Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] be on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She looked exquisite , breakable , so desirable that not a few lustier members of the congregation , whose minds should have been on holier things , found themselves in a sudden , quite ferocious state somewhere between arousal and bewitchment , which could bring any man to his knees .
2 I must I must have been I must have been on good form that day
3 He had visited the place in 1937 and it must have been on this occasion that he took photographs of the village and of St Michael 's Church there ( where later his ashes were to be interred ) .
4 Could have been on that boardwalk thing that we spoke about just across the road .
5 She became aware at an early stage that there was an entirely different way of life available not far outside Baldersdale , perhaps more appealing to her , but it could have been on another planet .
6 Very much , in fact the chances were coming your way before the goals went in , you could have been on level terms an awful lot earlier .
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