Example sentences of "[modal v] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might of course have been a more acceptable blue when it was put on because it changes |
| 2 | This may in part have been a political move , for if he was the son of Ealdorman Æthelmær of Wessex , as is usually assumed , he came from a major West Saxon family , and had a brother , Æthelweard , executed by Cnut in 1017 and a brother-in-law ( another Æthelweard ) banished in 1020 . |
| 3 | The gunners claimed two Ju88s shot down , one of which may in fact have been an He111H of 6/KG 26 , which failed to return to base on this date . |
| 4 | There would of course have been no story if the author had not given Ayesha enough of human frailty and caprice to bring about certain changes in the circumstances of her rule over the cannibalistic Amahaggar and her relations with Leo Vincey . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |