Example sentences of "[det] [pron] [vb past] [modal v] " in BNC.

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1 And something like that I thought would have been a very good solution .
2 This we suggested could be handled by a locally-based Task Force which would plan and co-ordinate development .
3 This it estimated would cost between £120 million and £225 million because it would need major civil engineering works .
4 All of this it seemed might make the Prince less unacceptable to France and so would give the candidacy an air of reasonableness to the rest of Europe .
5 This he hoped would enforce freedom of the seas and promote freedom of international trade .
6 This he believed would meet the political need without incurring the cost of building up a new fleet of surface ships and perpetrating the military nonsense of mixed manning .
7 In the 1620s the Danish ambassador in London , representing a monarch , refused to pay a courtesy call on his Savoyard colleague ; this he felt would be demeaning in view of the difference in rank between their principals .
8 However , he did not discount the possibility that larger agitations based on ‘ racial consciousness ’ might arise , and these he felt could only be forestalled by making appropriate changes in the structure of administration .
9 But if we look at the air conditioning explanations we we reckon that the conditions likely to lead to sickness and , and the related illnesses that were mentioned er was , the low humidity that that we thought might er , be in the area erm , because it dries out the and enables viruses to enter the body more more easily .
10 Which for all I knew might have no end
11 Within two years Cromwell , in the name of the King , ordered that the Great Bible be provided in every parish church in the land , so that all who wished might come and read it .
12 This , he told Meese in his interview on November 23rd 1986 , was something above all he hoped could be kept secret ; this , Poindexter had told him , ‘ had better never come out . ’
13 Thiercelin 's misgivings soon resolved into the sick certainty of a failure which for all he knew could already have cost another life .
14 It should transpire that twice a week those who cared could learn to cook ; but apparently Millie herself was to be given no choice ; she was sent , with another five girls , to the kitchen at three o'clock and , there , came under the influence of Sister Cecilia , to whom God had given a nice nature and a light pair of hands with pastry .
15 Though one might think that all those who left must have been in agreement with the National Socialist ideology , there appear to have been artists of all persuasions who remained members .
16 At our conference in November we had a roll call of five hundred and six G M B members who 'd ha who were either killed in work or had died from work-related disease since May nineteen seventy nine those who attended may recall the emotional er
17 Meanwhile , the parents of those who died wo n't be deterred from leaving toys by their children 's graves .
18 Last week a government report said that if the A T F had arrested Koresh in town , all the mayhem that followed need never of happened and those who died might still have been alive .
19 Those who did n't are responding by pointing out that some of those who did ought to have stood as candidates if they wanted a real revolt .
20 This view left room for considerable differences of opinion as to the means by which the labouring poor should be encouraged to work — by coercion or persuasion ; as to the degree to which those who worked could provide for all their needs , such as their children 's education , housing , sickness , old age , widowhood , or required support from the state in some or all of these circumstances ; and as to the degree of culpability of those who did not provide for themselves .
21 Before the 1970s , one reason why wife battering was not perceived as a social problem was because it was argued that those who suffered it could leave and those who stayed could not be suffering .
22 This was done from affection or duty or in the certain knowledge that those who helped would someday need similar help themselves — as a form of insurance .
23 Little wonder , in a sense , that so many children died in early infancy , or that those who survived would have built up a set of antibodies we might well envy .
24 If the ‘ yes ’ votes and the abstentions add up to 50 per cent or more of those eligible to vote , then all those who voted ‘ yes ’ and all those who abstained will become tenants of the new landlord , their tenancies changing from secure to assured .
25 Those who remained can only hope that Mr Serrano , while snuffing out democracy , will at least control the soldiers .
26 Servicemen would have to swear an oath of loyalty to the people of Ukraine by Jan. 20 , and those who refused would transfer to another state of the CIS .
27 All those we interviewed could n't speak too highly of him ’ .
28 He may well have lost customers ; and even those he retained would no doubt have been despondent if not positively angry at what they were having to pay .
29 I could send you a list of vacancies , and mark any I thought might suit Mrs Ross and which I could vouch for .
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