Example sentences of "it [modal v] have been the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless it tasted excellent , or it may have been the dry French cider from my waterbottle that improved the taste . |
| 2 | The Tropicana experience began for me as soon as I arrived … it may have been the small hours yet the reception staff were still delighted to greet the new arrivals . |
| 3 | With the constructors number 501 , it may have been the only aircraft built . |
| 4 | MYSELF : It may have been the isolated act of a madman , but that does n't mean it 's isolated in history . |
| 5 | ‘ It may have been the innermost box or it may have overlapped with other sub-boxes , but it was within the compartment , yes . ’ |
| 6 | Or it may have been the sweet tyranny of his mother 's childhood rules , never quite outgrown , which he tried to recreate in his rigid adult life . |
| 7 | It may have been the Anglian advance towards Stirling which tempted Domnall Brecc , grandson of Áedán , son of Gabrán , and king of Scottish Dál Riata , to attack the Strathclyde Britons in 642 ( AU s.a. 641 : AT p.186 : CA p.144 ) . |
| 8 | It may have been the Red Trafalgar . ’ |
| 9 | Changez 's brother sent him money , too , which was unusual , because it should have been the other way round as Changez made his way in the affluent West , but I was sure celebrations in India at Changez 's departure were still taking place . |
| 10 | I think it should have been the other way round because I was black and blue from head to toe . |
| 11 | No , whoops , I might have put one on top of the other when it should have been the other way round , so always have this check , er does the answer look , I mean , no , you ca n't always tell , but sometimes you can , sometimes you can think well those two are about the same price per gram , are n't they ? |
| 12 | ‘ It should have been the best holiday of our lives but it was terrible , ’ said Deborah , also 24 . |
| 13 | It should have been the best day of my career but it turned into a nightmare . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It must have been the other one ! |
| 15 | It must have been the other one . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It must have been the tremendous strain he had been under worrying about Laura and trying to keep his job up . |
| 17 | and the back well it must have been the best part of should think a third of an acre |
| 18 | One man , Ivan Masterson , talks about how he helped pull people from the rubble and says : ‘ It must have been the second body I helped to take out … it was an awful shock seeing my uncle there with his wife beside him . ’ |
| 19 | In the end it must have been the right one because I was the best of all and I you know until five minutes before everything finished I just could n't make up my mind |
| 20 | Well so I went and then they came on the Friday night it must have been the twenty twenty fifth of July ninete nineteen thirty . |
| 21 | But dad Craig said : ‘ It must have been the same bug . ’ |
| 22 | It must have been the same in the early days of the Reich . ’ |
| 23 | It must have been the last one left in London . |
| 24 | It must have been the last straw to a tired Lancaster crew to have home in sight , and then to be attacked by a fighter . |
| 25 | it must have been the last he wrote — saying |
| 26 | Erm it must have been the last day , it must have been Friday , must have been Friday . |
| 27 | We said it must have been the worst ever experience . |
| 28 | I do n't know what kind of women you 've associated with , Luke Calder , but , believe me , it must have been the wrong kind ! ’ |
| 29 | It might have been the blazing fire in the corner of this very upmarket restaurant . |
| 30 | Chatterton thought this event had occurred on the afternoon of the tenth of January , although he did concede that it might have been the eleventh . |