Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [vb mod] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well if it came over his house th oh of course , next to the that will have been empty for a few years so |
| 2 | But for this timely find , Dundee School for the Deaf would have been blown to pieces , along with the Deaf Centre . |
| 3 | The American Communist Party at its peak in the Thirties might have been 100,000 strong and dominated several labour unions . |
| 4 | But the English would have been worse . ’ |
| 5 | Thus , when in 1010 the English should have been engaging the enemy , ferde seo fyrde ham — the army went home . |
| 6 | there is some potential for testing consistency of marking — it is a big worry to most of us , when marking a hundred different pieces of coursework , that the hundredth might have been marked to a different standard to the first . |
| 7 | The American archives suggest that even in 1954 the British would have been somewhat reassured had they been able to eavesdrop on some of the discussions which were taking place in Washington . |
| 8 | Even so , the French might have been able to pull through had the great motivator , Jacques Fouroux , been around . |
| 9 | Alternatively , it may be suggested that the question was how much the French should have been asked to concede ; and even if the critical time , ( according to Edmund Gullion , ) was ‘ right after the Elysee agreements of March 1949 ’ and for all the complaint that ‘ South-East Asia 's policy has been junked ’ , and dismay at Acheson 's ‘ French captivity , a closer inspection suggests that there may not in fact have been all that much difference in the assumptions upon which different parts of the State Department were operating . |
| 10 | Their impact on the marine communities of the Ordovician must have been profound . |
| 11 | The enthusiasm for canal stock in the 1790s may have been the greater because the yield on Consols had not been very gratifying between 1784 and 1792 . |
| 12 | The court said obiter that the accused would have been guilty even if the police had shot dead an innocent bystander , though the actual victim was innocent too . |
| 13 | The accused must have been party to the act which caused death , the law states . |
| 14 | The court considered that the accused should have been convicted of obtaining property by deception . |
| 15 | Jones & Smith may be inconsistent with Collins , where the accused could have been held to be a trespasser because he exceeded his permission to enter . |
| 16 | The second could have been that whoever ordered the manuscript took seriously Rameau 's silly claim that the keyboard part was self-sufficient and that no one hearing a solo performance of this music would guess that anything was missing . |
| 17 | The T.R. may have been unique in having tickets priced in farthings . |
| 18 | The first thing the three must do is disentangle themselves from the past . |
| 19 | According to aviation officials the A-300 should have been 1,500 feet higher at the point where it crashed into a jagged mountain face . |
| 20 | The growing importance of trade unions in the 1860s registered this , the very existence — not to mention the strength — of the International would have been impossible without it . |
| 21 | This increase is particularly impressive since the decline in marriage rates in the 1970s would have been expected to reduce household formation among young people , since historically young married couples have tended to set up their own households , and young single people to remain with their parents . |
| 22 | In the defence of Verdun , it will be recalled , de Castelnau had already rendered an invaluable service in the ‘ Intermediary Line ’ , hastily constructed as a result of his coup d'oeil in January , and — had there been time for the completion of the Third Position that he had also prescribed then — there seems a chance that the German breakthrough on the 24th might have been prevented altogether . |
| 23 | The former query , until recently , would have been classified in the ‘ Housing , property and land ’ section while the latter would have been classified as a ‘ Social security ’ enquiry . |
| 24 | For instance , if the working class parties of pre-fascist Germany had really represented the class itself , the latter would have been more easily aroused than it in fact was , and the rise of fascism would at least have been a greater struggle . |
| 25 | If another hundred of Caraher 's non-transferable votes had been transferable first to Hendron and then to Magee the latter would have been elected in place of Burns . |
| 26 | Having now documented Louis 's address and instrument business near the Pont Marie Therese for the years 1691,1692 and 1712 , while the other Louis lived on the rue Marmousets and evidently worked in his brother Nicolas 's atelier ( according to common practice , he would have used his brother 's stamp ) , we can conclude that the former made instruments stamped ‘ L/Hotteterre ’ with a fleur-de-lis above , whereas instruments by the latter would have been made in the workshop of Nicolas Hotteterre and stamped ‘ N/Hotteterre ’ with a six-pointed star above . |
| 27 | Well , the latter must have been a useful accomplishment in MI6 , likewise , fleetness of foot — he won a school race in 1950 . |
| 28 | The former rather than the latter could have been true of Brihtheah of Worcester , whose family was that of Archbishop Wulfstan of York and Worcester , but whose kins-men lived in Berkshire , while if Symeon of Durham 's account of the election of Bishop Edmund is correct , Cnut simply confirmed a choice made in Durham . |
| 29 | The Chinese may have been cavalierly treated since then . |
| 30 | The main form of application which the haulier must complete is known as a GV 79 . |