was proven and admitted in the case of those receiving supplementary benefit prior to 1988 , no back payment to rectify the error would have been made . |
| 30 | would have been that er discrepancy . |