Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] [adv] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The RCM held that , if the parents of refugee children had discouraged them from religious practices , their temporary guardians should not presume to treat them differently . |
| 2 | Some readers may therefore have identified them as the police officers referred to in our article of May 13 , 1986 . |
| 3 | Rosa 's susceptibilities could n't have worried him overmuch where Didi was concerned , Luce thought waspishly . |
| 4 | The owner said that the reference to a non-legal expert was inappropriate to a dispute about legal liability , and that despite the express words in the disputes clause in the contract , the parties could never have intended it . |
| 5 | The rampant inflation that followed Henry VIII 's currency speculations and which his successors could hardly limit hit them most of all . |
| 6 | The North Koreans ca n't afford to open it . |
| 7 | Perhaps the shock is severe enough to catapult the person into feeling all the pain and extremity of loss that their defences might not have let them do if they had had more time to get organized . |
| 8 | Slater glanced at Graham , " Sara and I were next-door neighbours for a while , I do believe our parents may even have intended us for each other at one time , without actually saying anything about it , of course . " |
| 9 | My parents could only afford to give me some small change on Sundays , but it was enough for a cinema ticket and an ice cream . |
| 10 | In free as well as in pauper apprenticeship corporal punishment was allowed within reason , and the treatment of the " chimney boys " was as notorious as that of the factory children , for in both cases youngsters were being consigned to labour in conditions in which few parents would willingly have placed them . |
| 11 | Prof Spitz , Nuffield professor of paediatric surgery , added : ‘ We would never have started the operation if we thought one was n't going to survive , and the parents would never have wanted it . ’ |
| 12 | Instead , European buyers could pay some $23m more than the $200m their chips would probably have cost them if the market had been left to itself . |
| 13 | Nimbus says that when the superscalars become available , cloners will simply have to swap them for the Cypress part . |
| 14 | Although the Social Charter as signed on 9 December 1989 by all the Heads of State of the EC , excluding the UK , is of no legal effect , UK companies can not afford to ignore it . |
| 15 | But even if that were the case — and the experience of the past 12 years , with an increase in police strength being matched by an increase in reported crime , casts some doubt on it — the authorities could not afford to apply it because of their limited resources . |
| 16 | She would n't let him see that he had hurt her in a way that Harry Martin and all his tricks could never have hurt her . |
| 17 | But because of the severity of the accident , the seats would not have protected them . |
| 18 | These were the only wickets Martin took in the match , but his allround contributions would probably have earned him the Man of the Match award had such been on offer in those days . |
| 19 | Swindle was too crude , for if the plan worked , no one would lose a penny ; all that would have happened was that a few banks would inadvertently have lent them money for an undefined period . |
| 20 | Another mystery is how the yacht drifted north-west when prevailing conditions would normally have sent it towards South America . |
| 21 | Even had they wanted to , the producers would not have accepted them . |
| 22 | Certainly from what I 've heard , things would never have happened the way they did , and I think from the sort of very short dealings I had with him , things would n't have happened they way they did . |
| 23 | Some of the water in very deep aquifers may not have entered them as rain . |
| 24 | I think a lot of er a lot of wives may not have given you as much information as Maggie did . |
| 25 | The partners could then decide to sell it and divide the cash or they could decide to continue to the next stage of association ( called al-nusf , ‘ halves ’ ) . |
| 26 | Had All Souls been lost , the Church authorities would undoubtedly have used it as a precedent for arguing that there were some churches which , however important , were simply too difficult or expensive to save . |
| 27 | Military and political commanders would normally decide to use them only when a war in Europe was in full swing . |
| 28 | He said he knew the tablets would not have harmed him and admitted that he had taken them to make his wife see how much he needed her . |
| 29 | He took the boy 's small , still limp body in his arms , and wept with a passion of which his business associates would not have believed him capable . |
| 30 | The editor of The Times would not have hosted it ten , maybe even five , years ago . |