Example sentences of "[adj] [vb mod] [verb] be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In retrospect the most important event of 1986 may have been the conception of the new Networker train , filling a vital gap price and quality wise , at long last making it possible for NSE to plan systematic replacement of old EMUs . |
| 2 | As far as I know he never took her up on any of these , and that may have been the reason why I was her least favourite Waaf on the station . |
| 3 | That may have been the occasion on which , according to tradition , Betsy went to her quarters and changed her clothes as disaster threatened , her fear of the elements being less than her horror of being washed ashore in less than spotless undergarments . |
| 4 | 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 — |
| 5 | And certainly n the case of Holland 's subsequent defeat by Switzerland , that may have been the crucial factor . |
| 6 | That may have been the reason . |
| 7 | That may have been the decline that they chopped all these shops out , and so er well as far as this side of the road , right hand side coming from the city end . |
| 8 | And in more stable times , that may have been the secret of their success . |
| 9 | My mother told my father and I think that must have been the worst time of my life . |
| 10 | ‘ That must have been the manuscripts . |
| 11 | He was flim-flamming , of course , but that must have been the general burden of the letters . |
| 12 | That must have been the only man ever to get no points three times in a row . |
| 13 | That should have been the end of it . |
| 14 | He got rid of me and that should have been the end of it . |
| 15 | It would seem from the pleadings to which I have referred that that should have been the end of the case . |
| 16 | That should have been the end of it but it most certainly was not . |
| 17 | At such a moment , creation is of the utmost importance , and is central to everything , so strong must have been the mingling of emotions . |
| 18 | In Vincent 's case , this may have been the very reaction he wanted . |
| 19 | This may have been the collection that has finally established medium to good pieces of this period as part of the mainstream of serious American furniture collecting . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The motive behind this may have been the desire to assist monasteries in living according to canon law ; for the Second Lateran Council of 1139 had forbidden churchmen to participate in justice de sang ( the trial of crimes punished by corporal or capital penalties ) . |
| 23 | This may have been the time when Nero and his advisers were concerned about Britain . |
| 24 | This may have been the same object as that lent by Gaston I to Clement V. The pope agreed to keep the talisman safely and to excommuni-cate anyone else who attempted to use it . |
| 25 | This may have been the result of cramming so much into a restricted space , but it diminishes the significance of the book as a whole . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | While this may have been the assumption in 1903 , it is not necessarily the case today that such treaties can be modified or suspended by the parties . |
| 28 | This may have been the reason why no invitation was proffered . |
| 29 | There is some evidence that this may have been the case . |
| 30 | This may have been the factor which enabled him alone to burn clinker successfully , since a glass kiln would be more likely to reach the temperatures required for successful burning of Portland cement rather than the lime-burning kiln used by his competitors . |