Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is far from clear that the necessary Listed Building Consent for demolition would have been forthcoming from the local authority . |
| 2 | Protagonists of unity may have been despondent about the loss of the EDC and the European Political Community , but were not routed . |
| 3 | That the Director of Public Prosecutions did not press for prosecution suggests that this line of defence might have been effective , or might have resulted in the prosecution net catching even larger , embarrassed fish . |
| 4 | It seems clear that Britain at least did not envisage any institutional structures beyond this , yet some form of framework would have been necessary if all the objectives of the treaty were to be properly fulfilled . |
| 5 | In January 1644 , assessed at £1,000 , he pleaded for a mitigation ; his lack of money may have been due to personal extravagance at court as much as political troubles . |
| 6 | Frank and Wallerstein 's versions of the international division of labour may have been accurate for some countries during some periods , but the re-formation of capitalism on a global scale in the latter part of the twentieth century has rendered it increasingly less so . |
| 7 | The success experienced among the eastern Angles with the conversion of Eorpwald may have been due in part at least to the influence of older patterns established by missionaries in the time of Raedwald , but nevertheless it testifies to Eadwine 's real influence in the East Anglian area at this time . |
| 8 | We forget that early experiences of grief must have been communal , and still are in many societies . |
| 9 | Cope 's monopoly of artillery ought to have been decisive but the Highlanders were only 400 yards [ 365 m ] away when with a ‘ hideous shout ’ they burst out of the mist , with the sun behind them , and charged towards the inexperienced gunners , broadswords in hand , with a bloodcurdling yell . |
| 10 | His design of mill may have been original , but others had long been growing rape-seed in East Anglia and milling rape-seed around London . |
| 11 | One can see what sort of benefit would have been taxable if the courts had decided that a tax charge could arise . |
| 12 | When I first visited the cliff 15 years ago , that level of congestion would have been unimaginable . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | THE Department of Trade may have been slow to acknowledge financial — though not supervisory — responsibility for the victims of Barlow Clowes . |
| 15 | Panel members said that , when awards were intended to articulate with degrees , a copy of the degree course documentation or a diagram indicating clearly the scope and nature of articulation would have been helpful . |
| 16 | In fact , even in this area where the textile trade was important , such a high level of unemployment would have been surprising , for cloth exports in the mid 1520s were substantially higher than earlier in the decade , when there had been a marked recession . |
| 17 | This time tomorrow it would be all over , and part of history ; the victors would be celebrating , the losers complaining that had it not been for this and that , they would have won , and the course of history would have been different . |
| 18 | Whatever the justification there may have been in the past , when a high degree of ability may have been necessary to acquire and work at the trade , that reason has forever passed away if it ever was more than a trade gild superstition . |
| 19 | While the facilities that this kind of software can offer are attractive they can have some drawbacks . |
| 20 | In two patients the cause of anaemia may have been menstrual loss because they both settled after menstruation had stopped . |
| 21 | A page of Herodotus would have been sufficient to put a battalion of biblical scholars out of action . |
| 22 | These methods of securing freedom of speech may have been effective , but they are happily unusual in England and constituted in our opinion a deplorable outrage of public order . |
| 23 | The judgment of the Court of Appeal would have been final if the action by the petitioner were dismissed and final if the petitioner were awarded damages . |
| 24 | If the Court of Appeal could have been sure that there was jurisdiction in the House of Lords to have heard B 's unresolved grounds of appeal . |
| 25 | The example of Cato must have been decisive . |
| 26 | People thought he was doing this deliberately , because people never really believe that the beautiful lack confidence ; looking back , I think that to start with Boy must have been frightened almost all of the time . |
| 27 | If artificial selection does change the average condition of the population , the trait under selection must have been heritable ; and the degree of response to artificial selection indicates the degree of heritability . |
| 28 | Miller and his colleagues ( e.g. Miller and Springer 1973 ; Miller and Schachtman 1985 ) have shown that certain ‘ reminder ’ treatments are capable of restoring lost behaviour , thus demonstrating that the information necessary for the behaviour in question must have been present all along but was merely unavailable to the mechanisms responsible for controlling behaviour . |
| 29 | Thus , execution in rem can have been available only where the person sued was actually in possession of the object . |
| 30 | To have quit in failure would have been unthinkable but it was triumph all the way . |