Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [be] [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There must have been many an occasion when agents , in particular , must have wished to see the back of him . |
| 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 | I must have been unconscious a long time . |
| 5 | The Highlands and Islands were vastly more populated then and ‘ characters ’ must have been two a penny . |
| 6 | It could have been such a futile act . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The goal certainly gave the home side a lift and they could have been level a minute later . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | While this view may have been valid a century ago , the situation has changed over the past two decades and ceramics are now widely used in many engineering applications , including wear components , seals , bearing surfaces and engine components . |
| 11 | I 'd be su I would 've been such a wreck last night if that , if Foxy had done that to me . |
| 12 | But er you know , and it would have been such a waste cos he 's bright . |
| 13 | That was not because Bill was Bill , but because it would have been such an outrageous lie , as Bill 's father would realize . |
| 14 | After the 21 May rally , demonstrations became relatively commonplace and on a scale which would have been unthinkable a month earlier . |
| 15 | For men like these a university education would have been unthinkable a few years earlier , but in 1920 Burma obtained its own university on a campus outside Rangoon . |
| 16 | The Swiss crew was stroked by Jeremy West , the French crew included East German veteran Rudi Helm , the USSR/Italian team included masters Schaparenko and Tichenko and there was a USSR/Israeli crew , something which would have been unthinkable a short time before . |
| 17 | BY NOW a small museum will have been open a couple of months , located on the edge of the airport at Port Elizabeth on the eastern side of the Republic of South African Air Force Museum ( of which more in the December FlyPast ) , acting as a regional ‘ draw ’ for aviation enthusiasts of all ilks in a land that is very air-minded . |