Example sentences of "[adv] [modal v] [verb] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This alone would have been sufficient grounds for divorce as far as my Pop was concerned .
2 Their needs alone would have been enough reason — were enough — for a number of us over the next three to four years to stay in a male organization , with largely male resources for mainly male callers and to join with some of those men to change it .
3 He had to look into her eyes because he was so close to her that to look elsewhere would have been blatant rudeness .
4 well must have been different neighbours to my day !
5 To judge from the surviving accounts of the escribano detailed for the occasion , it was a ceremony that today would have been ideal grist for the television networks .
6 It is not clear how far there were similar local grievances to those of the Kentishmen in some of the other shires which were involved in the revolt , notably Sussex and Surrey , although it is probable that the resentment of the citizens of Salisbury at the powers which the bishop exercised there may have been one factor behind the murder of Ayscough ( 7 ; 147 , pp.63 , 66–8 ) .
7 Now if you 'd have drawn it there 'd have been some doubt .
8 If he had denied it there could have been some hope .
9 To execute him for treason indeed would have been little help to the government in its attempt to crush and discredit the Reformation , but they could not proceed against him for heresy in due form until England was reconciled with the Roman Catholic Church .
10 In these studies , Bjornsson used groups of 24 or more readers ( of whom half at least would have been native speakers ) and calculated correlations to check the reliability of their judgements , On sets of 100 texts , the correlations were on average 0.99 , which suggests that for adults at least , there is a high level of agreement about what is difficult .
11 She didn there would 've been enough change in that and Kath was gon na go straight to the bank and get her some money back , right ?
12 This year 's battle of the budget is generating more anguish than any for years , John Major 's cabinet now realize what a parliamentary mess December might turn into with week-long debates on both the Queen 's speech and the budget to pack in , and worse to come in the spring , a budget combining taxes with public spending seemed a good idea at the time Norman Lamont announced it , but with November the thirtieth just a month away the political down-side is appearing , of course with a fifty billion pound deficit in the Government 's accounts this years spending round would have been hard pounding anyhow , but the usual noisy haggle over the available cash among departments is now amplified by posses of Tory backbenchers trying to head off this or that tax increase , and there 's an incentive to keep that up right through the finance bill after Christmas , since most new taxes would not come in until April .
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