Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] be [prep] that " 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 | He should have been like that , happy with a wife and children . |
| 3 | It must have been at that time that his habit of keeping notes on his travels began . |
| 4 | They must have been at that game for ages — and no anaesthetics , either . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , it must have been after that he had his accident . ’ |
| 7 | Something like that , it must have been like that . |
| 8 | Marley must have been like that himself . |
| 9 | It must have been like that for Euturpia , when she was turned out to the cabana . |
| 10 | It must have been in that one moment of darkness , as she 'd been taking her hand away . |
| 11 | The Ministry did tell us not to waste effort growing flowers , but somehow one always felt they were not quite as right as they might have been on that one . |
| 12 | Oh that 's er , I would say about nineteen forty roughly I 'd say about nineteen forty that came in , might have been before that . |
| 13 | The end result might only be a slight scratch , but the potential might have been in that situation for something a lot worse . |
| 14 | ‘ Whether you are a king or a street sweeper , we all have to dance with the Grim Reaper , ’ he uttered — which you may remember is from that poignant , sensitive art movie , Bill And Ted 's Bogus Journey . |
| 15 | Could have been on that boardwalk thing that we spoke about just across the road . |
| 16 | Could have been on that . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | I do n't think that chair could have been in that book Brian . |
| 19 | But may have been through that earlier . |
| 20 | Sad though that may have been for that particular patient , there was a positive side , the cancer never reappeared . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And they would have been at that muckle supper . |
| 24 | Do you imagine that we are the way we are about money because of mother or because we would have been like that anyway ? ’ |
| 25 | Lopes LJ : Speaking for myself , I think it ought to have been in that form , and probably a little bit stronger . |
| 26 | She can afford be like that . |