Example sentences of "[modal v] in [adj] [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | More important , he set about gathering the Wordsworths into the Quantock fold , hastening a visit which must in any case have been intended for the near future . |
| 2 | With one part of his mind he logged the fact that Mum had understood the worst immediately and must in some way have been expecting it . |
| 3 | Although this policy may have been viewed as a ‘ reasonable ’ intervention in the free market for private housing , there might in any case have been problems of enforcement of restrictions on resale . |
| 4 | The real objection to the use of the statement may in any event have been that it was self-serving rather than that it was protected by privilege , which could have been waived by the defendant . |
| 5 | Clearly , if a communist revolution was to take place in a country like Russia , the historical stage marked by capitalism would in great part have been skipped . |
| 6 | Although it has no bearing on our decision , it should be pointed out that had the courts had power to make the order sought , Dr. Hayes ' evidence would in any event have been circumscribed by two public interest immunity certificates issued on 13 April 1992 respectively by the Secretary of State for Transport relating to ‘ security measures ’ and by the Lord Advocate in relation to potential criminal proceedings in Scotland . |
| 7 | Both the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords held that damages should have been assessed on the basis of the known fact that the plaintiff would in any event have been totally incapable of work as a result of spinal disease from 1976 . |
| 8 | So it is that tomorrow , ITV will screen a profile of the man who spent the first eight years of his life in Abyssinia ( now Ethiopia ) and graduated to serious eccentricity via an English prep school ( where he was beaten ) , Eton ( where he learned to box ) and finally Oxford ( where he was a boxing blue and acquired the dramatically-bent nose which for six decades has lent drama to what would in any case have been a distinguished face ) . |
| 9 | But Tom Poole 's cousins at Marshmills were not invited , and would in any case have been horrified to find themselves among this conclave of radicals . |
| 10 | In Rutland the tenant to a small proprietor is mentioned here and there , while larger landowners would in any case have been landlords . |
| 11 | The reclaiming of the trade by the men was nevertheless to become a permanent reality , as an editorial in The Vote had correctly predicted.73 It is possible that if the war had not intervened , the men would in any case have been able to secure the prolonging of the ban on women beyond June 1916 . |
| 12 | In this case the BUT NOT condition was not fulfilled , but would in any case have been overridden by the UNLESS . |
| 13 | It is interesting to note , however , that US Ambassador Bonsal argues that the suspension of the sugar quota was not linked solely to the intervention in the oil refineries , but would in any case have been ‘ a major element in the programme for the overthrow of Castro ’ ( Bonsal : 1971 , p. 151 ) . |