Example sentences of "[modal v] have been [adj] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was favoured with your letter and should have been glad to embrace this opportunity of sending a packet of seeds to Dr. Manetti of Florence , but the season has been so cold that but few of them have ripened as yet , but if the next month proves favourable , I hope to send him some in November , if you have any opportunity to convey them . |
| 2 | Juliette Drouet , the mistress of Victor Hugo and his companion on his travels , was put out that a woman other than herself should have been able to make this ‘ difficult ascent ’ and claimed that the Duchess had needed the services of thirty guides and helpers ; less jaundiced reporters speak only of two . |
| 3 | ‘ It might have been possible to prevent this . ’ |
| 4 | Dear me , she 'd have been sad to see this day . ’ |
| 5 | I feel it would have been better to include this as a subheading to each mountain . |
| 6 | I would have been pleased to start this section in similar fashion , but could find very little evidence of improvements . |
| 7 | It would have been unremarkable had this been done through the publication of explanatory leaflets and brochures emanating from the Ministry of Transport . |
| 8 | ‘ I see Dr Nichols would have been due to cover this evening 's surgery anyway . ’ |
| 9 | I could name at least three of my friends who would have been prompt to offer this undeniably attractive young man a doss down on the sofa , and one of them who would have already been thinking of taking him upstairs for the night … |
| 10 | In one case , however , a misunderstanding of what are admittedly very unclear social security regulations meant that the minimum period was twice as long as would have been necessary to satisfy this objective . |
| 11 | Certainly this method of drawing has not been seen at a later date , and it would have been difficult to produce this quality and style of work in quantity . |
| 12 | A good spiritual director would have been able to interpret this experience and have led him , step by step , past these dangerous swings of mood to a disciplined equanimity which was rooted in a deeper part of the self and which was not so dependent upon exterior circumstance . |
| 13 | We had moved to the edges of our previously closed system of thought and action , both physically and philosophically , and almost implicitly came to recognize that the ‘ foundation metaphors ’ which Turner identifies as being crucial to transformational experience of liminality were making paradigmatic statements about our own cultural format ; although I know we would have been unable to articulate this . |