Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | George Lodge and Gilbert Blaine must have been old acquaintances for they were hawking together in Caithness in 1913 . |
| 3 | It must have been some time after we had last met . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In two patients the cause of anaemia may have been menstrual loss because they both settled after menstruation had stopped . |
| 8 | Because he liked women to be gentle and soft and obedient he thought that women would like being that way since it would make him like them . |
| 9 | However , despite this evidence , prosecution would have been political suicide since the defendants might have argued that civil servants and certain government ministers knew of the oil sanctions-busting arrangements and therefore the company considered their actions , although technically illegal , were informally condoned by governmental officials . |
| 10 | A major part of the paper 's thinking was that it could employ people who would have been good journalists if they had pursued journalism as a conventional career . |
| 11 | Emma had mounted the first step of the stairs and she was unwinding her scarf when she turned and looked down on her mother , saying , ‘ I would have been many things if I had been brought up in peace . ’ |
| 12 | Security chiefs said there would have been widespread bloodshed if the bomb had gone off inside the soldiers ' quarters in Cookstown on Tuesday . |
| 13 | Had we relied on public sector finance , it would have been another century before we had such an opportunity for British industry , with all the infrastructure back-up that will flow from it . |
| 14 | Erm it would have been three days cos that 's ninety odd quid , ninety six quid . |
| 15 | It has survived so long because abolishing it would have been more trouble than it was worth , but that does not make it any better in itself . |
| 16 | Erm yeah well actually it would actually be much more sensible to divide the year into into thirteen months each of twenty eight days because twenty eight days you will realize is two fortnights so you can divide the year very nicely into thirteen equal periods . |
| 17 | All one may own are such rights as the law confers upon someone who holds confidential information . |