Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb mod] [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one knows what these carved objects might have been for , so perhaps they were n't for anything , but a heartening prehistoric example of art for art 's sake . |
| 2 | Browse in the gift shop or enjoy refreshment in the restaurant , and you can reflect for a few moments on how different things might have been without the events of 1066 . |
| 3 | The repeated readings must have been in the nature of a penance , which , because of his awareness of his own prejudices , was deliberately self-imposed . |
| 4 | The tightly packed schiltrons might have been in some danger if the enemy 's Welsh archers had been used at once ; but Edward or his advisers thought they could settle things swiftly by an all-out cavalry charge . |
| 5 | I begin to get some idea of what the Roman games must 've been like . ’ |
| 6 | Effectively this means that the previous dealings must have been on the same terms and a consistent procedure must have been followed . |
| 7 | For a start , most dealers were young and ignorant characters who before drifting into their present positions might have been on the dole , or at University , or in menial office jobs , at which time they probably did n't even know what stocks and shares were . |
| 8 | Many statutes can already be summoned up on a video screen at the touch of a few buttons , and complete coverage is in the offing ; but , since the use of these computerised systems is expensive , the old-fashioned methods will long be with us . |
| 9 | Any legitimacy that nuclear weapons may have is in respect not of their potential use , but as regards their possession as a means of ‘ deterrence ’ . |
| 10 | However tough things might have been at home , there 's usually an underlying familiarity of experience that allows family members to overcome or endure difficulties . |
| 11 | When they finally moved out their successors found the floor covered with six layers of linoleum — the bottom ones must have been in position for many a long year ! |
| 12 | Now I do n't what Italy and those Middle Ages would have been like , that the sort of clothes that were worn . |
| 13 | Now I do n't what Italy and those Middle Ages would have been like , that the sort of clothes that were worn . |
| 14 | Previously , my close relationships would have been with people where we would perhaps be living together or just lovers , but they would have been quite explicit that they would have been non-monogamous . |
| 15 | By all accounts , not many years ago the Western Isles must have been among the most depressed of the peripheral areas of Europe . |
| 16 | Defenders of the evacuees pointed out that the exercise had taken place at the end of a particularly hot summer , in which head lice would have thrived , that parents had not been properly informed of how long their children would be evacuated for ( and hence despatched them in one day 's clothing ) , or that the first day of evacuation ( 1 September ) was a Friday — the day on which working-class financial resources would have been at their lowest , preventing parents buying extra garments for their children . |
| 17 | A fondness for dumb beasts may have been in the Hauxwell blood , because her Uncle Tommy , not a sentimental man in his later years , was a compassionate ‘ amateur ’ vet in Baldersdale . |
| 18 | Ours went , I think , to 2 , 5 and 7 ; the other floors might have been in another building , or another town . |
| 19 | The bursting upon the scene of an organized working class carrying out industrial action on a substantial level , or not just working-class suffrage but , for the first time , mass political parties , and especially working-class parties must have been at least partly experienced as an eruption of contingency and chaos into a world of order . |
| 20 | These conclusions are probably most valid for the female Type 2 diabetic subject , in whom it is interesting to speculate that serum lipid levels may have been towards the upper end of the normal distribution even in adolescence . |
| 21 | It is also possible that life developed , and if the rate of evolution was about twice as rapid as on the Earth then intelligent beings may have been among the organisms roasted to death as the Sun 's luminosity rose , the small oceans evaporated , and the CO 2 emerged from the rocks . |