Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When told by them that the sales of budgerigar seed were disastrous and the market might easily disappear within a few years , Mrs Franklin came back with what you may think was a simple answer — but it was profound in terms of changing British public opinion — she said , " Breed your own consumers . " |
| 2 | Changes in sexual regulation we may hypothesise were more a product of changing patterns of class power and alliances , various , and changing forms of pressure , and shifting perceptions of the moral needs of classes and masses rather than the result of any firm , moralizing policy . |
| 3 | But final-stage rockets had misfired before , and at a time when people were whispering about a change of prime Minister and the shake-out that would bring , the very last thing Sladen must want was to be caught up in a brawl between Number 10 , the Foreign Office , Defence and the secret services . |
| 4 | in Brazil the archbishop now in his late eighties I should think was renowned everywhere said that there 's a quote here from him on the Traidcraft leaflet . |
| 5 | I mean my application essentially I should think was one of the simplest |
| 6 | ‘ I 've had a few hasty assignations in lay-bys to pass over pots of prepared food that no one must know were n't prepared by the hostess , ’ says Mrs Anderson . |
| 7 | Though , on looking across at him , and observing that one eyebrow had ascended aloft at what he must consider was the sharpness of her answer , she realised that she was never likely to get an interview if she did not control her exasperation at his evasive non-answers to most of her questions . |
| 8 | The one and only thing she could do and must do was to fetch help — swiftly . |
| 9 | What she must do was concentrate on getting her memory back so that she could get home to them as soon as humanly possible . |
| 10 | Hypnosis does not increase the recall of meaningless information like nonsense syllables , which it should do were it tapping a hypothetical memory-taperecorder lurking in the subconscious . |
| 11 | The government did not have to concern itself with the balance of payments ( which was always expected to be favourable or self-adjusting ) , free trade meant that there was no need for elaborate connections with industry , the level of employment had to be left to the supply and demand for labour , and all that the government should do was elementary regulation in the interests of those sections of the community unable to defend themselves . |
| 12 | Just as a gentleman was defined by his likeness to other gentlemen , so a house should resemble other houses of a similar standing ; it would therefore be redundant to describe what every courteous author must assume was already known to his readers . |
| 13 | ‘ I did say to her that the man Andy should see was Giles Hawick himself . |
| 14 | Vagueness was resorted to by the judge in Jenkins v Reid in order to explain why a reformulation of a clause was unacceptable and in Gledhow Autoparts Ltd v Delaney [ 1965 ] 1 WLR 1366 Dankwerts LJ criticised the phrase " districts in which the traveller had operated " as being too vague especially as instructions given as to where he should work were purely oral . |
| 15 | I am saying that Lord Justice Woolf , who produced an authoritative report on prison riots and the improvement of prison conditions — admittedly , a report that does not recommend the one thing that the Home Secretary has chosen to do , but a report which the Home Secretary wrongly described as comprehensive — draws attention time after time to the simple fact that all prisons that rioted in 1990 and were the subject of the inquiry were so overcrowded that many of the proper duties that prisons should perform were not being and could not be performed . |
| 16 | But at least as far as the church is concerned , a conservative believes that what place a woman should hold was made known in the past and stands for all time . |
| 17 | Those questioned believed that the main issue which Darlington voters thought the next Government should tackle was the health service , followed by education and jobs . |
| 18 | Galloway , who received the high accolade of the Cointreau award for innovative design , said the choice of what Kylie should wear was left up to Nicole . |
| 19 | In the process of losing his undisputed title to Bowe , on what one must say was an overwhelming points decision , Holyfield defined the qualities of a true champion . |
| 20 | Once he 'd gone , I was approached by a woman who started rubbing my stomach and putting her hand down my trousers , which I must say was enough to make me say yes immediately . |
| 21 | Instead he fixed his eyes on his hands , which were clasped together on the desk , studying them as if the words he must say were written on his bony fingers . |
| 22 | So I think , if I 've got ta say , mum 's I should say was maternity which you , they were very , very political animals . |
| 23 | The Save-A-Can picture was taken on January 7 this year , just after the New Year 's festivities and therefore all of the recycling facilities for glass and cans were very well used . |
| 24 | As is well brought out in a recent paper , the views of Carnap 's which Quine opposed involved the claim that conventionally adopted analytic linguistic frameworks provided criteria of reality , which set up the standards according to which any question that might arise was settlable ( Ricketts 1982 ) . |
| 25 | In indicating content and method they spawn ‘ approved ’ material of all kinds which , if used , serves to protect the individual teacher from any criticism which might arise were he or she to follow a more tangential or personalised approach to meeting curriculum goals . |
| 26 | Even when what few benefits might exist were pre-empted over my head by two strangers . |
| 27 | She could see that nothing could harm her , that there was no danger , that danger in so far as it might exist was desirable , and she started to walk , slowly , up the street , looking at those who looked at her , exchanging glance for glance , shivering in the warm April air from a tremulous , hopeful , artificial apprehension . |
| 28 | It was said by the court that the plaintiff 's case must fail because any duty of confidence which might exist was owed to the Greek Government and not to the plaintiff . |
| 29 | ‘ Parliament has deprived the courts of any power of detention of a person of this age or what many people might think was any effective punishment for that grave crime . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Nothing , ’ he said , ‘ you might think was a hand unless it is still your distress . |