Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [be] with [det] " in BNC.

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1 It must have been with some degree of cautiousness and a heightened sense of responsibility that Gould once more stocked up on shot , caps , and powder on his way back through Launceston for the journey home .
2 This is not , as it might have been with such a tale , the cuckolded merchant , but rather Margery , the stupid wife , who is particularly funny because she is so unthinkingly conventionally good and who effaces any real self she may be imagined to have within a cluster of clichés .
3 If you 've let her get away from us , the only cut you 'll get is with this . ’
4 Wallace came on shortly before time and showed what could have been with some fast ground-oriented attacking .
5 If I could have departed then , never reentered the house , it would have been with some strength of mind .
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