Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , it can not be ignored that Marco did n't have many options , since Eddie was about to kill him , and Marco 's actions were in self-defence : I think that Marco may only have beaten Eddie up had he not drawn the knife , but not killed him . |
| 2 | Elves , like dragons , are embedded deeply in several different traditions of North-West Europe , and the inconsistencies of those traditions may only have made Tolkien itch to create a Zusammenhang . |
| 3 | Wear Valley Council may only have promised Stanley United FC two footballs ( Gadfly March 4 ) but the hidden agenda looks more promising . |
| 4 | At the stage in the growth of a scientific discovery when it is no longer just internal but has not yet become a formal paper , then the scholarly interchange would have depended on whom individuals knew or knew of , the letter writing would be unmanaged and survive by chance ( often only one side of the story ) and , due to concern that ideas should not be stolen , may only have taken place at a late stage of the discovery process . |
| 5 | The publication by Lobachevsky in 1829 of a consistent ( non-Euclidean ) geometry , in which Euclid 's parallel postulate is denied , should perhaps have turned mathematicians ' attention back to a study of axioms , especially as it had long been appreciated that Euclid 's use of the axiomatic method was , to say the least , inconsistent ( [ 106 ] contains stronger views . ) |
| 6 | She should perhaps have brought Glyn after all . |
| 7 | William and Gladys Wilkins had paid £23,000 for the work — which experts said should only have cost £2,700 . |
| 8 | The Lord President ( Cooper ) in IRC v Gordon 33 TC 226 at 230 stated that : … it is not enough that a person resident in the United Kingdom should somehow have derived benefit from the income of a foreign possession … the duty of the Court was to seek for an actual remittance to , and receipt in , the United Kingdom and not to be lead astray by an " equivalent " to a remittance or receipt , or a " constructive receipt " . |
| 9 | The Lord 's Prayer is quoted in the repeated fragment ‘ For Thine is the Kingdom ’ but the earlier uses of the word kingdom , particularly when it has a capital ‘ K ’ , must already have prompted questions about allusion to this fundamental Christian rite , and about how it relates to those ‘ prayers to broken stone ’ . |
| 10 | Before the IUD could do its work conception must already have taken place , egg and sperm having fused in a fallopian , and the multiplying cells travelled down to the womb to seek a place of anchorage , a home which the alpha-shaped loop by its very presence denied them , causing the minute beginnings of an embryo to swim in vain and ultimately be shed . |
| 11 | Although these roads must always have provided access to the dockyard at the Gillingham Gate they had not carried heavy goods vehicles to any extent in the past . |
| 12 | However , ultraviolet radiation must also have aided evolution . |
| 13 | It must also have provided opportunities for men to meet regularly to discuss politics , and such discussions , and the attitude of those in the shires in times of crisis , may often have centred on how far they thought the king and his officials were living up to what was expected of them . |
| 14 | The translation must also have helped proselytism , which acquired quite different dimensions as soon as the Jews began to speak Greek . |
| 15 | That the ministry should also have cheated egg producers out of their compensation is a matter over which Mr Gummer should resign . ’ |
| 16 | It should also have defined measures of performance , a mechanism for recognising when deviations occur , and a means of taking control action when necessary , factors that are particularly relevant to the Procedure Audit process . |
| 17 | In EastEnders you really are concerned with whether or not Sharon should be trying to find her mother , or whether her mother should really have treated Sharon like that , and whether Michelle should have told Sharon that her mother was pregnant . |
| 18 | Green must surely have seen Sandby 's landscape prints and possibly some of his paintings . |
| 19 | Yet the favours and appointments she showered on him must surely have given Bothwell reason to assume that he could interpret her secret wishes . |
| 20 | Rose should surely have reached Vetch Street by now and Eddie been sent on his way by Matey or McAllister after being summoned from his nearby home . |
| 21 | Couple of final points er Madam Deputy Speaker , er the government should surely have clarified responsibility of auditors . |
| 22 | This was surprising because Peter Such bowled so well at the other end , it should surely have helped Tufnell . |
| 23 | Only then did she see that she should never have accepted Ven 's invitation . |
| 24 | Hells bells , I should never have quit abstinence . |
| 25 | I should never have extended credit to you then , and I wo n't do it again . |
| 26 | As a Republican , a Primitive Baptist preacher and a self-described ‘ dumb farm boy ’ , Mr Hunt should never have become governor . |
| 27 | What good was this love that she should never have given birth to ? |
| 28 | They should never have taken part in something so unnatural . |
| 29 | Almost universally , the opinion is that the trial should never have taken place , which is of little comfort to the defendants who , they say , have effectively lost two and a half years of their lives . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's a sham of a marriage that should never have taken place , and you 're doing no one any harm . |