Example sentences of "that [modal v] have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what you 're saying , that may have been a true figure perhaps two or three days ago , but it actually is changing day by day . |
| 2 | I mean , that may have been the right impression , and I do n't want to force you to say more than you want to , or really anything , but I 'd like to know if you still want to write to me , possibly just about books , or if you wanted to — |
| 3 | And certainly n the case of Holland 's subsequent defeat by Switzerland , that may have been the crucial factor . |
| 4 | That may have been an extreme and , I hope , isolated case , but it underlines the need to ensure that teachers are not deterred from voicing concerns through fear of reprisals . |
| 5 | That must have been a one off . |
| 6 | Now I always think of that as stamina cos I think that must have been a terrific stamina thing . |
| 7 | ‘ That must have been a nice surprise . |
| 8 | Well that must have been a big bit surely . |
| 9 | That must have been a horrendous death for some of them |
| 10 | That must have been an awful lot of hens then . |
| 11 | That must have been the only man ever to get no points three times in a row . |
| 12 | He was flim-flamming , of course , but that must have been the general burden of the letters . |
| 13 | My mother told my father and I think that must have been the worst time of my life . |
| 14 | Er that should have been a fixed a fixed distance there . |
| 15 | ‘ That could have been a psychological barrier after my kind of injury . |
| 16 | if that had 've been Cath , that would have been a real turn up for me would n't it ? |
| 17 | Fair enough he may have had a very good reason for doing so but I thought that that would have been a typical apack erm he did say well you know I just want to run it by him , you know , just to make sure but you , you still needed to know why he thought that his accountant had to be involved . |
| 18 | That would have been a super piece of front play . |
| 19 | ‘ At one point I thought about stopping , ’ Rasmussen said , ‘ but that would have been a first for me , because I 've never dropped out of a marathon . ’ |
| 20 | Yeah , that would have been a good one . |
| 21 | I thought that would have been a good night in the King 's Hall tonight . |
| 22 | That would have been a preposterous estimate . |
| 23 | That would have been a fascist kind of imperial erm state would n't it . |
| 24 | I could not have opened it then in any case , for that would have been a physical impossibility — tempting though the picture is of the evil creature on the other side of the door getting a well-deserved spasm of slimy stomach bile heaved right up into his florid and trendily moustachioed face . |
| 25 | That would have been a tough one to keep quiet . ’ |
| 26 | It wo must have been I mean that was if you to get completely new clothes every time , that would have been an amazing expense would n't it . |
| 27 | And that would have been an awful loss if you had lost a a a a ham . |
| 28 | Of course , he might have been lying , I suppose , but that would have been an imaginative step for him to take . |
| 29 | Well presumably with , what we 're trying to do is create some sort of alternative family units , we do n't want , although , er , laudable what the youth service does , is , we would n't want , if they do n't want to plugged , clubbable together , if , if , if , if the , the unit could provide that , or provide alternatives to pick up the , the correlation between that and , and ordinary normal family unit , I would hope that that would have been the best way forward , erm , er , because often some youngsters are in this situation because they , they have n't found the , that sort of provision has been helpful for them . |
| 30 | Because I mean that would have been the first job offer . |