Example sentences of "[modal v] even have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , the culprit could even have been the tame squirrel . |
| 2 | There may even have been a certain temperamental affinity between Baden-Powell 's Scouting philosophy and the restless energies of Hooliganism , and he was even so outrageous as to recommend the Hooligans to the National Defence Association as ‘ the best class of boy ’ : Predictably , his remarks invited the characteristic reversal of the problem , when a member of the National Defence Association asked : |
| 3 | In the last decade , as we have seen , conventional retail credit has kept more or less in line with changes in the volume of consumer spending ; there may even have been a slight decline . |
| 4 | There may even have been a whole series of such usurpations , but the original replication process must have been sufficiently simple to have come about through what I have dubbed ‘ single-step selection ’ . |
| 5 | From its size , the knife must have had a very specific use and may even have been a surgical instrument . |