Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] such a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps less obvious why both of them Polybius and Posidonius — should have played such a conspicuous part in exploring the barbarian West and in making it more easily accessible to the Romans . |
| 2 | Ashe , now 49 , grew up in the segregated American South of the 1950's , making it wholly appropriate that he should have become such a dedicated campaigner for equal rights all round the world . |
| 3 | ‘ I can not think , ’ remarked Russell , ‘ Why laziness should have had such a bad press . |
| 4 | They must have had such a pleasing approach to Raasay House ; the bay of their arrival seems unlikely to have changed , a wide and gentle place , now full of windsurfers — the mansion where they stayed now houses an Adventure School . |
| 5 | Nobody could have foreseen such a rapid expansion prior to , and since , moving into the new premises . |
| 6 | " Who would have thought that , without cringing , the Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union could have created such a splendid feeling among employers ! " |
| 7 | Only Lyman 's Ear could have detected such a sly whisper . |
| 8 | Without the spectators cheering me on I do n't think I could have had such a good race . |
| 9 | Well you see , what Freud had to explain here was how he could have had such a long dream when the dreamer reported that he woke up more or less instantly from the stimulus of something hitting him on the back of the neck . |
| 10 | The revolution would have come , if it was to come at all , only if the demand for industrial democracy through the agency of Industrial Co-operation , could have prompted such a comprehensive tide of sympathetic opinion as had carried parliamentary reform over the barriers of stubborn opposition . |
| 11 | The attempt has failed , through scepticism that one man could have supervised such a major project whilst still discharging Elias 's functions as steward and administrator elsewhere . |
| 12 | Although Carlson felt there was some connection with the chaos and anarchy erupting over the Althosian system he was sure none of the Freedom Party supporters would have devised such a ruthless method for annihilating the elite . |
| 13 | ‘ Because he would have had such a responsible job , he had to have the absolute backing of both countries and he clearly did not and would have been in an impossible position . |
| 14 | Galileo could not believe that a genius such as Archimedes would have used such a crude method . |
| 15 | Few articles can have made such a great and immediate impact on both the theoretical and practical planes . |