Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been suggested that they were all Lutheran , but really there is no reason why they should not have been a mix Lutheran , possibly Calvinist , and Roman Catholic . |
| 2 | As retail centres they would probably have been a success , but they threatened existing centres and the needs of non-car owners : ‘ these and other proposals were greeted with hostility by planners and rejected largely on impact grounds ’ ( Schiller , 1986 , 13 ) . |
| 3 | They would n't have been an embarrassment to have around . |
| 4 | There is a suggestion that farmers were inclined to discriminate in favour of married labourers , since they would otherwise have been a greater burden on the parish rate of which the farmers were the main payers . |
| 5 | ( But it has recently been pointed out that occasional use of these as cavalrymen means they can not have been a wholly depressed class . ) |
| 6 | Whether executive emoluments in the major nationalized industries increasingly move apart from each other or not , one feature they can not incorporate is a direct stake in the firm itself . |