Example sentences of "what [modal v] [verb] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As emerged later from the television news , he had been visiting the front near al-Amarah , during what must have been part of the offensive named by Tehran as Muharram al-Haram . |
| 2 | Then the young woman laughed merrily , her voice strengthening after what must have been years of silence , and the whole strange cellar rang with that laughter , and the glass fragments tinkled like broken bells . |
| 3 | I 'm sure none of us noticed what must have been expressions of pure panic on the faces of our two teachers and the several parents who had volunteered to keep their own children and their classmates from certain death by drowning in the pool . |
| 4 | Ultimately , he dashed out of bed and caught a cab to the theatre — where he arrived thirty minutes after what should have been curtain time , to see his erstwhile audience walking away , dejected looks on most of the faces . |
| 5 | In one hand he held a sack , in the other what might have been metal traps , or not that at all but some kind of implement . |
| 6 | Fidel Castro is no far-distant Arab , but rules an island only 90 miles from Key West , on what might have been home ground had politics gone slightly differently less than a century ago . |
| 7 | Their lights picked out the graffiti of long-dead people — prayers , curses , obscenities , threats — and what might have been messages in alien script or in the calligraphy of madness . |
| 8 | Just before I snapped out of it , aborted the failed trance , I thought I saw — although I could n't be certain — the ragged hole in the beard through which Gyggle addressed the world unravel a little at its edge , exposing a slug side of what might have been Gyggle 's lip . |
| 9 | Elinor was looking at him with what might have been respect . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps I prefer cold air to hot air , ’ he suggested urbanely , his eyes darkening with what could have been amusement at her spirited defence of her career . |
| 11 | The glitter of mockery was back with a vengeance , with a darker glint of what could have been anger in his eyes carefully screened by a rakish smile . |
| 12 | The sleeve had been carefully spread out and the cuff bore a trace of what could have been blood . |
| 13 | On the whole , these ten discs , issued to mark what would have been Ferrier 's eightieth birthday and to coincide with Paul Campion 's new discographical study ( see page 25 ) group together her recordings in a logical fashion beginning with the 1947 abridged Orfeo stemming from Glyndebourne performances . |
| 14 | ‘ What would have been Britain 's level of development had millions of them been put to work as slaves outside of their homeland over a period of four centuries ? ’ asks Guyanese professor of history Walter Rodney . |
| 15 | ‘ I ate too much last night , ’ said Betty at what would have been breakfast if they 'd made any . |
| 16 | Craft-level courses are equivalent to what would have been apprenticeship level . |
| 17 | first of all if there 's a reference , no question of validity arises , what would happen is proceedings are stayed , subject to turns that your Lordship may direct or order and then |