Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So an example of words we should use are this example and there 's a handout to write , to recite , to identify , to differentiate , to solve , to construct , to list , to compare , to controls . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It must , it must have been absolute arm and a leg . |
| 4 | It must have been that day or the next , Adam thought , that he or one of them , surely he , had first suggested the commune idea . |
| 5 | We must have been closer friends than I recall , for as I go through my library 40 years later , I find quite a number of splendid books inscribed ‘ in friendship ’ from Andrew in his scrawling hand , including Henrik van Loon 's ‘ Book of Lives ’ , ‘ One Men 's Meat ’ by E.B. White , ‘ Women in Love ’ by D.H . |
| 6 | George Lodge and Gilbert Blaine must have been old acquaintances for they were hawking together in Caithness in 1913 . |
| 7 | Thus there must have been initial configurations that would not have given rise to a universe like the one we see today . |
| 8 | The uncertainty principle implies that the early universe can not have been completely uniform because there must have been some uncertainties or fluctuations in the positions and velocities of the particles . |
| 9 | It must have been some time after we had last met . |
| 10 | Other ideas which might appeal are conservation work or playing a more active role in politics by joining your local party association . |
| 11 | There was no way of being certain how long she 'd spent on the ward ; it might have been six weeks or six years , but she was guessing at six months because this had been the first commission review that she 'd received . |
| 12 | It might have been that thing that er that bloke puts in them . |
| 13 | One reason the 1989 regulations were passed was to satisfy the United States as to the protection offered in the United Kingdom , otherwise there might have been some doubt as to whether topographies derived from the United Kingdom would have been afforded protection in the United States . |
| 14 | ‘ Anyway , all I could see were violet eyes and a wide smile , and , after a few weeks of being slowly driven to distraction by your lovely ghost following me around , I decided to come to England . |
| 15 | I mean I I 'd having been these comments and yes there are a couple of extra points put in there I think that that 's fine . |
| 16 | But these were the only two films he had made in seven years , and there could have been little doubt that his particular tradition of uniformed , clenched , period Englishmen had become unfashionable in America with the coming of the new realist cinema immediately after the war . |
| 17 | He thought of sitting down to wait for a break in the storm but that could have been all night so he struggled on downhill , angling a little to the left , until he met the treeline at the bottom of the meadow . |
| 18 | Yes well we save , we possibly saved that time , most of was was completely er occupied , so if we had n't have seen the fire , there could have been forty lives or forty families at risk there . |
| 19 | At 3:1 United were cruising again and the Manor Ground fans must have been thinking what could have been this season if there had been more games like this . |
| 20 | It could have been just relief that someone would have me . |
| 21 | Could have been just carelessness or inexperience or the booze . ’ |
| 22 | I an authorised officer in nineteen sixty eight , so it 'd have been twenty years and er from there I became er an instructor in nineteen eighty four er having successfully completed a number of national run courses on firearms , firearms tactics at the national school of firearms er which are in the metropolitan district and er Lancashire and West Yorkshire . |
| 23 | It is easy to be alarmed by something which one imagines does not happen to other people and which one 's family and friends may suggest is pure imagination or , worse still , the first sign of madness ! |
| 24 | The cause of death is frequently ambiguous and pinning it down to occupational environments , which may have been experienced years or even decades ago , is clearly no easy matter . |
| 25 | In two patients the cause of anaemia may have been menstrual loss because they both settled after menstruation had stopped . |
| 26 | It may have been these factors that encouraged the Court to give a restrictive opinion on the powers of the member States . |
| 27 | Oh no , oh no , oh there were all v very few and far be there may have been local strikes but , such as one day er a grievance been put in and the men struck work just for it . |
| 28 | There may have been another factor that induced these creatures to leave the ground . |
| 29 | While the Maryland charter gave the Calverts the same executive authority as the Bishops of Durham held on the Scottish border , it required them to make sure that the colonists had approved the laws of their colony before they came into effect ; it may have been realized from earlier experience that an assembly was needed , or there may have been some feeling that a Catholic colony would have special problems . |
| 30 | It may have been this connection that took him to Nottinghamshire in 1580 , to work for Arundell 's brother-in-law , Sir Francis Willoughby , at Wollaton Hall . |