Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Relax ’ may only have become a scandal when the BBC in belated confusion ( and in response to teasing video clips ) banned it , but singers Holly Johnson and Paul Rutherford promote an explicitly gay image , and ‘ Two Tribes ’ was a pointed response to nuclear defence policy . |
| 2 | But when you have a situation where youngsters of 12 or 13 — and in some cases even younger — who may only have won a couple of matches , are being offered $500,000 guarantees to sign up with one of the management companies before they are snapped up by one of the rival agents , the potential for long term damage is enormous . ’ |
| 3 | But Mr Lawson and the Bank may only have bought a week for sterling . |
| 4 | Robert Penfold 's advocacy of pulsed controllers for model railways in the April issue should perhaps have contained a motor health warning ! |
| 5 | We should all have received a report from Roger about one or two accidents that have occurred on sites . |
| 6 | It should not have become a synonym for adoption . |
| 7 | I will go on to argue that the finding as to ‘ maleness ’ , though regrettable , should not have precluded a finding that there was a marriage . |
| 8 | He wrote : ‘ But it is when we examine the zoology of these countries that we find what we most require — evidence of a very striking character that these great islands must once have formed a part of the continent , and could only have been separated at a very recent geological epoch . |
| 9 | She hates being photographed and wonders if she should ever have chosen a career in television . |
| 10 | The programme should also have included a Bill to deal with the crisis in our prisons , by implementing at least part of Lord Justice Woolf 's report . |
| 11 | We shall remember Jack Nicklaus shedding the years in 1986 , and spiriting the ball into the hole with a long-bladed putter which must surely have made a fortune for its inventor . |
| 12 | Having expected a casual Italian place , Belinda was a little perturbed to realise that this was L'Epoque , Brisbane 's newest and most talked-about French restaurant , which must surely have required a booking in advance . |
| 13 | Six more contestants we need , the only rule is that you must n't have played a phone-in competition on this programme in the last four weeks . |
| 14 | So if you 'd like to play the game the only rule is that you must n't have played a phone in competition on this programme in the last four weeks . |
| 15 | It was an obvious-looking deception , and should n't have had a hope in hell of working ; but the girls were mostly young and good-looking , and their prey were mostly out-of-towners , and as long as they kept shifting their ground the money kept on coming in . |
| 16 | A lot of people said last year that I should n't have had a factory bike , so I was happy that my early results demonstrated I was worthy of an NSR . |
| 17 | It should n't have mattered a jot what Luke thought of her , but it did . |
| 18 | By the unwritten laws of an unadmitted game , Six should never have sent a war-party into Five 's tribal land without at least telling the Co-ordinator . |
| 19 | ‘ You should never have married a Tory , ’ she said . |
| 20 | The arrival of a new host in the form of the azure-winged magpie must therefore have seemed a godsend to the oft-thwarted cuckoo . |
| 21 | All I can say is , I think they must never have spent a night in The Bar if they think that , or never a good night . |
| 22 | Firstly , a young horse may not have formed a habit of accepting things as they are and automatically always behaving in the same way . |
| 23 | Another Nottingham volunteer , Sue , said , ‘ I may not have lost a lot in pounds but it 's great to know I can lose inches from parts I did n't think I could ever reduce . ’ |
| 24 | But does it matter as when you think that she may not have made a will , because then everything will go to her er next of kin as one says , intestacy rules . |
| 25 | ‘ I gather that your brother may not have made a will ; so what happens now ? ’ |
| 26 | The fact is that we give exceptional leave to remain because it would be inhumane to send some people , such as the Croatian that the hon. Member mentioned , back to their country at this time , even though they may not have made a claim of persecution . |
| 27 | The lack of a licence in Barlow Clowes ' early years may or may not have made a difference to the way investors ' funds were handled during that time . |
| 28 | Food may not have become a weapon , but the failure of Soviet agriculture to meet its peoples ' demands was a wound that contributed to the collapse of Soviet power in the second half of the 1980s . |
| 29 | Turnips and clover , for example , may not have been really widely used until the nineteenth century , and the diffusion of knowledge across the countryside may not have exceeded a mile a year from the points of origin ( Deane 1979 ) . |
| 30 | It makes no difference that the parent may not have wished to go ( during the war ) or may not have had a choice ( death ) . |