Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] [verb] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Assemblies never approved military intervention in Lebanon ; the small contingent of Libyan troops there was said to consist of volunteers , and the decision as to which of the groups within Lebanon they should support seems to have been reserved to Qaddafi . |
| 2 | Other candidates presented themselves : Brassard must know Miller 's End and he might have come to hate being bullied by Newley ; Yorick blamed Newley for his own failings , and was hysterical enough to kill on impulse ; Henry , having predicted Newley 's death , had a vested interest in ensuring that the prediction was fulfilled ; Zaza might have been seduced by Newley and then spurned |
| 3 | Preston might have preferred to have been called Blackpool , all things considered . |
| 4 | Chant might have applauded had be possessed two workable hands , but the flea 's message of corruption was spreading with agonizing speed . |
| 5 | The study of literature had become little more than a loose aggregate of philosophy , history , psychology , aesthetics , ethnography , sociology , and so on , and the Formalists felt that any specificity it might have had had been swamped by its adjacent disciplines . |
| 6 | And he did train , he actually trained for five years , and instead of holiday he got , and something he 'd like to have done is learnt to compete in the Whitbread Round the World . |
| 7 | To be forty she 'd have had to have been born in the nineteen seventies |
| 8 | Any sense of proportion these two buildings may have had has been ruined by the crudest crazy-paving kind of plasterwork . |
| 9 | The friar just stared at him and concluded that Fitzosbert would have liked to have been born a woman . |
| 10 | It is understood that he would have liked to have been offered the post of Leader of the House . |
| 11 | Brian was also aware of other emergencies and admissions taking place and would have liked to have been told what was happening . |
| 12 | I would have liked to have been told less … abruptly . |
| 13 | Shakespeare must have known someone very like Ralph Edwards when he put Fluellen into Henry V. If Ralph came in on St David 's Day , I would have hidden to avoid being forced to eat a raw leek as was poor ancient Pistol in that play . |
| 14 | This of course was a common point of view but none the less irritating because we were nearly all conscripted at this stage of the war and would have preferred to have been left alone to get on with our nice , comfortable civilian lives in peace . |
| 15 | Few apart from servants and those running retailing shops would have expected to have been employed the whole year through . |
| 16 | It would also have meant higher administrative costs which would have had to have been borne by charge payers . |
| 17 | As there is only one fixing point , this being on the base , it would have had to have been fastened to a stable item , such as furniture . |
| 18 | If SI units had been used results would have had to have been reported by height , age , and sex separately and the sample size would have been too small for useful analysis . |
| 19 | Eventually English Heritage joined with the National Heritage Memorial fund offering to buy the house and asking for no funding from the government ( although possibly in the long term , additional monies would have had to have been found for the running of the house ) . |
| 20 | If each row had been widened , one row would have had to have been removed , meaning the new front seats would have been higher than health and safety rules allowed . |