Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] [adv] have been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could hardly have been coincidence . |
| 2 | This would not have been part of the usual flight to Los Angeles . |
| 3 | ‘ That could never have been John . |
| 4 | So when the third Whitley appeared overhead ( incidentally , Murphy said that could only have been Mahaddie ) Donnet recalled thinking that was no gentleman , and that was no Englishman . |
| 5 | Perhaps of more significance was their estimate of the cost of the rise in unemployment from 1979 to 1985 : they estimated that if the figure had remained at the 1979 level , the cost to the Exchequer in 1984–85 would only have been £7.5 bn . |
| 6 | I do n't know what progress is , but I do n't think that would really have been progress , " I said . |
| 7 | The first four should perhaps have been Giants , although the number of good female reads is a bit too heavy in April . |