Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | But in view of passages in Revelation like 7:3 which speak of ‘ sealing the servants of God in their fore-heads ’ , and Romans 4:11 which speaks of circumcision as ‘ the sign and seal of being in the right with God through faith ’ , it is not impossible that baptism may have been in the apostle 's mind when he spoke of this sealing with the Spirit . |
2 | Now to the house itself , one of the early observers gives us a clue when mentioning the house he writes of the fine Elizabethan chimneys still standing , these I believe are those which collapsed in 1973 after having previously been lowered owing to their dangerous condition , on the collapse of these some fine timber framing was discovered in the older parts of the house showing considerable blackening , and Mrs Lingham informed me that vestiges of a gallery were discovered , and it was suggested that this part of the building may have been of the hall type . |
3 | Ford 's money may have been in evidence , but Ford 's men were not . |
4 | So it 's a bit frightening when you think a pensioner 's money may have been in that account at thirteen fifty on a , on ten thousand invested , and now they 're down to seven hundred . |
5 | The Judge said the gang may have been in a state of panic , but the police were unarmed and it was miracle they were n't seriously injured . |
6 | In many circumstances the service to the University may have been over a period several times the 3 years of undergraduate study . |
7 | She was only twenty when she was saddled with me , yet she never made me feel I was a drag , and heaven knows a kid sister must have been at times . ’ |
8 | I 'm forty-eight this year , me mum must have been in there nearly fifty year . |
9 | Theo 's fears that his brother was on a self-destructive course must have been at least partly eased by this letter . |
10 | However , Honderich himself throws up difficulties with regard to his third point , in that Conservatism must have been at least partly responsible for the ‘ decent ’ society he found when he arrived in Britain thirty years ago . |
11 | The winner must have been beyond price . |
12 | CLEAR SIGNS that a doping ring may have been in operation emerged yesterday when the Jockey Club admitted that Surrey police are investigating the ‘ nobbling ’ of a horse at Yarmouth last August . |
13 | Those who pursue comparisons of the kind I am referring to are likely to be impressed by the staying-power of a literary preoccupation to which a variety of temperaments and compulsions has been attracted , and could well be inclined to believe that Pechorin 's duel and indifference may have been among the precedents that weighed , a century later , with a woman bent on contriving her appointment with destiny . |
14 | WHOEVER judged the inflatable sumo wrestling bout at half-time must have been from the WBO . |
15 | All those lands have water , either acknowledged as lakes , or in winter pools throughout the poor , snipe-grass farmland ; how lovely the light must have been to his eyes . |
16 | ‘ We ca n't be absolutely sure of the sequence of events but the victim was hit from behind and fell against the door leading into the garage , so the killer must have been in the house . |
17 | That unedifying but intriguing little episode must have been round the Lab within minutes of its happening . |
18 | ‘ That 's right , ’ he said , trying to think of why Hasan 's photograph might have been inside the locket . |
19 | In the study by Mattsson et al describing development of enterochromaffin like carcinoids in rats afer longterm hypergastrinaemia caused by partial corpectomy , the plasma gastrin concentration might have been above the minimal concentration necessary to give maximal trophic effect ( supramaximal concentration ) . |
20 | Initially a pitch of a ♯ = 408 was chosen as being close to the Bate Collection 's recorders of the period : at this pitch it sounds fine but one could easily allow that the original use of the instrument might have been at a higher pitch than this . |
21 | After all the sniggering and playing up of our away record , you might have though SOME mention might have been in order ? ? |
22 | A trip to Lombok , the next island along , gives a taste of what Bali might have been like before tourism . |
23 | Nizan could have been under no illusions as to the fate of those who were perceived as traitors to the party . |
24 | Mayer immediately protested the decision , saying the extra width could have been of no possible advantage to Hunt , a view with which I disagreed then and still disagree now , for a sporting rule is a sporting rule . |
25 | The buildings on either side would have been for the slaves and workshops , the bath-house and latrines . |
26 | This was only a modest puff of inflation by subsequent standards : by 1974 the 1950 pound would have been worth only one-third of a pound . |
27 | I dread to think where the pound would have been in the past few days if I had followed the advice of Opposition Members . |
28 | Imagine what the result would have been in Salomon 's case if the company created was one of unlimited liability : all the members would have been personally liable for the debts owned by the company to the creditors . |
29 | The waiter says this man used to live here until 15 years ago , and the bright boats bobbing on the undulating water of the main harbour would have been at his front door . |
30 | The effect would have been to distance even more those living in the territories from the decision-making machinery of the PLO outside . |