Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb mod] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some faint impressions on the inside of the dermal skeleton suggest that at least paired nasal sacs may have been present ( unlike in modern hagfishes ) . |
| 2 | A full list of gliders which can be towed in included , and the concluding paragraph in the fully detailed glider-tugging section states , ‘ Most of the numerous accidents that have occurred during glider-towing operations could have been avoided if pilots had better known and followed these basic rules of safety ’ . |
| 3 | In fact , the first thing most such hypothetical new European states would do is , almost certainly , apply for admission to the European Community , which would once again limit their sovereign rights , though in a different manner from their previous situation . |
| 4 | The extent of these economic activities must have been constrained by the modes of transport available . |
| 5 | It 's hoped all 500 operations will have been completed within just 6 weeks . |
| 6 | In his long and ultimately successful battle against the latter organization ( a European army in which French , German , and other European units would have been integrated under American command ) de Gaulle developed all his objections to supranationalism . |
| 7 | The art seems to have died out in Crete altogether , yet mysteriously reappeared in Mycenae in the thirteenth century BC ; Sinclair Hood ( 1978 ) has suggested that after the conquest of Minoan Crete by Myceneans , the finest craftsmen may have been taken by force to the mainland and made to work for new masters . |
| 8 | Without an infusion of funds from the DHSS ( now DSS ) , fewer private homes would have been established and many more would have proved to be unprofitable . |
| 9 | In the case of William Black , the political considerations would have been no less difficult to ignore . |
| 10 | Such walls could have been overlooked in the excavation , since their existence was not even suspected , and any surviving traces may have been lost in the extensive stone robbing and disturbance by tree roots ( see excavation report , fig. 4 ) with subsequent soil erosion . |
| 11 | ( Hewitt 1989 : 138 ) But he goes on to say : while such Creole influences may have been more evident and highly focused ( Le Page 1975 ) in the speech of black youngsters , they were by no means restricted to black speakers but were to varying degrees evident also in the speech of white and ethnic minority youth other than Afro-Caribbean from the same localities . |
| 12 | It was suggested in Chapter Four that people who possessed three specific characteristics would have been highly unlikely to remain at home for any length of time . |
| 13 | Much of Hollywood 's mass audience would have been oblivious to this but intelligent and respectable film-goers must have been very aware that society was shaping their film-going . |
| 14 | A marriage between foreign nationals from different countries and of different religions would have been difficult enough in settled times , but it was rendered much more complicated now by the fact that whatever my family 's record might have been with regard to the Fascist party , my mother , my father and I were enemy aliens who had just lost a war . |
| 15 | The pygmies seem to be similar , though some groups may have been forced by warfare into occupying the forests of central Africa . |
| 16 | A large proportion had substantial additionality , although some projects could have been supported by other than public-sector funds , bearing in mind that UDG is supposed to be a last-resort lender . |
| 17 | English copies would have been available in Europe and mention of distribution in the new American Colonies has been made , so it was an internationally known work by the latter part of the eighteenth century . |
| 18 | All morning the world 's top cyclists will have been reconnoitring the course , selecting their gear ratios and the most suitable of their many bikes , looking at the route for the best way through corners , testing the strength and direction of the wind — looking for anything that will give them that little extra in this first trial of strength , which will be clocked in tenths and hundredths of a second . |
| 19 | Nor need this group have been composed of the same households throughout : as the fortunes of different employments fluctuated so different groups could have been included at different times . |
| 20 | No one knows what these carved objects might have been for , so perhaps they were n't for anything , but a heartening prehistoric example of art for art 's sake . |
| 21 | A spokesman admitted some personnel may have been unhappy with a process of ‘ radical ’ change , but insisted : ‘ The vast majority of people would not have recognised the description in that article . ’ |
| 22 | In some cases the overlay will not be completely accurate as the different maps may have been produced at different times by different teams of surveyors . |
| 23 | Some readers may have been shocked that one professor of English should thus refer to another , but these are robust times . |
| 24 | Some readers will have been growing roses for years , others may be starting for the first time from scratch , with no preconceived ideas , pattern or convention to adhere to , and a great many more will be at every stage in between . |
| 25 | The Class 321 units ( of which the first was delivered in September 1988 ) , were an immediate success , but the same can not be said of the Class 442 ‘ Wessex Electrics ’ of which twenty-four five-car units should have been delivered in time for the May 1988 timetable . |
| 26 | Of all continental rulers , the German emperors may have been the ones Cnut was most eager to imitate , for in the second half of his reign he perhaps wished to see his own position in the northern world as emulating theirs in Europe . |
| 27 | There then followed a decline , and the old arts would have been lost , had it not been for the Buddhist monks who kept the arts alive in their mountain refuges . |
| 28 | Considering the number of PFK readers who would like to see their Puffers inflate just once ( though arguably as a sign of stress this is n't such a great idea ) many marine fishkeepers would have been thrilled . |
| 29 | ‘ To have banned him for a few months would have been one thing , but to take him to court and ban him for life seemed to defeat the object of the exercise . ’ |
| 30 | The recommended books might have been borrowed from a fellow student , or bought , or there could have been some alternative reading . |