Example sentences of "have [verb] be [that] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Now then all we 're doing , what we should have done is that we should have had an opening balance at the beginni or the end of December when the di information was first struck .
2 What he should not have said is that he was pleased to join Blackburn 'cos they were going places , implying he did n't think Leeds were going to have any more success .
3 What I should have said was that there was no serious dispute among professionals of quality who had any discernment in such matters .
4 Erm in t the second most important criterion I would have thought is that it needs to be on a public transport corridor .
5 Now the son , Paul , would replace this patriarch merchant , about whom the kindest words an outsider might have offered were that he had an ability to survive and prosper and stay as far away from conflict as possible .
6 If it did n't come off , the worst thing that could have happened is that it would have taken a few years to move him out . ’
7 I think that the first thing that one would have to say is that we work for the Ministry of Defence , and not the Ministry of War and therefore we are about defence , we 're about the maintenance of peace , erm this you know maintaining of justice etc etc .
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