Example sentences of "[vb infin] occurred " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only doubt concerning whether she would succeed occurred before the tournament began , when she was spotted with a neck brace . |
| 2 | It may have occurred to some readers already . |
| 3 | It might already have occurred to you that the routine can be varied to produce different benefits . |
| 4 | But it would leave the Government exposed to the full force of house-buyers ' fury , with no international excuse for forcing an increase in mortgage rates that would probably have occurred anyway . |
| 5 | If thought and study had been restricted to whatever held out the visible prospect of material advantage , that explosive corruscation of human achievement which is European civilisation would never have occurred . |
| 6 | It is also unquestionably misleading to assume , as Engels does , that such a stage must have occurred as a precursor to the emergence of the State in Greece or Rome . |
| 7 | Perhaps it will have occurred to the reader that there might be links between the disorders and treatments described so far . |
| 8 | He believes that such vast and unexpected escapes of sub-global meltwater might have occurred a number of times as the ice sheets broke up at the end the Ice Age . |
| 9 | Other fatalities may have occurred as well , ’ Mr Richard Boucher , a State Department spokesman , anounced at yesterday 's regular briefing . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't think it would have occurred to her to want to die , ’ I said . |
| 11 | However , it seems that when an egg is produced , it carries no memory of any differentiation that may have occurred in the organism that produced it . |
| 12 | Sixty-two per cent of those in old people 's homes had been there for a year or more compared with 47 per cent of those in nursing homes , but this difference might have occurred by chance . |
| 13 | Dr Grainger and some of the local doctors dismissed the ulcers and sore throats as ‘ common ’ , saying they ‘ could well have occurred as a coincidence ’ . |
| 14 | Not only does one wonder what embarrassment might have occurred to warrant it but the propriety in not claiming the Ladies ' door and leading to a lavatory in the way the men 's clearly does , is a reminder of the delicacy of those times . |
| 15 | This can eradicate the handicap if the operation is performed early , but mental handicap and spasticity will still have occurred where the operation has been conducted too late . |
| 16 | Indeed , full recovery might never have occurred had it not been for the invasion of the area by the Lombards , the people after whom the plain on which the city is set and the region of which it is the capital are named . |
| 17 | It could have occurred in the last couple of days , within the Metropolitan police area . |
| 18 | That Howe 's resignation should have occurred so opportunely for Heseltine — on the very eve of the one time of year that the party rules permit a leadership challenge — was extremely important . |
| 19 | However , if farms remain profitable , yield-increasing technologies tend to mask the effect of soil degradation and erosion and make up for declines in fertility that would have occurred if land had been cultivated with a constant level of technology . |
| 20 | He never lifted whole sections of design from antique buildings as Wilkins did , and as some architects are doing again in our own day , or squeezed his buildings into medieval or Jacobean plan forms : it would never have occurred to him that he should . |
| 21 | Indeed , it must have occurred on just one of those summer evenings she mentions , for I can recall distinctly climbing to the second landing and seeing before me a series of orange shafts from the sunset breaking the gloom of the corridor where each bedroom door stood ajar . |
| 22 | Deaths from overexposure would not have occurred until years later and so caused no immediate alarm . |
| 23 | This could very easily have occurred . |
| 24 | Learned letters , both for and against , bristled with information about how such an event could have occurred . |
| 25 | Astronomical evidence suggests that this may have occurred in the first half of the year 5 BC . |
| 26 | Spread of the disease can already have occurred by the time the characteristic abscesses develop . |
| 27 | It 's a little surprising , then , that similar phenomena had not been recognized prior to 1902 , since they must have occurred on numerous occasions in the past . |
| 28 | It is n't a subject that most people like to dwell on ; it may never even have occurred to you . |
| 29 | It is n't a subject that most people like to dwell on ; it may never even have occurred to you . |
| 30 | Some of these changes will have occurred by re-grouping existing fields without many boundary changes but probably a fair proportion will have been associated with boundary losses . |