Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb mod] [vb infin] be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the lawns had been restored , like emerald carpets unrolled before his eyes ; sunblasted trees which might have been thought dead had miraculously clothed themselves with leaves . |
| 2 | It will have been noted that , not content with imposing upon themselves the task of ruling through the tendering of advice , which might have been thought difficult enough , the British took upon themselves in Northern Nigeria the even more difficult task of ruling without actually appearing to rule at all — an undertaking whose very absurdity only emphasizes its interest . |
| 3 | The implicit monarchical themes may also have their own republican counterparts , which could have been made explicit in further contexts . |
| 4 | The " vulgar tongue " abounded with colloquialisms suggesting that a particular term conferred a legitimacy which would have been made questionable by a more generalised synonym for stealing . |
| 5 | Such costs compare with many tens of billions of dollars a year saved in wages and productivity which would have been lost due to sickness caused by air pollution and for the annual benefits ( reduced medical treatment ; less damage to buildings , crops and forests ) to the nation as a whole of a less polluted society . |
| 6 | It is shown that there was very often little to be gained from approaching government institutions with attitudes which would have been considered proper by British administrators . |
| 7 | Family planning was in the air ; newspapers and women 's magazines were openly discussing family planning by the 1930s in a manner which would have been considered outrageous just ten years before . |
| 8 | The violent , dangerous and delinquent youth of the magistrates and NAS were also present in the statements of individual Chief Constables and representatives of the Police Federation who articulated publicly their own theories on the causes of crime in a manner which would have been thought unthinkable a few years previously . |
| 9 | Not only did his broadsides provide the only small check there was against wholesale malai excesses , they alerted the population to what would have been kept secret . |