Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [adj] [modal v] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | UNITA maintained that this could be done only if there were a reciprocal withdrawal by government troops , and if the process were supervised by the UN . |
| 2 | The entire programme was due to be finished by April 1997 , but most experts doubted that this would be achieved . |
| 3 | Importing jute from India , its merchants found that this could be mixed with whale oil to provide hard-wearing coarse fabric . |
| 4 | Brian opened his mouth to tell his wife she was a liar and then realized that that would be too strong . |
| 5 | She looked at the sergeant and the private , and realized that these must be two of the Marines the Doctor had talked about . |
| 6 | ‘ Yeah , ’ Boyd said listlessly , and then , with more animation , as he realized that this might be a good moment to break his news to his family , he added : ‘ Yeah , I did . ’ |
| 7 | Within seconds of the stalls going up , she realized that this would be a problem . |
| 8 | But of course I realized that this would be a pretty gratuitous move , under the circumstances . |
| 9 | The therapist suggested this to Pamela , who agreed that this might be so . |
| 10 | David had originally made a demo with John Hutchinson , a demo which had been taken to Philips who were releasing in this country for Mercury Records in America , and they all agreed that this would be the first single under that contract . ’ |
| 11 | The 1989–90 Committee recommended that this should be provided at the earliest opportunity , as an adjunct to the permanent televising of the House . |
| 12 | Following protests from the USA , Australia and New Zealand about South Korea 's beef import quotas , GATT ruled that these should be replaced by tariffs by 1992 . |
| 13 | Fabia was seated beside Ven in a taxi when she realised that furious would be an understatement for what Ven would be if he ever learned that she had not only deceived him but , to add insult to injury , allowed him , believing her to be someone else , to house her and feed her into the bargain . |
| 14 | Two slender arms extended towards her and Martha realised that this must be her mother . |
| 15 | These competing claims usually emerged as community-centred , subject-centred and child-centred curricula , but the report argued that these could be reconciled . |
| 16 | The regional CBI believed that that would be of great benefit and was grateful for my right hon. Friend 's measures to alleviate the uniform business rate . |
| 17 | Father dismissed all this as typical South American ferment , and believed that all would be well as long as we sang a hymn before breakfast . |
| 18 | Even those who thought military sanctions might be necessary believed that this would be limited to using the Royal Navy to close the Suez Canal to the Italians . |
| 19 | Mr. Collins recognised that this could be so , but said that a least there must be a duty to consider whether time admits of the receipt of representations and in this case there was no such consideration by Lautro . |
| 20 | Mr. Collins recognised that this could be so , but said that at least there must be a duty to consider whether time admits of the receipt of representations and in this case there was no such consideration by Lautro . |
| 21 | ( He advised that this should be done soon , because the wall was badly soaked , and they were asking for dry rot . ) |
| 22 | According to Le Monde of Nov. 22 the number of asylum seekers ( who came especially from eastern Europe ) had risen to 1,700 per month , and a new law to speed the processing of asylum applications stipulated that these should be processed within two months , after which an applicant recognized as a refugee could take up provisional residence while waiting for a definitive decision . |
| 23 | However , in December the government achieved a breakthrough in its protracted campaign to trace and retrieve the huge sums believed to have been looted from the country by the Marcos family , when the Swiss Supreme Court ruled that funds held by the family in Swiss bank accounts should be returned to the government of the Philippines , but stipulated that this could be done only after a Philippines ' court had ruled against Marcos [ see p. 37961 ] . |
| 24 | Yet it was hard to imagine a burglar visiting the rue de Sèvres : I rather imagined that this would be where he lived . |
| 25 | Gradually it dried and more would be added until the eyelashes were laden . |
| 26 | A member of a local branch of the union claimed that this could be viewed as a ‘ rolled up ’ ballot question , and applied for the Commissioner 's assistance . |
| 27 | Having noted that the suicide rate is markedly higher in Denmark than in England , Atkinson and his colleagues hypothesized that this might be the result of different procedures for certifying deaths as suicides . |
| 28 | He was working at a distinct operational disadvantage , but he reckoned that this could be changed . |
| 29 | Nsanzimana commented that both would be offered representation in the government if they gave up this condition and expressed a willingness to participate . |
| 30 | Mr. Leggatt said that 75 percent of funerals locally were cremations — higher than the national average — and he speculated that this may be because of the lack of cemeteries in the area . |