Example sentences of "that [vb mod] have [be] a [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 | That must have been a one off . |
| 3 | Now I always think of that as stamina cos I think that must have been a terrific stamina thing . |
| 4 | ‘ That must have been a nice surprise . |
| 5 | Well that must have been a big bit surely . |
| 6 | That must have been a horrendous death for some of them |
| 7 | Er that should have been a fixed a fixed distance there . |
| 8 | ‘ That could have been a psychological barrier after my kind of injury . |
| 9 | if that had 've been Cath , that would have been a real turn up for me would n't it ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | That would have been a super piece of front play . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | Yeah , that would have been a good one . |
| 14 | I thought that would have been a good night in the King 's Hall tonight . |
| 15 | That would have been a preposterous estimate . |
| 16 | That would have been a fascist kind of imperial erm state would n't it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | That would have been a tough one to keep quiet . ’ |