Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [vb pp] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he should not have said is that he was pleased to join Blackburn 'cos they were going places , implying he did n't think Leeds were going to have any more success . |
| 2 | What they may not have realised is that that message conveyed itself to the American public ! |
| 3 | What he will not have overlooked is that Churchill — for 10 years ( between 1929 and 1939 ) , the only comparable ‘ outsider ’ within the Tory Party — did not vault straight into the prime ministership . |
| 4 | Proving ignorance of facts that one might or might not have known is impossible , unless one has been in a well-documented coma . |
| 5 | I would argue though that publication of such material when other writers could not get published is an indication of the bounds of the acceptable in public debate . |
| 6 | But any fat the Region may once have had is long gone . |
| 7 | However , the proof most of you would probably have given is : If x = y then x2 = y2 ( 2 ) , a contradiction . |
| 8 | What he would n't have done is gone out and bought the girl loads of flowers the next morning and then get caught by me doing it . |
| 9 | Which I would n't have thought is extortionate in this day and age . |
| 10 | Yes that seems to me to fit that sort of bill , erm to be quite honest I would prefer that we base the promises on a previous paper that T six six one , er you know , sort of er typical success of the fact looking forward cos at least erm that 's not so erm , you know , sort of difficult to erm you know achieve as erm sort of repairing potholes within , when you consider that the reason that the potholes do n't get mended is because government legislation has it that we have to actually erm have lines painted all round them , so that they can be part of the package of er road mending in many cases , I mean urgently erm difficult ones are not that common er so I think that perhaps some of these promises are so difficult because it gives with one hand and takes back with the other , you know , it says we promise , but , I , I would say that 's not much of a promise , you say I promise to erm , you know , erm merge , I forgot about , but if it said but , you know , if it rains I wo n't tell you , er it would be very sad |
| 11 | By spending money on the unemployed , the old , and the poor ( who in the UK are entitled to supplementary benefit if their total income from whatever source falls below a certain minimum level ) , the government seeks to ensure that the distribution of income and welfare that a totally free market economy would otherwise have produced is at least truncated : there is a minimum standard of living below which no citizen should fall . |