Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [verb] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The presence of Bedu may have been one reason for this — the marvellous rhythmical qualities of her movement and her simple ideas built up with many possibilities ( ! ) ensured some wonderful sessions . |
| 2 | The wave must have been fifteen feet high . |
| 3 | The fact that Gorbachev sent the old Stalinist Andrei Gromyko to perform the pinning on of the award must have been scant compensation for what Ceauşescu probably saw as a badge of his growing servitude to Moscow . |
| 4 | It made her feel that he did n't mind everyone knowing she was his girlfriend , and he was really sweet to her in bed , told her she had lovely hair and said she must never , ever cut it , it was so beautiful , and then he began to talk about Therese , saying how cruel it was that he had carried the company all these years and now , just because she was the Direktor 's favourite — he snorted at this point and said he really did believe Therese must have been old Franz 's mistress years ago in Vienna — he was being treated like a pariah , no consideration , everyone being rude and unkind to him , Therese allowed to do just what she liked on the stage even though she 'd been no-one before she came to Hochhauser . |
| 5 | All the superintendent must have are reasonable grounds for believing that an offence is a serious arrestable one ; this safeguard , therefore , is obviated where the police think one of these vague and undefined consequences might occur . |
| 6 | If , as suggested above , he faced considerable initial hostility , and presided over a government which some churchmen found oppressive , religion could have been one way in which opposition was expressed . |
| 7 | He stated that in New York , regarding practical experience , the only bodies that trainee embalmers could obtain were unclaimed ones which had been refrigerated for months , and not just a few hours old , as is the popular myth in this country . |
| 8 | If Paddy Ashdown had ordered his troops to oppose Mr Major the result would have been 300 votes to 335 against the Government — the most crushing defeat for a Prime Minister in modern times . |
| 9 | ‘ To have banned him for a few months would have been one thing , but to take him to court and ban him for life seemed to defeat the object of the exercise . ’ |
| 10 | A reasonable defence might have been that field sports were preferable to roaming the docks but , instead , the chief rabbi was assured that the boys needed the exercise . |
| 11 | His coinage system seems to have been in good order for most of the reign , although its development and exploitation for the king 's benefit may have been another cause of popular unrest . |
| 12 | They spent two years organising the site , getting volunteers from not only Britain , but abroad as well , and making sure that while the battle may have been seventeenth century , twentieth century comforts were still close at hand . |
| 13 | These Hittites may have been early migrants from the Hittite Empire in Turkey ( founded about 1800 BC ) . |
| 14 | Although the quantities are different , the source , fall-off curves and distribution of greywacké whetstones ( black dots ) and the neolithic axes are very similar , emphasising how the source of stone for the whetstones may have been glacial erratics . |
| 15 | George Lodge and Gilbert Blaine must have been old acquaintances for they were hawking together in Caithness in 1913 . |
| 16 | The bruises on her tender bottom should have been visual signs of her hatred of him . |
| 17 | The only place for his desk would have been opposite mine , with the light over his left shoulder . |
| 18 | It is a so it 's a complex set of interrelationships we 're looking at er on a sub-regional basis , I do believe that there is capacity , some capacity around the inner area of York , and to what extent the greenbelt enquiry er inspector will retain what I and others and certainly York City Council would believe is sufficient capacity remains to be seen , and though similar pleas were made at that enquiry I think they have to be restated here . |
| 19 | The idea was for them to place special devices at these loci -devices that the regular maintenance crews would think were innocuous parts of the complex of delicate wiring . |
| 20 | There is a trick in making privatisations a success , something that the UK government has had to learn the hard way , and it seems that the Turks have yet to learn it : Reuter reports from Istanbul that the public offer of 20% of the shares in Netas Northern Electric Telekomunikasyon AS was undersubscribed , suggesting that the reason was that the maximum for which any one buyer could subscribe was 5,000 shares , costing the equivalent of $4,450 , which is thought to have put off institutional and foreign buyers . |
| 21 | Isaac and Samuel may have been rabbinical teachers themselves , as well as patrons of other teachers . |
| 22 | The vendor may have been Pantell S.A. The vendor may have been Swiss Atlantic Holdings Ltd. , a U.K. company , on whose behalf Pantell S.A. was , under an agreement dated 1 March 1988 , authorised to sell Euramco shares to the investing public on a commission basis . |
| 23 | Robert Olivier suggests that the first tame elephants may have been orphaned calves reared as pets . |
| 24 | Besides , there is good evidence that the crocodiles of that time were much faster-moving reptiles than their dinosaur contemporaries — indeed , the ancestors of modern crocodiles may have been nimble land-animals , since to this day crocodiles have an ankle structure typical of a rapid terrestrial carnivore . |
| 25 | As an agency working in the field of community development , the past two years should have been optimistic ones for Falls Community Council , as new money pumped through BAT has been made available to us and the groups we work for and with . |
| 26 | After recording a verdict of accidental death coroner Nicholas Gardiner said it was known that the seats should have been rear facing but he did n't think this would have affected the outcome . |
| 27 | What the urban population could use is better trains |
| 28 | A booking would have been sufficient punishment . |
| 29 | Besides , filling hot water bottles was not man 's work — fetching coal , sawing wood , even opening a bottle of wine would have been suitable occupations for Rupert to be discovered in , but not this . |
| 30 | Which means that from Slains they took some old route perhaps across the Moss of Cruden , then crossed where the A92 runs now , and from the modern A950 , or a comparable road , went up to Strichen through the Forest of Deer : today 's byroads may have been old lanes or drovers ' trails . |