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 | He had to look into her eyes because he was so close to her that to look elsewhere would have been blatant rudeness . |
| 3 | well must have been different neighbours to my day ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |