Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] [verb] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stated that in New York , regarding practical experience , the only bodies that trainee embalmers could obtain were unclaimed ones which had been refrigerated for months , and not just a few hours old , as is the popular myth in this country . |
| 2 | ‘ To have banned him for a few months would have been one thing , but to take him to court and ban him for life seemed to defeat the object of the exercise . ’ |
| 3 | These Hittites may have been early migrants from the Hittite Empire in Turkey ( founded about 1800 BC ) . |
| 4 | Although the quantities are different , the source , fall-off curves and distribution of greywacké whetstones ( black dots ) and the neolithic axes are very similar , emphasising how the source of stone for the whetstones may have been glacial erratics . |
| 5 | The idea was for them to place special devices at these loci -devices that the regular maintenance crews would think were innocuous parts of the complex of delicate wiring . |
| 6 | Robert Olivier suggests that the first tame elephants may have been orphaned calves reared as pets . |
| 7 | Besides , there is good evidence that the crocodiles of that time were much faster-moving reptiles than their dinosaur contemporaries — indeed , the ancestors of modern crocodiles may have been nimble land-animals , since to this day crocodiles have an ankle structure typical of a rapid terrestrial carnivore . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | After recording a verdict of accidental death coroner Nicholas Gardiner said it was known that the seats should have been rear facing but he did n't think this would have affected the outcome . |
| 10 | Which means that from Slains they took some old route perhaps across the Moss of Cruden , then crossed where the A92 runs now , and from the modern A950 , or a comparable road , went up to Strichen through the Forest of Deer : today 's byroads may have been old lanes or drovers ' trails . |
| 11 | It could well be that some of the summit surfaces of the Hercynian blocks are Eogene pediplains , while the weathering responsible for the formation of tors may have been tropical weathering of the same date . |
| 12 | During recent times , the main goal of many firms may have been long term survival . |
| 13 | To justify his view that there are ways in which things might have been different while at the same time avoiding voluntarism , Poulantzas argues that there are two sources of valid counterfactuals . |
| 14 | Both ranges might have been independent structures , though excavations between them suggest a more complex L-shaped building with a courtyard to the rear and a timber colonnade along the frontage . |
| 15 | The spread is measured in " ticks " ' with each tick equal to %; and whereas , prior to October 1986 , a typical spread for short-term bonds would have been 2-4 ticks ( the lower for the more liquid stocks , the higher for the less liquid ) it is now 1-2 ticks . |
| 16 | ( A century earlier these figures would have been 11 years and 10 years . ) |
| 17 | Patients in their study initially had no clinical or echocardiographic evidence of heart disease and they suggest that the QT interval abnormalities may have been early indicators of alcohol-induced myocardial toxicity . |
| 18 | Those with a proportion of gold amounting to from a quarter to three quarters must have been intentional alloys . |
| 19 | But it raises the question whether a celebration of the sciences might have been one means of differentiating Protestant cultural values from those of Roman Catholicism . |
| 20 | But taking out big sums would have been commercial suicide . ’ |
| 21 | Hedgerows produced berries , fruits , and herbs : the lore concerning these products would have been common knowledge in former times when they were more widely used . |
| 22 | It is easy to be alarmed by something which one imagines does not happen to other people and which one 's family and friends may suggest is pure imagination or , worse still , the first sign of madness ! |
| 23 | Knowing where assessment procedures might buckle is one thing . |
| 24 | Metaphysics would have been one way out , but he ca n't take that , so the alternative is to be a persecuted prophet . |
| 25 | Many of his cabinet members will have been nominal party people rather than loyal servants over many years , as would be the case in Britain . |
| 26 | An anonymous telephone call to the police must have been one option ; but that seemed unlikely because in that case the police would already be here . |
| 27 | It begins to look as if the graptoloids could have been free-floating animals , of a kind without any living counterpart . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | There were times when Blackadder allowed himself to see clearly that he would end his working life , that was to say his conscious thinking life , in this task , that all his thoughts would have been another man 's thoughts , all his work another man 's work . |