Example sentences of "[modal v] have [been] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must have been such wonderful beings , and now even the legacy of their environment was being rewritten by the humans , changed with every curved floor covered by a flat grille , every piece of art ripped from the walls and studied out of context , every subtle nuance of space filled with metal and plastic , neural net cabinets , stores , machinery , even people . |
| 2 | It must have been such a shock for him when Maria Luisa had told him she was going to marry Steve . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It could have been such a futile act . |
| 5 | Smiles came from within , they were n't just a facial movement , and she stared at him assessingly as she wondered how she could have been such a fool . |
| 6 | Alternatively , the power of religious belief may have been such that each community gave as much as it could afford . |
| 7 | It may have been such a realisation ( along with the generally hostile reaction to the Framework document ) that encouraged the DES to be less specific in its second attempt at producing a framework for the curriculum ( almost a year after its first attempt ) . |
| 8 | I 'd be su I would 've been such a wreck last night if that , if Foxy had done that to me . |
| 9 | That was not because Bill was Bill , but because it would have been such an outrageous lie , as Bill 's father would realize . |
| 10 | Mostly these errors would have been such that the new macromolecule could not reproduce itself and eventually would have been destroyed . |
| 11 | The taxing code works without difficulty and the trustees would be assessed jointly — Lord Keith in Dawson v IRC referred to the fact that if all the trustees " had been resident in the United Kingdom application of the enactment would have been such that the income would have been treated as arising or accruing to all three , and all three would have been jointly assessable to tax " . |
| 12 | But er you know , and it would have been such a waste cos he 's bright . |