Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had remained her strong English self , and in truth she did put up with a good deal for in her terms a scholar 's life must always have stood for a life of privation , which would explain the furious resolve that clenched the lines in her face . |
| 2 | But as well as all the companies — and there is a host of Cambex Corps and IPL Systems Incs just under the tall poppies of the IBM marketplace , there are thousands and thousands of individuals who must now feel devalued in a deeply demoralising way , people that have made it their life 's work to understand everything there is to know and understand about IBM and its mainframe products , who now find that all that hard-won knowledge is a rapidly wasting asset — not just industry commentators and pundits who will soon find that the market ca n't bear any more ‘ Into the Big Blue Yonder : the Decline and Fall of an American Icon ’ books , but an unsung army of data processing managers who now feel they are too old to start again and learn something new and fundamentally different virtually from scratch , and will instead sink back into the anonymity of early retirement . |
| 3 | Wallace looked threatening up front , and should really have scored on a few occasions . |
| 4 | Science and technology must surely have progressed in a different way if these principles had been embraced from the start . |
| 5 | By this stage , you may already have booked into a dog training class . |
| 6 | If he had not had this picture in his mind , he might inadvertently have written in a way that tried to satisfy different types of individual in the same book . |
| 7 | After a lousy annual meeting and a lousy result against Crystal Palace , Alex Ferguson might reasonably have hoped for a change of fortune . |
| 8 | They might even have belonged to a child . |
| 9 | If the money had been spent on social and industrial problems then the American economy might well have grown at a higher rate than it has , and technological innovation might have been more rapid in areas which directly contribute to trade . |
| 10 | Jan Fischer produced a transporter that might well have come from a professional machine shop . |
| 11 | Jonathan Aitken escaped the total destruction of his career , which might well have resulted from a conviction . |
| 12 | It seems possible to suggest that for a sultan already disposed toward examining and reorganizing the institutions of state , pride in his newly-built medreses , as well as simply the fact of their existence , might well have acted as a strong spur to him to impose some sort of order upon and , implicitly , control over-the learned institution . |
| 13 | Early in 1971 Waddell was found guilty of committing perjury at Meehan 's trial and in sentencing him to three years ' imprisonment Lord Cameron suggested that had he told the truth there , the Meehan jury might well have arrived at a different verdict . |
| 14 | Social workers were given specific help in identifying their function to find ways to keep old people at home who might otherwise have gone into a residential home . |
| 15 | The largest so far identified lies west of Ryknild Street , emphasizing the fact that the road may once have acted as a settlement boundary . |
| 16 | It may possibly have begun as a baptistry or succeeded a cult centre at the spring head . |
| 17 | ( 7 ) Organisations such as the Consumers ' Association , the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents and television programmes such as Watchdog may possibly have dealt with a similar problem to yours in the past . |
| 18 | Modern science could only have come from a belief that there was a God who had made all things to a certain design . |
| 19 | She could only have driven about a mile , she estimated , but as she trudged back along the road it seemed like a marathon trek . |
| 20 | He could scarcely have packed into a single letter more matter offensive to the ideals of the reformed papacy . |
| 21 | It could scarcely have come at a worse time . |
| 22 | His return to Eaton Park could scarcely have come at a more opportune moment considering that Gordon Hamilton , Stuart Laing , Norman Robson and Davy Nicholl have all moved on during the close season . |
| 23 | They could easily have waited for a few days . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ My lord , ’ he said , restraining what could easily have blossomed into a glow of triumph , ‘ even a layman may be inspired to speak prophecy . |
| 25 | He used his pace and aerial strength and created some chances , one of his passed could easily have resulted in a goal . |
| 26 | Captain Montgomery was a tall , burly character with a jutting black beard , white teeth , a slightly hooked nose and humorous eyes and , in spite of the immaculately cut uniform and four golden rings on either cuff , could easily have passed for a well-to-do and genial eighteenth-century Caribbean pirate . |
| 27 | The decade could hardly have ended on a more optimistic note . |
| 28 | The ten-week India campaign could hardly have started on a worse personal note when it was announced , just as England flew in on 29 December that his marriage was over . |
| 29 | For the CEGB , trying to sell nuclear reliability to an increasingly sceptical local population , this could hardly have come at a worse time . |
| 30 | In addition , divided catalogues or separate classified catalogues could also have acted as a deterrent to subject searching . |