Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] be [adj] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , it should have been apparent from an early stage that the railway would prove totally inadequate to deal with the demand generated in the Isle of Dogs , especially by the Canary Wharf project . |
| 2 | There should have been light from above and below , but in fact there was almost none , and it was partly because of that , and because it was also rather colder than it had to be , that Quiss had set off something like an hour before to find some of the castle 's attendants . |
| 3 | ( h ) Excepted defects There is no condition as to merchantability where defects have been drawn to the buyer 's attention before the contract is made , or if the defects should have been obvious from examination . |
| 4 | As to apparatus , saws were evidently effective enough to cut nephrite into the relatively thin sheets from which many archaic jades were made , and bow-drills must have been available from the beginning . |
| 5 | Their contention was that the constable must have a specific fear in mind ; ‘ he must be able to say which pit , which miners and when , ’ and that it must have been clear from the words and deeds of the appellants themselves ( and the others associated with them on the spot ) that a breach of the peace would ensue . |
| 6 | They must have been gregarious from the start . |
| 7 | They have no ‘ implication of utterance ’ : whatever meaning potential they might have is remote from any realization , since the contexts which would provide the occasion for their use are of unlikely occurrence . |
| 8 | During your two years in Paris as Colnaghi 's representative , how much has your presence been of importance to selling as opposed to finding more sources of paintings than might have been possible from the London or New York base ? |
| 9 | ‘ All what moving about the country ? ’ asked Cliff , largely to avert further discussion of sprouts and red cabbage , which he could see was imminent from the suspicious manner in which his mother was turning over the vegetables on her heaped plate . |
| 10 | Yet it is probably fair to suggest that few people could have been immune from the implications of the party struggle at Westminster , since decisions taken by the central government often had a direct affect on ordinary people 's lives , and few people could have avoided being exposed to the political controversies of the day through the various media of propaganda . |
| 11 | Actually , nothing could have been further from the truth . |
| 12 | I thought I would have plenty of other opportunities but nothing could have been further from the truth . |
| 13 | The best England could offer was 51 from Gooch and 49 from Lamb , and just before tea they were all out for 159 . |
| 14 | Clearly their views may have been different from those of the people who died , but respondents are likely to have taken into account the reactions of their relatives and friends , and how these respondents felt about the care in the homes is also of interest and concern . |
| 15 | Our study population may have been different from that examined in other studies in respect of different bowel habits ( less consistent diarrhoea in our patients ) . |
| 16 | This may have had an effect on the conversation : first , in respect of the content , which may have been different from what they would otherwise have talked about , and secondly in that the girls may have tried consciously to use " Jamaican " . |
| 17 | That run/shot would have been impossible from anywhere BUT the centre of the pitch ( he would have been running across goal and also towards defenders . |
| 18 | It is far from clear that the necessary Listed Building Consent for demolition would have been forthcoming from the local authority . |
| 19 | But with the possible exception of the Gaijin family retainers , most of the men following Sipotai would have been reluctant from the start . |
| 20 | And the fact of George Carey 's criticism of massive pay rises to top bosses , and his sermon on the social responsibilities of wealth creation , is of concern to those bosses and wealth ‘ creators ’ because remarks that would have been unexceptional from other quarters came from the head of the established church — a case of the upstart vicar from Barking not yet fully appreciating the nature of his role within the establishment to which he has only recently secured entry . |
| 21 | So far as the avoidance of an election commitment was concerned , this would have been sensible from any point of view . |
| 22 | on the date of import into the United Kingdom the car which was the subject of the total loss settlement would have been exempt from value added tax and car tax |
| 23 | This would have been exempt from income tax under s188 and could have been used by the director to repay his loan . |
| 24 | Sir Peter justified his call for openness in terms which would have been unthinkable from his immediate predecessor , Sir Kenneth Newman , and indeed from any predecessor : ‘ Professions , including police , tend by definition to be monopolists of knowledge and through that knowledge , power . |
| 25 | In encouraging scholars to attend his palace , Charlemagne allowed a freedom of speech which would have been unthinkable from other men . |
| 26 | Because Marx never did write this anthropological work , it is futile to speculate too much on how his position would have been different from that of Engels . |
| 27 | But little is known about the chemical ‘ soup ’ of the oceans , and therefore the type of life that first became selected and concentrated there and which would have been different from that occurring , say , in rivers or stagnant pools . |
| 28 | As will have been apparent from the discussion on pre-emptive rights , this borrowing by the stock markets of an expression ‘ equities ’ derived from the activities of Courts of Chancery has in turn been borrowed by the companies ' legislation in its definition of ‘ equity securities ’ and ‘ equity share capital . ’ |
| 29 | All parties will have been aware from the inception of the management buy-out that the investor would seek to realise its investment as soon after the buy-out as an appropriate return on investment could be achieved . |