Example sentences of "[det] [modal v] [verb] [be] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may have been partly because iron hulls resisted the vibration of the early engines better than wooden ones and also because fouling was less of a problem with continuous speeds and shorter voyages . |
| 2 | But this may have been more than just a sartorial sign of the changing times . |
| 3 | An understanding of this should have been well and truly introduced into the minds of children by the time they are old enough to play such games as those which simulate parental behaviour . |
| 4 | That would have been rather But I come out here but I can not see you know you can just just get them I seen some in that |
| 5 | This was done without the knowledge of Napoleon III , who was astonished by the amount and , interestingly , remarked that ‘ half of that would have been more than enough ’ . |
| 6 | I asked if she remembered Old Red , and described meeting him in the subway , but not his current reputation , for that would have been less than tactful , as I hoped one day to marry them off , and unfair , since he had been so pleasant to me . |