Example sentences of "[noun sg] [ex0] [modal v] [vb infin] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However much ignorant opposition there may have been at first to women taking part in public life , there are comparatively few cooperative men or women who would now oppose women being poor law guardians or members of educational communities . |
| 2 | I am glad they 've approved it because it 's , it 's removed any uncertainty there might have been about the nineteen nineties , slightly disappointing that they chose to tinker with our wording here and there , but , but by and large , not too unhappy . |
| 3 | Nearly four years have passed since The Satanic Verses was declared blasphemous by the late Ayatollah Khomeini , and during this long period of internal exile there must have been times when Rushdie , experiencing deep changes and wrenches in the soul , has wondered at the prescience of those words . |
| 4 | What little opportunity there might have been for careful integration , had been lost . |
| 5 | Despite the volume of sheer hard physical slog there must have been with no vacuum cleaners , washing machines , electric mixers or all the other electronic gadgetry which have eased the burden of housework considerably Eva has no recollection of her mother getting uptight or tense . |
| 6 | I sometimes wonder at the sheer multiplicity of the oyster Gryphaea arcuata there must have been on the earliest Jurassic sea-floors over what is now Europe , and the millions upon millions of creatures ( whatever they were ) that chewed their way through mid Jurassic mud to produce the trace-fossil Zoophycos . |
| 7 | Whatever the justification there may have been in the past , when a high degree of ability may have been necessary to acquire and work at the trade , that reason has forever passed away if it ever was more than a trade gild superstition . |
| 8 | Whatever understanding there might have been between the police and the BUF ended at this remark . |