Example sentences of "[adv] that [vb mod] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Officials think now that may have been a mistake . |
| 2 | BRIAN Clough 's Nottingham Forest and Steve Coppell 's Crystal Palace meet in a bottom-of-the-table clash at Selhurst Park today that would have been unthinkable at the start of the season . |
| 3 | If he had said , ‘ You need me , ’ then that would have been the end for him . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , if it was intended as a distraction , then that must have been the moment when he poisoned his wife . |
| 5 | Thereafter we head south again through coastal plain and adjoining mountains , through pineapple country , eucalypt forest , seaside resort , along freeways and dirt roads with houses here and there that might have been obtained through mail-order catalogues . |
| 6 | There were large boats there that could have been called ships ; they were webbed with a confusion of lines and ropes , and had the spider figures of men clinging to them . |