Example sentences of "[coord] [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instability was greatest at periods of high sedimentation at the onset of deglaciation , when ice sheets reached or may even have extended beyond the shelf break . |
| 2 | Wages that you earn or could reasonably have earned during your notice period will be taken into account when assessing compensation . |
| 3 | Of course the distinction drawn above only remains if we assume that it is possible for us to understand a proposition which we would or could never be justified in believing or could never come to know to be true . |
| 4 | v. We also need to increase the number of Medau classes being taught and if anyone thinks they might like an additional class or is already considering opening one and would like help to promote it , needs an introduction to pave the way with a new Institute , Leisure Centre or other official body or would just like to talk over the possibilities , please get in touch with me — I shall be delighted to hear from you . |
| 5 | This has undoubtedly caused temporary local damage and may well have contributed to the general decline of the shrimp fishery . ’ |
| 6 | At club level , his persistent niggling paid off , but at international level , it often acted as a destabilising influence , and may well have led to the premature departure of Willie Ormond as the national team manager . |
| 7 | He was elected MP for Malmesbury in 1529 , and again in 1547 , and may well have served in intervening Parliaments for which the names of the members for Malmesbury are unknown . |
| 8 | Elena Ceauşescu was not without her own ambitions and may well have agreed to the ( temporary ) sidelining of Nicu after he made some mild protests about the state of the food supply in Sibiu . |
| 9 | Such plans , which could put some software in maintenance mode and some in the morgue , do n't appear to have affected DEC 's flagship database Rdb which is reportedly being rewritten in C for OSF/1 and may also get ported to Windows NT . |
| 10 | Once established , however , the theoretical stage seems to have grown in status and size , and may even have led to a relative decline in the importance and quality of the practical stage . |
| 11 | Several species have what looks to be a cut-water on the keel of the shell and may even have sailed like galleons across the surface of the prehistoric oceans . |
| 12 | Despite the new marriage codes , common-law partnerships also remained popular — and may even have increased in the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | But it is also probably the case that , in molecular biology , the gap between basic research and its application is smaller than in any other field of technology , and may even have shrunk to zero . |
| 14 | A further Holkham drawing is present in ‘ Julius Caesar imposing agrarian law ’ by Ciro Ferri , dated to the 1550s , while an early Salvator Rosa drawing of genre figures has an Odescalchi provenance and may consequently have belonged to Queen Cristina of Sweden . |
| 15 | How far laymen would have disapproved of his behaviour is another matter , for concubinage of a type whereby a married man could also have a relationship with a woman who had a recognised position and whose children might share in the inheritance had been common among Germanic peoples , and may still have existed in England in Cnut 's day . |
| 16 | Public opinion , though skewed to the right on many issues , has not moved further right between 1979 and 1989 , and may actually have moved in a contrary direction . |
| 17 | We report here that long tails with shallow forks are aerodynamically optimal , exhibit correspondingly low sexual dimorphism and may therefore have evolved under natural selection . |
| 18 | The main reason a purchaser will insist on buying assets , and may perhaps refuse to deal with the vendor on any other basis , is that the purchaser can then select which of the vendor 's liabilities he will assume and more importantly which he will leave behind for the vendor to deal with . |
| 19 | The subscription provided an alternative to flattery and must surely have seemed to her the most manageable form of dependence . |
| 20 | She is expected to obey her husband without question and must never appear unveiled to any man to whom she is not related . |
| 21 | Ellis believed that the women 's movement had taken a wrong turn in demanding equality with men in the public sphere and should rather have worked for the elevation of motherhood . |
| 22 | Wallace looked threatening up front , and should really have scored on a few occasions . |
| 23 | Until then Frank had been safe because they had each other , and the things that troubled him were half buried and might well have sunk past danger . |
| 24 | Quite small paranota could also control the attitude of falling insects and might subsequently have increased in size through an additional selective process to improve the angle at which a gliding flight occurred ( Hinton , 1963 ; Flower , 1964 ) . |
| 25 | This has a total of nine teeth set in three rows , and could well have come from a lock fitted to the door of a villa . |
| 26 | Britain 's Jackie Stewart carried on where Clark left off and , had it not been for a decision to retire early , could have dominated the sport longer than he did , and could well have added to his collection of three world titles . |
| 27 | Carl Llewellyn , 26 , was having his third ride in the Grand National and could never have hoped for a better experience around the huge Aintree fences . |
| 28 | Both of these ebullient works testify to the natural world as a paradise : a fact emphasised by the accuracy of the painter , whose easily identifiable plants and birds derive from different seasons and regions and could never have co-existed in reality . |
| 29 | The additional organising effort , however , brought in extra resources of no more than £pound394 , and could hardly have amounted to more than 450 paying members , suggesting a total membership of less than 5,200 . |
| 30 | Police are appealing for witnesses and would also like to speak to anyone who was at the club last night . |