Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly their views may have been different from those of the people who died , but respondents are likely to have taken into account the reactions of their relatives and friends , and how these respondents felt about the care in the homes is also of interest and concern . |
| 2 | A spokesman admitted some personnel may have been unhappy with a process of ‘ radical ’ change , but insisted : ‘ The vast majority of people would not have recognised the description in that article . ’ |
| 3 | The initiating event in these three cases may have been technical , but the persistent fistulas are probably related to underlying Crohn 's disease . |
| 4 | Such cases may have been exceptional , but a great many servants seem to have passed their lives in households where their employers knew them by their functions , not their names . |
| 5 | Before the amendments made by the Copyright ( Computer Programs ) Regulations 1992 , there was no such provision although the courts may have been prepared to imply an appropriate term into a software licence where the making of a back-up copy was reasonably necessary to the use of the program in question . |
| 6 | The shire and hundred meetings may have been able to exercise some kind of control over this , although a king who allowed himself and his servants too much leeway would have been difficult to oppose directly . |
| 7 | Some faint impressions on the inside of the dermal skeleton suggest that at least paired nasal sacs may have been present ( unlike in modern hagfishes ) . |
| 8 | Although family health services authorities may have been oblivious to these activities , this does not indicate their absence . |
| 9 | Burgundians may have been involved in the crossing of the Rhine in 406 . |
| 10 | Such phenomena may have been present in three of our patints , in whom a slight bile acid malabsorption was found with the SeHCAT test , but in whom there was no increase in bile acid synthesis by the liver . |
| 11 | What functions the AD1 and flanking repeats may have is unknown but it is not unlikely that one or another of these repeats represent functional domains . |
| 12 | TIMES may have been tough in recent years but matters have come to a fine pass when this distinguished theatre feels obliged to assemble a posse of actresses and two actors to perform what is basically a rather vulgar sketch and present it as a front length drama . |
| 13 | Limited supplies of fruit and vegetables must have been available , while an abundance of natural fruits and nuts could have been gathered in season , for either home consumption or for sale in the local market . |
| 14 | The wife and the bachelor in the above cases should have been entitled to insist that the confusion be cleared up by a published clarification , but they should not have been able to obtain an award of damages against a newspaper which was not at fault . |
| 15 | It 's too late to argue now that the forms should have been available earlier . |
| 16 | A working week of over a hundred hours should have been ruinous for the libido , looking back . |
| 17 | In other words , foreign auction houses should have been able to start holding auctions in Paris in 1993 , and as the two big auction houses are much more powerful and widely expert than any French auctioneering partnership , the commissaires-priseurs had good reason to be frightened . |
| 18 | It appears that the scent of these oils can affect the etheric body , perhaps creating the right atmosphere for particular states of consciousness , and ancient peoples may have been aware of this . |
| 19 | Such looms may have been present in every household . |
| 20 | Fleischmann and Pons , who did not realise that they had measured their neutron signal incorrectly , thought that their cell was producing 10 000 neutrons per cm 3 of palladium each second ( in fact the totality of neutrons from cosmic rays , from the concrete in the laboratory , from radon and other gases seeping through the air vents may have been responsible for almost all of these and the fusion neutrons , if there were any , were far fewer ) , and so Jones ' data did n't appear very impressive . |
| 21 | ‘ Some of their success in attracting savings may have been due to people 's desire to save rather than spend and they are well placed to fund mortgages for those now planning to buy homes . ’ |
| 22 | Some readers may have been shocked that one professor of English should thus refer to another , but these are robust times . |
| 23 | Some of your readers may have been confused by a report of our work in Aberdeen University on oilseed rape allergies , and subsequent letters from a farmer and an anti-allergy campaigner . |
| 24 | ‘ And the police cars must have been OK . ’ |
| 25 | Hillsborough fans must have been surprised and delighted at the no-nonsense way their manager told Manchester United to get lost as they attempted to sign David Hirst . |
| 26 | erm the other view , of course , is that medicine should have become much more scientific and that these almost old wives remedies should have been disgraced and discontinued . |
| 27 | For Eleanor the contrast between her first and second husbands must have been immense . |
| 28 | As to apparatus , saws were evidently effective enough to cut nephrite into the relatively thin sheets from which many archaic jades were made , and bow-drills must have been available from the beginning . |
| 29 | Many readers must have been shocked , and therefore some delighted , by my first description of legal pragmatism in Chapter 3 . |
| 30 | He never could grasp the logic that to see Trevor it was obvious to the teacher that his own eyes must have been open . ’ |