Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [verb] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The wave must have been fifteen feet high . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If , as suggested above , he faced considerable initial hostility , and presided over a government which some churchmen found oppressive , religion could have been one way in which opposition was expressed . |
| 6 | If Paddy Ashdown had ordered his troops to oppose Mr Major the result would have been 300 votes to 335 against the Government — the most crushing defeat for a Prime Minister in modern times . |
| 7 | A reasonable defence might have been that field sports were preferable to roaming the docks but , instead , the chief rabbi was assured that the boys needed the exercise . |
| 8 | His coinage system seems to have been in good order for most of the reign , although its development and exploitation for the king 's benefit may have been another cause of popular unrest . |
| 9 | They spent two years organising the site , getting volunteers from not only Britain , but abroad as well , and making sure that while the battle may have been seventeenth century , twentieth century comforts were still close at hand . |
| 10 | The bruises on her tender bottom should have been visual signs of her hatred of him . |
| 11 | The only place for his desk would have been opposite mine , with the light over his left shoulder . |
| 12 | It is a so it 's a complex set of interrelationships we 're looking at er on a sub-regional basis , I do believe that there is capacity , some capacity around the inner area of York , and to what extent the greenbelt enquiry er inspector will retain what I and others and certainly York City Council would believe is sufficient capacity remains to be seen , and though similar pleas were made at that enquiry I think they have to be restated here . |
| 13 | There is a trick in making privatisations a success , something that the UK government has had to learn the hard way , and it seems that the Turks have yet to learn it : Reuter reports from Istanbul that the public offer of 20% of the shares in Netas Northern Electric Telekomunikasyon AS was undersubscribed , suggesting that the reason was that the maximum for which any one buyer could subscribe was 5,000 shares , costing the equivalent of $4,450 , which is thought to have put off institutional and foreign buyers . |
| 14 | The vendor may have been Pantell S.A. The vendor may have been Swiss Atlantic Holdings Ltd. , a U.K. company , on whose behalf Pantell S.A. was , under an agreement dated 1 March 1988 , authorised to sell Euramco shares to the investing public on a commission basis . |
| 15 | What the urban population could use is better trains |
| 16 | A booking would have been sufficient punishment . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The lecturer may have been 20 years older , wealthier , and inevitably wiser , but that is often why the student chose to sleep with him . |
| 19 | Another half-exception may have been Bonar Law . |
| 20 | Over in the bower where Ralemberg and his wife used to sit were four corpses , each covered by a dirty , canvas sheet . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | That claim may have been sheer bravado , but given his long association with US intelligence , the general undoubtedly has enough mud to splatter many of his erstwhile US friends . |
| 23 | Typically , 20 or 30s was required for a full evaluation using all the equations , though processing could have been ten times as quick with an 80287 fitted . |
| 24 | A purist could argue that it was class and function that set these store owners up for assault , but on the streets , in the full fury of those 48 hours , stretching from the mid-afternoon Wednesday verdict in Simi Valley , any Korean would have been fair game . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A short-term contract would have been ideal experience . ’ |
| 27 | This route would have been wishful thinking to the classical organic chemist hut the reaction proceeds readily in the presence of rhodium , one of the rarest metals , and of iodine , which act together as a catalyst system . |
| 28 | Bearing in mind the provocation , and the fact that the offender had to face the prospect of being sentenced a second time , the sentence was far too lenient , and a proper sentence would have been two years ' immediate imprisonment : that sentence would be substituted . |
| 29 | The consequence was that , deducting three years from eight , the proper sentence would have been five years : that sentence would be imposed . |
| 30 | The correct sentence would have been nine months ' detention in a young offender institution , and that sentence would be substituted . |