Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instability was greatest at periods of high sedimentation at the onset of deglaciation , when ice sheets reached or may even have extended beyond the shelf break . |
| 2 | Wages that you earn or could reasonably have earned during your notice period will be taken into account when assessing compensation . |
| 3 | Of course the distinction drawn above only remains if we assume that it is possible for us to understand a proposition which we would or could never be justified in believing or could never come to know to be true . |
| 4 | v. We also need to increase the number of Medau classes being taught and if anyone thinks they might like an additional class or is already considering opening one and would like help to promote it , needs an introduction to pave the way with a new Institute , Leisure Centre or other official body or would just like to talk over the possibilities , please get in touch with me — I shall be delighted to hear from you . |
| 5 | All agreed it was n't ‘ a designer 's car ’ but a pragmatic commercial shape that may well look imposing outside a posh hotel but will never win any design awards . |
| 6 | Later on , products mature and become more price-elastic , allowing production advantage to shift to lower-income countries that may later begin exporting on their own account . |
| 7 | If t re is one country that should never have gambled in this game , i is Britain . |
| 8 | So Madam I 'm asking you to say that these circumstances , this is the sort of case that should never have come before the court , it should 've been sorted out between the parties themselves , with the aid of their solicitors , and that it 's only the overreaction of the police in this particular circumstance that brings him before the court here . |
| 9 | Although close to the Piazza del Duomo and its hubbub of city life , and surrounded by cars , the Piazza Mercanti manages to preserve a little of the quiet that must occasionally have existed in Medieval , pre-car , times . |
| 10 | Jan Fischer produced a transporter that might well have come from a professional machine shop . |
| 11 | Erm I 'm simply saying that there is a possibility of a an inner relief road taking some of the traffic , an inner northern relief road , taking some of the traffic that might otherwise have remained on the A sixty one . |
| 12 | ‘ 'S the only pile that 'll ever dare come in here , ’ I whispered to Jack . |
| 13 | Some things were made from almost pure platinum , others showed small proportions of gold that could easily have arisen from imperfect sorting . |
| 14 | It is important , therefore , that all those in receipt of accounting information appreciate the underlying policy implications that could possibly ensue depending on the particular treatment of various items of expenditure . |
| 15 | After that , there was a series of horrific , shaming cameos that could only have come from the unconscious . |
| 16 | Pictures that could only have come from the Americans or the British , ’ Kragan answered warily . |
| 17 | By spending three million pounds diversifying in this way he hopes not only to create new employment , but also to save buildings that would otherwise have fallen into disrepair . |
| 18 | He afterwards ‘ found the ball flattened that would otherwise have passed through his heart ’ ; the prayer-book had saved him . |
| 19 | One business that would certainly hope to benefit from any extensive re-equipping of the forces is Royal Ordnance , the subsidiary of British Aerospace that bought the MOD 's factories . |
| 20 | But ‘ at some point in the future ’ , she wants to become again what she is trained to be — a general paediatrician , work that would inevitably involve dealing with child abuse . |
| 21 | They are behind the majority of the dozen new channels that will soon start broadcasting in Latin America . |
| 22 | All that is required is a little local clustering , of a sort that will naturally tend to arise in natural populations . |
| 23 | This is an assumption or misunderstanding that can only have arisen from the curious vagaries of the student grants system in Britain . |
| 24 | This has undoubtedly caused temporary local damage and may well have contributed to the general decline of the shrimp fishery . ’ |
| 25 | At club level , his persistent niggling paid off , but at international level , it often acted as a destabilising influence , and may well have led to the premature departure of Willie Ormond as the national team manager . |
| 26 | He was elected MP for Malmesbury in 1529 , and again in 1547 , and may well have served in intervening Parliaments for which the names of the members for Malmesbury are unknown . |
| 27 | Elena Ceauşescu was not without her own ambitions and may well have agreed to the ( temporary ) sidelining of Nicu after he made some mild protests about the state of the food supply in Sibiu . |
| 28 | Such plans , which could put some software in maintenance mode and some in the morgue , do n't appear to have affected DEC 's flagship database Rdb which is reportedly being rewritten in C for OSF/1 and may also get ported to Windows NT . |
| 29 | Once established , however , the theoretical stage seems to have grown in status and size , and may even have led to a relative decline in the importance and quality of the practical stage . |
| 30 | Several species have what looks to be a cut-water on the keel of the shell and may even have sailed like galleons across the surface of the prehistoric oceans . |