Example sentences of "this [vb mod] [adv] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That figural designs began to occur in the west in any numbers ( i.e. not counting the very early example from Exeter : Bidwell 1979 ) in approximately the same period as a further development of figural design is apparent in the southeast , is an interesting possibility : this may also have been contemporary with the first appearance of fully centralised designs . |
| 2 | Strip examination revealed that this was the result of slight corrosion on the contacts , and the evidence suggested that this may well have been present at the time of the accident . |
| 3 | This may well have been due to the satisfaction he had been deriving from the composition of East Coker , though he made no mention to me of the new poem . |
| 4 | This could well have been true in the past too : we do not know . |
| 5 | She looked at the insignificant scorch marks on its cover and said , ‘ This would n't have been necessary if you had n't been so cagey with me . |
| 6 | The question in this situation is , would the pilot have recognised that this would not have been possible if the aircraft had been 50 feet lower ? |
| 7 | It did not appear appropriate , therefore , to develop one global user requirement for the two departments as implied by the FAOR proposals , and , in any event , this would not have been possible without extensive reorganisation of the filing and reference systems as a whole . |
| 8 | She is quick to point out that this would not have been possible without the help of all the artistes and musicians on the various shows . |
| 9 | The helmet allowed us to have the last few hours of his life together before his airlift to hospital , and this would not have been possible otherwise . |
| 10 | Five years ago this would not have been possible , and it is a measure of the success of the Cleveland Classics series of concerts that a mass audience has been gradually persuaded to sample music of a more controversial stamp than the usual ‘ pops ’ . |
| 11 | Information on varieties of stone was given in the duplicated project booklet which the children received at the start of their work , but with some children this would not have been necessary had the school library resource centre contained suitable information in an easily discovered form . |
| 12 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 13 | As stated above , this would not have been workable . |
| 14 | This would probably have been sufficient to enable the courts to assess the performance as a whole , but the Bill was nevertheless further amended in the House of Lords so that both expressions now appear . |
| 15 | This would hardly have been necessary if at that time they were in a position to dictate the policy and actions of the association . |
| 16 | This can not have been untypical — the late medieval Weald was far from being the empty desert so often described . |