Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] [be] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Pisani 's informative notes with this set supply a good deal more information , revealing an extraordinary story indeed : Eckhardt-Gramatt é's; maiden name had been Friedman , after her mother 's ex-husband , who may not have been her father . |
| 2 | It may or may not have been his home for any length of time , but it is certainly the only survivor of that contemporary period of timbered houses with thatched roofs which frequently caught fire and were eventually forbidden . |
| 3 | It might not have been her place to reveal such a suspicion , but it could help to relieve Juliette 's fears on her brother 's behalf . |
| 4 | Why … you mean … the man who called the other day might not have been his brother after all ? ’ |
| 5 | In that sense , the sectoral approach was already being rejected : ECSC might well have been its end rather than its beginning . |
| 6 | ‘ Cosier , do n't you think ? ’ she said coyly , as she slid into a chair nearest the kitchen door and gave him what he could only assume was her standard come-hither look . |
| 7 | He sounded nervous , but it could just have been his telephone manner . |
| 8 | And it just made me realize how fragile life is and how God has got his hand on you and erm how he protected me from erm being killed in that plane crash because it could easily have been my plane |
| 9 | It could n't have been their pantomime |
| 10 | Could n't have been our paper this morning they 've moved on |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't know the man sitting next to the producer was Dick Lester , who had just directed that film , ’ recalled Crawford ‘ Anyway , I got the part and it certainly could n't have been my charm or personality that did it . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Could n't have been your wife , could it ? ’ |
| 13 | This may well have been the aircraft seen to crash , and although Kennett and Waghorn were credited posthumously with a Ju88 probably destroyed , this could well have been their victim , no Ju88s being reported missing on this date . |
| 14 | So John Emburey was handed the captaincy that could well have been his years earlier if he had not gone to South Africa in 1982 , thereby losing the Middlesex captaincy to Gatting after Mike Brearley retired . |
| 15 | It need n't have been my fare at all . ’ |
| 16 | A buyer , on the other hand , may well be concerned about such sub-contracting , since one of the factors on which he decided to place the contract with the seller may well have been his perception of the seller 's own quality standards and competence to carry out the contract . |
| 17 | But then I told myself that I would only have been his mistress , in a foreign country , and for a short time , until he grew tired of me . |
| 18 | She always had to find fault with everything ; she would n't have been our Mum else . |
| 19 | It ca n't have been my ear . ’ |
| 20 | By his will , made on 1 March 1638 and proved on 11 October 1638 , Langdon left his surveying instruments to his son-in-law , George Darker , who may therefore have been his apprentice or assistant . |