Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb mod] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , they say that remarks that they would feel were friendly remarks directed towards students they stop themselves from saying and examine and think if I say that will I make her feel uncomfortable ? |
| 2 | Aung San and his supporters were demanding full independence , but I happened to know that they would have been content , possibly even pleased , to be granted Dominion status . |
| 3 | Previously , my close relationships would have been with people where we would perhaps be living together or just lovers , but they would have been quite explicit that they would have been non-monogamous . |
| 4 | Even if intellectuals outside the government had been agreed on the way forward , it is unlikely that they would have been successful in generating widespread enthusiasm for their opinions . |
| 5 | What remains is regret , a persistent idea that they might have been happy in the homeplace , if only they could have survived there . |
| 6 | Other dinosaurs , namely the duckbilled hadrosaurs — herbivorous versions of T. Rex — were found with fossilized ribs that frequently revealed healed breaks , hinting that they may have been involved in fights or in ritualized trials of strength in which their massive hind feet were used . |
| 7 | In Nigeria , saplings occupied by Pachysima aethiops have more leaves and branches and less attack than those without but , because the few larger workers have a ferocious sting and the habit of dropping from the crown , it is suggested that they may have been effective against large browsing mammals too ; the ants also attack nearby plants and keep the host 's leaves clear of debris and epiphyllae . |
| 8 | Although the nature of the vagotomies surveyes in these reports is not stated , the follow up period is such that they must have been truncal vagotomies . |
| 9 | Whether this pattern of usage of solicitors is evidence of a restricted perception of the sorts of matters with which solicitors deal or of a failure of people to approach solicitors knowing that they could help is unclear . |
| 10 | Finally , probably the most decisive factor of all is whether both parties were properly advised legally , and equally skilled technically and commercially , so that they should have been capable of adequately assessing the risks and rewards they were undertaking in the transactions and of producing a contract document which properly reflected this . |
| 11 | All the Duchamp brothers were at this time passionately interested in mathematics ; Jacques Villon was engaged in reading Leonardo 's Trattato della Pittura , while Marcel Duchamp was a close friend of an amateur mathematician named Maurice Princet , so that it is not surprising that they should have been responsible for introducing a more scientific note into Cubist discussions . |
| 12 | The rain put an end to their chances of a walk — not that they 'd have been likely to spot a deer anyway , after the noise made by the horn and the gun . |
| 13 | And and they would have been ideal you |
| 14 | It would not , they say , have abolished competition : his ‘ Grand Lodges ’ , each directing its own industry , would in effect have been the head offices of huge joint stock companies owning the entire means of production and subject to no control by the community ; and they would have been able to revert to the capitalist form of enterprise , admitting fresh generations of workers only as employees and not as shareholders ‘ thus creating at one stroke a new capitalist class and a new proletariat ’ . |
| 15 | Little was known about bacteria and viral infections , and they must have been hard to avoid without knowledge of modern hygiene standards , let alone the benefits of refrigeration and freezers . |
| 16 | Some of these straight orthocone nautiloids achieve considerable dimensions , several metres long , and they must have been formidable predators on the other marine animals of the time . |
| 17 | We all make mistakes — try and learn from yours and they will have been worthwhile . |
| 18 | The goal certainly gave the home side a lift and they could have been level a minute later . |
| 19 | They were testing our responses and they 'd have been disappointed if we had n't been there . |
| 20 | Recently he had begun to suspect they would like him to leave and , if they could have been sure of finding a substitute fourth , would have asked him to do so . |
| 21 | Most often the support band are terrible , but they could have been great and they could have been you . |
| 22 | What types of boats were used is hard to conceive , but they must have been small and of shallow draught . |
| 23 | Perhaps they were justified in recalling early days in makeshift cinemas and perhaps they had to mingle with the masses as they went in search of Chaplin movies , but they must have been aware that prestigious down-town and suburban theatres were now largely being patronized , not exclusively by a lumpenproletariat , but rather by a mix of social classes and perhaps above all by young people who were moving up the social scale into more respectable occupations . |
| 24 | How would you get them into the boat , because they must have been heavy ? |
| 25 | But there is a problem : the astrologers of the ancient world were certainly au fait with the behaviour of the planets and so , while they might have been excited by the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn , they would not necessarily have regarded it as too desperately important . |
| 26 | The terms of buyers and sellers are likely to contain very different provisions , since they will have been prepared to protect the interests of the particular business . |
| 27 | Single people , whether celibate or not , may also be plagued by doubts as to whether they would have been capable of sustaining a relationship in marriage . |
| 28 | It is doubtful whether they would have been able to afford the elaborate system which replaced this piecemeal amateur effort , and in any case they were spared the necessity of any expenditure since the Empress Elizabeth seized their assets in 1747 , just as plans were in hand to construct the new line . |
| 29 | The lenders , whose objects were left in embarrassing limbo when the show made museum history and went bankrupt a month early , may have asked themselves whether they would have been prepared to lend had it not been held at the V&A , and , in fact , it was the V&A which was left with the unbudgeted task of getting the exhibits back to the owners . |
| 30 | The ash is a classic example of a tree which holds on to its fruits well into the next season even though they may have been ripe since October . |