Example sentences of "[vb mod] [pers pn] [vb infin] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A township seemingly unaffected by Parliamentary influence , with Roman Catholics worshipping openly with , perhaps a despairing vicar trying , perhaps half-heartedly , to depress the old and infiltrate the Anglican requirements possibly to a largely unwilling ( or might they have been uncaring ? ) flock . |
| 2 | Or might they have been Tory voters fooled by Labour 's billboard poster of John Major wearing an SNP rosette ? |
| 3 | Morse took his time to answer : ‘ In what way might it have been profitable ? ’ |
| 4 | Could she have been right when she had thought , almost a week ago , that Roman was about to tell her he had asked Dana to marry him ? |
| 5 | Nor could she have been aware of the matey tap with which the russet radical awoke the aforementioned scribe in the morning , a cup of tea grasped in his proletarian fist . |
| 6 | How could she have been foolish enough to let it happen ? she asked herself inwardly as the lift slowed and stopped , and its wide metal doors sighed open . |
| 7 | How could he have been capable of such cruelty ? |
| 8 | ‘ Could he have been American ? ’ |
| 9 | I said could it have been continuous rain ? |
| 10 | ‘ And how could it have been important enough to justify half-a-dozen murders ? ’ |
| 11 | And I would also support Mr Potters in the addition of the under-used term would I think be beneficial to the policy . |
| 12 | and she would I think be prepared to as she 's in charge of their sort of arrangements for where they dance , er it 's easier than ne negotiating with someone who who I 've only met once er very briefly . |
| 13 | Erm whereas if there were independent trustees responsible to the regulator and they were properly trained , they would I suggest be able to smell out very quickly any malpractice and would have straight to the regulator , if only to call a stop for someone to have a look at it . |
| 14 | Yes , yes er whereas if there were independent trustees responsible to the regulator and they were properly trained , they would I suggest be able to smell out very quickly an malpractice and would have a group straight to the regulator , if only to call a stop for someone to have a look at it . |
| 15 | And if Oliver had betrayed him , as he had betrayed all the others , what would she have been able to do for the Chartist candidate then ? |
| 16 | He said , erm , well what would you think was reasonable ? |
| 17 | Absurd , yes so which bit would you say is absurd ? |
| 18 | Would you please be good enough to arrange signature on behalf of Three Vee Ltd ? |
| 19 | Should you feel unable to help in this venture for any reason would you please be kind enough to return the tickets to me . |
| 20 | ‘ Would you have been capable of doing it yourself ? ’ |
| 21 | But if someone were hiding here , would you have been likely to have seen him ? ’ |
| 22 | I mean wou would , as a cadre receiving this would you have been happy to take this up and implement it ? |
| 23 | would you have been willing to provide it ? |
| 24 | The good points , the points you disagree with completely , but most importantly of , of all , would you have been able to have worked from that particular quality plan as presented to you ? |
| 25 | Would they have been proud of us ? |
| 26 | Would they have been old fashioned records , the seventy eights ? |
| 27 | The queen mother 's religious views and those of the French advisers she gathered around her did little to allay the reformers ' fears ; nor would they have been happy to know that on Mary 's marriage in 1558 to the Dauphin , who the following year became King Francis II , she secretly signed an agreement that if she should die childless her kingdom of Scotland and her claim to the throne of England should become her husband 's . |
| 28 | Only on pagan sites converted into other uses by Christians would it have been necessary to carry out a purification ceremony involving the use of the Chi-Rho symbol . |
| 29 | ‘ Now , Mr Jordan , would it have been possible for someone to get into your shed on Friday night , remove the Scapegoat and substitute a body dressed in the Scapegoat 's clothes ? ’ |
| 30 | Nor would it have been possible to ask , nor even to rely on any information which might have been forthcoming , since Amabel , who always retired to bed for the duration of her own " monthly curse " had said nothing more to the point than , " Darling , I must beg of you never to speak of this to anyone , when Gemma at the age of fourteen had first seen evidence of hers . |