Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an agency working in the field of community development , the past two years should have been optimistic ones for Falls Community Council , as new money pumped through BAT has been made available to us and the groups we work for and with . |
| 2 | The fact that Gorbachev sent the old Stalinist Andrei Gromyko to perform the pinning on of the award must have been scant compensation for what Ceauşescu probably saw as a badge of his growing servitude to Moscow . |
| 3 | All the superintendent must have are reasonable grounds for believing that an offence is a serious arrestable one ; this safeguard , therefore , is obviated where the police think one of these vague and undefined consequences might occur . |
| 4 | I know your degree meant a lot to you , but in all honesty you might have been better resting for longer … ’ |
| 5 | It might have been that way for a while , Scum argued , but after a couple of weeks the Boroughs shitkickers moved in , and the game was up . |
| 6 | If only they 'd started when they were young like himself , there might have been some hope for them . |
| 7 | If this had been a reflection of basic principles of justice there could have been little cause for complaint , but in fact an examination of the position shows clearly that this was not the case . |
| 8 | If only he 'd been able to finish off the plastic swan and the weeping-kid picture there 'd have been some hope for the flat . |
| 9 | The presence of Bedu may have been one reason for this — the marvellous rhythmical qualities of her movement and her simple ideas built up with many possibilities ( ! ) ensured some wonderful sessions . |
| 10 | Although some of the Wealden towns may have been regional centres for craft specialisation , such as Battle with its leather working and shoemaking , most of them provided a wide range of services which allowed a high degree of virtual self-sufficiency to their surrounding areas . |
| 11 | The idea is to give a taste of life outside for mental patients who may have been inside institutions for up to twenty years . |
| 12 | However the former economic attache for the US Embassy in Ireland , Kenneth McGuire , said that while market factors may have been important considerations for Raybestos , the relocation factor probably can not be entirely dismissed in the Raybestos case . |
| 13 | There may have been some support for him among the cardinals , but they were not prepared to act in concert and several now put themselves forward . |
| 14 | There may have been secret conclaves for this purpose . |
| 15 | Again , it would have been professional suicide for a civil servant to describe the indignities of derangement and to represent himself as having been mad , unless the facts were as well known to his colleagues and masters as he says they were ; while to try , on the other hand , to put his known condition in a better light , as Hoccleve does , is sensible only if the fact of his illness was well known but his recovery less well recognised , which is what he claims . |
| 16 | Besides , filling hot water bottles was not man 's work — fetching coal , sawing wood , even opening a bottle of wine would have been suitable occupations for Rupert to be discovered in , but not this . |
| 17 | The proper sentence , taking account of all relevant factors , would have been five years for the robbery . |
| 18 | As I use Taskmax and Windows 3 , both of which use SWAP designations , these would have been primary candidates for missing disk space , except in both cases the swap areas are allocated to E : \WIN — a subdirectory on a 3Mb RAM drive . |
| 19 | If MI5 had obeyed the 1952 Maxwell Fyfe guidelines then there would have been little cause for complaint about its activities over the past 35 years . |
| 20 | On foot there would have been little danger for a man alone ; even on horseback not much . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This alone would have been sufficient grounds for divorce as far as my Pop was concerned . |
| 23 | This time the four definitive gricers ' bibles of the time come in one small , hardbacked ( and thus very easily pocketed ) volume with many pictures and full shed lists ( complete with the names of Loco Superintendents and Chief Mechanical Engineers ? ) which would have been important information for spotters of the time . |
| 24 | His house in Dartmouth was demolished when a new road was made in 1864 , and the fact that the road is named Newcomen Road is no compensation for the loss of a house that would have been holy ground for today 's industrial enthusiasts . |
| 25 | It is easy at this distance in time to explain the pattern away as an inevitable feature of the wider transition from one form of economy to another , but there can have been little pleasure for families like the Eldridges or Mepkins of Battle whose members appeared regularly in the poor-relief accounts over several generations . |
| 26 | If you share in the vision to establish a project such as this in our community for our young people then by far the most valued support you can offer is regular prayer for : |