Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] be [prep] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the department of Health was swayed rather more than it should have been by that lobby , because the sort of service that was intended to set up in Camberwell has not yet been set up . |
| 2 | She had said ‘ the rest of you ’ and I had never heard her so distance herself before , but what astonished me was the realisation that my father must have been at that party , must have returned with my mother to the villa in the small hours , must have been aware of me in my little white pyjamas and Panama hat . |
| 3 | They must have been at that game for ages — and no anaesthetics , either . |
| 4 | It must have been at that time that his habit of keeping notes on his travels began . |
| 5 | The end result might only be a slight scratch , but the potential might have been in that situation for something a lot worse . |
| 6 | Could have been on that boardwalk thing that we spoke about just across the road . |
| 7 | She had said it was her niece because the girl was young and had black hair and because who else but Nora Fanshawe could have been in that car with her parents ? |
| 8 | I do n't think that chair could have been in that book Brian . |
| 9 | So it 's a bit frightening when you think a pensioner 's money may have been in that account at thirteen fifty on a , on ten thousand invested , and now they 're down to seven hundred . |
| 10 | And they would have been at that muckle supper . |
| 11 | And he came down he would have been working for he would have been at that time my great grandfather maybe or and he came down and he lived in lower Millfield after that and just as soon as he was out of his house , they just had the house demolished . |
| 12 | Lopes LJ : Speaking for myself , I think it ought to have been in that form , and probably a little bit stronger . |