Example sentences of "[det] [modal v] [verb] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That may have been one factor in causing her subsequently to bring up the children in the Jewish faith . |
| 2 | ‘ That must have been old Mrs Rogers . |
| 3 | That should have been six times nought point two over |
| 4 | Now that should have been front page news — a well-written piece I thoroughly enjoyed . |
| 5 | Hull , too , suffered from the poor relations between England and the Hanse in the second half of the fifteenth century , and this may have been one factor which affected the trade of York , which had used Hull as a centre for exports . |
| 6 | This may have been one way in which a girl could emulate the " lad o' pairts " and improve herself through education . |
| 7 | This may have been one reason why the national body was , in the first instance , entitled the Committee for Local Authority Higher education and presumably why its membership includes a representative from the Association of Principals of Colleges , a body broadly representative of those further education establishments other than polytechnics and colleges and institutes of higher education . |
| 8 | This must have been one hell of a shock , and you 're overwrought , that 's all . |
| 9 | This might have been five knots , five miles an hour , |
| 10 | One deduction from this could have been that property should be as widely dispersed as possible , to enlarge the bounds of the citizen body . |
| 11 | Monaghan came close to snatching victory but this would have been rough justice on Cavan who showed flair and fluency in the first half before fading . |
| 12 | If Philippe knew of — or even suspected — the existence of this story , this would have been adequate reason to abolish a powerful movement whose knowledge of it could give the descendants of the Merovingians excuse to usurp the throne , claiming direct lineage from Christ . |
| 13 | Prices of appellation d'origine controlee wines rose to what some would say were over-ambitious levels but lack of demand has forced them down again by a tenth or more in Britain with even bigger discounts available in French supermarkets . |
| 14 | In other words , part of the essence of Cobol clarity is being preserved at the expense of what some would argue is object-oriented programming 's inherent expressiveness at the fine object level . |
| 15 | Whether this will persist is another matter . |
| 16 | That might have been some deterrent of some description . |
| 17 | He thought of sitting down to wait for a break in the storm but that could have been all night so he struggled on downhill , angling a little to the left , until he met the treeline at the bottom of the meadow . |
| 18 | These may have been real people , but they were n't real Nazis . |
| 19 | It is hard to imagine , though , how the non-performing members of the companies memorized the more intricate turns of the refrains in the Florentine manuscript , but then these may have been instrumental improvisations . |
| 20 | As I use Taskmax and Windows 3 , both of which use SWAP designations , these would have been primary candidates for missing disk space , except in both cases the swap areas are allocated to E : \WIN — a subdirectory on a 3Mb RAM drive . |
| 21 | Had you succeeded in your plan , all would have been plain sailing . ’ |
| 22 | They could have sent me to prison for two years but that would have been political suicide . ’ |
| 23 | That would have been cruel comfort . ’ |
| 24 | In his second day of evidence before Sheriff Brian Lockhart , he said that that would have been good management . |