Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] have been [adv] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily Miss Malley was on leave at the time , otherwise this event might just have been too much for her . |
| 2 | Even though the annual value of these rights could hardly have been as much as £100,000 a year , the Company was ready to outdo the Bank of England and the East India Company and take on £9½m. of the National Debt , which would have been about a quarter of the total outstanding after the Treaty of Utrecht . |
| 3 | Brian felt that sleep need not have been too much of a problem : he could go to sleep , but the staff would not let him . |
| 4 | A return to the reviled rates would presumably have been too much to take . |
| 5 | This brain drain' must have been viewed by the authorities as acute , otherwise there would not have been so much coverage of the issue in the media . |