Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [adj] [noun] [coord] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | Other ideas which might appeal are conservation work or playing a more active role in politics by joining your local party association . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Could have been just carelessness or inexperience or the booze . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In recent years there may have been more wealth and consumer goods around but people have seemed cynical , weary , amoral … |
| 18 | When she did finally reach for the food , or lure , all she would do was lean over and rip off a piece , rather than step on to the glove . |
| 19 | Clearly there 's sexual interaction or social interaction between men and women that one person would decide is sexual harassment and another would n't . |
| 20 | Rachaela could imagine Emma would have been all congratulations and the joys of womanhood . |
| 21 | ( A century earlier these figures would have been 11 years and 10 years . ) |
| 22 | I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion |
| 23 | ‘ The court sees no ground for saying that , for present purposes , it makes the slightest difference whether under the old law the offence would have been false pretences or larceny by a trick . |
| 24 | It is true that it would make no difference whether under the old law the offence would have been false pretences or larceny by a trick , provided the charge was laid under section 15(1) . |
| 25 | Prices of appellation d'origine controlee wines rose to what some would say were over-ambitious levels but lack of demand has forced them down again by a tenth or more in Britain with even bigger discounts available in French supermarkets . |
| 26 | You ca n't see a proton because proton is too small erm the only things that you can see are microscopic bodies and again you only infer the existence of these microscopic bodies because you actually detect the light that comes from them . |
| 27 | All I can detect is great size and power . |
| 28 | But you 've got to get some years in to get a really good pension , but I 've got thirteen and the maximum you can get is forty years but you get , then get two thirds of the salary you would have got , |
| 29 | In this case the treatment team may have to accept that the best it can offer is long-term support and encouragement , with treatment sessions being non-contingent on repeats . |