Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [vb mod] have be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I think I can take it that I must have been a little — er — unsteady with my actions . |
| 2 | ‘ For once , not Rosemary , though I 'm getting more and more desperate about not knowing what to do for the best , ’ he confessed , but went on to explain , ‘ I spent a lot of time yesterday in realising that I must have been a real wet blanket when Naylor announced your engagement on Saturday . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ After all you 've done in the past for Rosemary and me , and are still doing , ’ he went on , ‘ I got to thinking yesterday that I could have been a sight more energetic in letting you know how delighted I am that you 're going to marry my cousin . |
| 4 | I accept from Mr that she would have been a trainee manager for some part of that time and I assess her salary as being something like seven thousand pounds net . |
| 5 | In any other circumstances , Fabia felt that she might have been a trace worried — it was n't every day that she was in a foreign land , with a foreign male who , having fed her , tried his hand at seducing her . |
| 6 | Although Mr Cross was perturbed at his strange encounter , he dismissed his consternation and decided that she must have been a village girl who had watched the train and then returned home . |
| 7 | ( Did the romanticists among you imagine that you would have been a member of the gentry if you were alive in this England of 1700 ? ) |
| 8 | The scissors themselves were ordinary enough , standard office issue , and shining steel : there was no outward sign that they could have been a weapon of murder , Dexter thought . |
| 9 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that , although I welcome the economic measures to assist the Soviet Union — granted , as he rightly says , because of the courage of President Yeltsin in implementing his reforms — the other side of the coin is that it would have been a terrible mistake if we had jumped the gun and granted the assistance before the reforms were implemented ? |
| 10 | With a reply like that it would have been a waste of time and effort to pursue the issue . |
| 11 | The mine in the gill had been established about 5 years but it is very likely that it would have been an old working re-opened . |
| 12 | And came to the uncomfortable conclusion that it might have been a warning … |
| 13 | However , subsequent archaeologists proved him mistaken , seeing in Machu Picchu an important agricultural centre serving Cuzco ; others speculated that it may have been a religious centre , where handmaidens for the sun god lived . |
| 14 | He was beginning to feel that it may have been a mistake , it may have been wiser to have remained elsewhere . |
| 15 | Digital Equipment Corp realises that it may have been a little hasty in taking its toys away in a huff , and has returned to the Technology Plc fold by re-appointing the Warrington-based company as a value-added reseller for predominantly desktop and server products : DEC withdrew its business , when Technology was acquired by ICL Plc in July 1992 ( CI No 1,966 ) ; Technology has now joined DEC 's Corporate Reseller Programme , and , according to DEC UK 's director of complementary solutions organisation sales , Ian Smith , the company is expected to ‘ play a key role in our increasingly value-added reseller-led product selling strategy ’ . |
| 16 | At first this was interpreted as a separate medusa-like form , but it appears in a number of specimens in just such a position and some now think that it may have been a holdfast . |
| 17 | Alexander said that it may have been a form of epilepsy , exacerbated by the atmospheric-electric disturbances of the mistral and the heat . |
| 18 | ‘ We were just shocked after the robbery but felt that it could have been a lot worse and no great harm had been done to anybody . |
| 19 | ‘ But it seemed inconceivable that it could have been an accident . ’ |
| 20 | In the morning , Jack related his experience to his wife who listened sympathetically but reassured him that it must have been a nightmare . |
| 21 | I put it to Andy that it must have been a blow when they split in 1988 , but he , ever the voice of reason , says , ‘ There was no point in trying to keep them together , it had gone as far as they wanted it to go and they wanted to do something different . |
| 22 | We get out of the car , stomp round to the wheel , look at it , kick it , swear , look at our watch , feel guilty about not having left enough time to cope with the unexpected , open the boot , bang our head on it , swear again , wonder whether it would n't be better to walk to the phone , decide to change the wheel ourselves , lose one of the nuts and eventually arrive at the meeting half an hour late in a filthy temper , and take up the next five minutes explaining that it must have been a sharp chipping off one of those construction lorries and they overload them to save money and they ought to do something about it … |
| 23 | However , one ca n't help thinking that it must have been a source of frustration for these early travel photographers to be confronted by the riotous colours of the far east and Africa , knowing that it could only be reproduced in black and white . |
| 24 | However , one ca n't help thinking that it must have been a source of frustration for these early travel photographers to be confronted by the riotous colours of the far east and Africa , knowing that it could only be reproduced in black and white . |
| 25 | She thought now that it must have been a lamb , because of Sunday luncheon . |
| 26 | The general attitude seems to be that it must have been a madman and the Church does n't have to deal with madmen . |
| 27 | I think that it must have been a frightening experience for people trapped within the train for that time . |
| 28 | I thought he might have had a place at the Youth , it seemed to me that he might have been a leader if he 'd had the encouragement . |
| 29 | He could not see where Terry Place and his killing of William Egan , nor the idea that he might have been a poisoner , fitted into all this , perhaps nowhere , but his violence seemed to have a kind of a parallel in the Essex cases , which might illuminate his own problem . |
| 30 | Naturally , Greenidge tried to emulate Richards which , when things went well , was fine , but when they did not it meant that , for a while , he gained a reputation for not being over-reliable ; perhaps he suffered from trying to hit the ball too hard , for there were plenty of people who felt that he would have been a better player had he not tried to ‘ bury the ball into the wall of some distant building ’ ( his own words ) at every opportunity . |