Example sentences of "[adv] [modal v] [verb] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This alone would have been sufficient grounds for divorce as far as my Pop was concerned . |
| 2 | He had to look into her eyes because he was so close to her that to look elsewhere would have been blatant rudeness . |
| 3 | well must have been different neighbours to my day ! |
| 4 | To judge from the surviving accounts of the escribano detailed for the occasion , it was a ceremony that today would have been ideal grist for the television networks . |
| 5 | In these studies , Bjornsson used groups of 24 or more readers ( of whom half at least would have been native speakers ) and calculated correlations to check the reliability of their judgements , On sets of 100 texts , the correlations were on average 0.99 , which suggests that for adults at least , there is a high level of agreement about what is difficult . |