Example sentences of "[subord] [modal v] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this stage , the pursuer 's agents ought to be prepared for Proof and ought , therefore , to be more receptive to arguments concerning actual weaknesses in their case than may have been true at an earlier stage . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | So although the absence of key workers in Newham meant that there were few boundary disputes , it also meant that the development officer could become very closely involved in organising other services , and perhaps feel that other services took advantage of the Home Support Project and showed less involvement than would have been necessary without the project . |
| 4 | For a given outlay of local currency it has ensured a higher value of imports than would have been available under a market valuation of the currency . |
| 5 | This provided a richer and more varied diet and a grander life style for those in the middle and upper ranks of society than would have been possible if they had been dependent only on the products of a self-contained peasant economy . |
| 6 | These above-average profits depended to some extent on the Company 's political influence in England ; in India it was not powerful enough to control the market , but its charter gave it a monopoly in England which let it push prices up further than would have been practicable if non-members of the Company ( denounced as ‘ interlopers ’ ) had been able to import cotton goods into England freely . |
| 7 | Occasionally , things get a little confusing — Ride and the pixies are hardly baggy faves — but the presence of the seminal ‘ Taste ’ and ‘ Velouria ’ gives the LP more variety than would have been present on a groove-only affair . |
| 8 | Occasionally , things get a little confusing — Ride and the pixies are hardly baggy faves — but the presence of the seminal ‘ Taste ’ and ‘ Velouria ’ gives the LP more variety than would have been present on a groove-only affair . |
| 9 | Sankey ( the Lord Chancellor ) and J. H. Thomas survived longer than would have been likely had they been Conservatives . |
| 10 | Such problems of internal management as may arise are likely to come from unfamiliarity on the part of individual teachers with the changing requirements of examinations and assessment . |
| 11 | The complete plan , however , should have a surrounding portico or ambulatory , as would have been normal in temples of this type . |
| 12 | Duns Scotus is a major figure for the ecumenical movement in Scotland and that fact was recognised when the service took place at an evening prayer meeting attended by many non-Catholics , rather than during mass , as would have been normal . |
| 13 | 923 were cases in which , in effect , the same rules were applied as would have been applicable regardless of any special relationship between surety and debtor . |
| 14 | In one case , however , a misunderstanding of what are admittedly very unclear social security regulations meant that the minimum period was twice as long as would have been necessary to satisfy this objective . |
| 15 | As will have been apparent , the prima facie equality of shares can be modified by dividing the share capital into different classes with different rights as to dividends , capital or voting or with different nominal values . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |