Example sentences of "[modal v] have [been] [adj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose looking back on what I said at the time it was true and I did really love you and I still do but now it 's not sexual or romantic , it was n't sexual then because my mind was too pure and partly because you were such a huge chunk of my life , one seventh , and I think I always will do n't know what that 's su oh it 's love you I suppose for you it must have been such a small thing and at fifteen stroke sixteen you can probably only just remember me I was fourteen actually I was the middle son who was n't properly blond unlike the brothers and hung around near you far too much . |
| 2 | I must have been unconscious a long time . |
| 3 | It could have been such a futile act . |
| 4 | For men like these a university education would have been unthinkable a few years earlier , but in 1920 Burma obtained its own university on a campus outside Rangoon . |
| 5 | The Swiss crew was stroked by Jeremy West , the French crew included East German veteran Rudi Helm , the USSR/Italian team included masters Schaparenko and Tichenko and there was a USSR/Israeli crew , something which would have been unthinkable a short time before . |