Example sentences of "[modal v] have [be] a [adv] different " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things might have been a little different if Tony Crosland had still been at the Department of Education and Science , but I doubt it . |
| 2 | If I had touched her it might have been a very different thing ! |
| 3 | Without my helmet and life jacket it could have been a very different story . |
| 4 | I think if Dvořák knew his First Symphony was being regularly played he would not have been entirely happy , for undoubtedly had he revised it , it would have been a wholly different work , and probably shorter . |
| 5 | That would have been a very different matter . |
| 6 | It would have been a very different scene a few weeks earlier . |