Example sentences of "[vb infin] be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if , if you accept the ten percent owning the eighty percent , there must 've been enough but the poor are not getting it . |
| 2 | Oh Charlie shut her up at , at Chris 's mums funeral , when we went to Chris 's mum funeral , she 's erm , she said something or other about , request something or other about , pointing at the I should n't 've been there really because I did n't know her and Charlie said she felt did n't know her and erm she said oh well Rose never spoke about her , or words to that effect , Chris says the reason our mum never spoke about her cos she never showed her face in here anyway , he said when was the last time you see your mum , at that , she shut straight up like that , her face went , she 'd like saying that I should n't 've been there cos I did n't know her , I mean yet , she ai n't set foot in the house for fucking year like , you know she 's a horrible cow , and like when we went in the church , when we went in the crematorium er you had , she had a nice , big one up on the hill is it Arnold 's ? |
| 3 | Erm so in actual fact we 'd 've been there or thereabouts had we not made the budget assumptions that we did . |
| 4 | Some older people dread the idea of moving out of their own homes , while others would enjoy being near or actually living with their relatives . |
| 5 | You may find a stream , a cave , a factory , a prison you did not know was there but which insists upon itself as a landmark . |
| 6 | Fluid in the ears of children whose parents did not smoke was more than twice as likely to clear than fluid in the ears of those whose parents did smoke . |
| 7 | The question then arises , ‘ Would this fear be there if the individual concerned knew for absolute certainty that no-one will ever know that he is guilty ? ’ . |
| 8 | But , apart from that , the only flats she could see were still as small and impossibly expensive . |
| 9 | I ca n't ever remember being more than healthily hungry , nor can I ever remember coming home from school or play when my mother was not there to welcome us . |
| 10 | the thing with them , a bed with them , she 'll not come in now , and never come , no reason why not , cos I know she smokes so what does she do that we have n't to know , so I says oh I says this bed is n't gon na keep being here and no An no Angela in it |
| 11 | The teachers ' industrial action has limited this particular development , and the evaluators know of seven events which were either postponed or cancelled during the two years of the evaluation ; it is also probably the case that attendance at those events that did run was less than it would have been in happier times . |
| 12 | It may have been shortly after this that he served ( so J. Capgrave says ) in the Italian crusades launched against the enemies of Pope John XXII . |
| 13 | The cat may have been away but the mice certainly did not play in this TNT Gold Cup game at sunny Windsor . |
| 14 | This may have been partly because iron hulls resisted the vibration of the early engines better than wooden ones and also because fouling was less of a problem with continuous speeds and shorter voyages . |
| 15 | His promotion in 1644 to the important post of co-secretary to the new committee of both kingdoms may have been partly because he was already known to , and trusted by , its Scottish members , but also suggests more direct patronage . |
| 16 | Had they done that we have little doubt that the tribunal decision would have been otherwise than it was . ’ |
| 17 | It could hardly have been otherwise when Thatcher and Kinnock were visiting Moscow and Washington to discuss Britain 's defence policy . |
| 18 | Lord Denning said that the result would have been otherwise if the plaintiff had been e.g. hit in the eye by a shot from a negligent sportsman . |
| 19 | It would have been otherwise if he had covenanted to paint in the quarter " preceding the expiry or sooner determination of the said term " . |
| 20 | The decision would have been otherwise if no value had been assigned , as in the Irish Supreme Court decision in Flynn v Mackin [ 1974 ] IR 101 . |
| 21 | An understanding of this should have been well and truly introduced into the minds of children by the time they are old enough to play such games as those which simulate parental behaviour . |
| 22 | That would have been rather But I come out here but I can not see you know you can just just get them I seen some in that |
| 23 | It would have been physically and economically impossible for the whole of Africa , for example , to twist and turn its way out of the straitjacket that colonialism imposed upon its economies and industrialize to the point where it could compete effectively on the world market in the space of 10 years . |
| 24 | Such children will have passed along a string of carers and may have been physically and sexually abused . |
| 25 | What we are supposing is that everything could have been exactly as it was except for the non-occurrence of the smell of the candles . |
| 26 | He says he 's never seen anything like it ; he reckons some of the stuff must have been here since before the First World War . |
| 27 | In response to Frankish currency reform he began to mint new silver pennies in the 760s and 770s , when London emerges as an important royal Mercian minting centre , if not Offa 's principal mint ; it may have been here that his first coins were produced . |
| 28 | And it may have been here that a Staufen protest to the pope was drawn up . |
| 29 | ‘ He might have been here if you had . |
| 30 | On the other hand , if he had n't been so keen on interfering there would not have been any tension because she would not have been here or even in France at all . |