Example sentences of "this [modal v] have been [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this should have been enough to turn us from a nation of householders into a nation of shareholders . |
| 2 | The vitamin E level would have had to fall much further to produce a deficiency and this would have been unlikely to happen in Alan or anyone else unless they are eating a very poor diet indeed . |
| 3 | This would have been enough to allow the guardians to purchase 300 hot cross buns for the inmates at current prices ; that , too , was duly authorised for Easter 1930 . |
| 4 | But six months ago none of this would have been enough to make him invite her company for longer than was politely necessary . |
| 5 | It is a matter for speculation whether or not this would have been enough to cut the ground from underneath the feet of the DHAC , but in any case the situation had been radically transformed by the 5 October march and by the prorogation of Londonderry Corporation announced on 22 November 1968 by the O'Neill government . |
| 6 | Indeed this would have been difficult to achieve within its methodology . |