Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In January 1644 , assessed at £1,000 , he pleaded for a mitigation ; his lack of money may have been due to personal extravagance at court as much as political troubles . |
| 2 | In three men gastrectomy may have been the cause and in two poor nutrition may have been responsible . |
| 3 | Hence , even if the correct word was not in the lattice , it is very possible that an incorrect word belonging to the same syntactic category may have been present instead . |
| 4 | The greatest rock'n'roll band tag may have been uncomfortable to live with in the past , but this album will not make the title any easier to shift . |
| 5 | Serafin may have been Russian , may have disappeared back to Russia . |
| 6 | The Queen 's Press Secretary , Charles Anson , has apologised to the Queen and the Duchess of York for a row after the announcement of the Yorks ' separation which suggested that the Duchess may have been unsuitable for Royal life . |
| 7 | The regulations which a licensing board may make are concerned with procedure only . |
| 8 | The significant results achieved using this text may have been specific to this domain and hence not necessarily repeatable in other domains ( i.e. the OALD may provide unusually good coverage of commercial or financial terminology ) . |
| 9 | Protagonists of unity may have been despondent about the loss of the EDC and the European Political Community , but were not routed . |
| 10 | Judge Lifland 's decision may have been right . |
| 11 | The decision may have been harsh , however , because it appeared he had not heard the whistle . |
| 12 | The continuance of large-scale English resistance may have been unlikely , but there were sources of danger to be neutralised . |
| 13 | While not present at an event , the writer may have been able to use his own detailed sources which are no longer available — or the writer may have relied on hearsay . |
| 14 | This tough process , it was realised , did not accord with their own equal-opportunities policy , in that candidates for paid advice workers ' posts were given only an oral interview , even though their job description may have been identical to that of a voluntary advice worker . |
| 15 | This is because the profit function before the change must have been horizontal at the optimum , so a small change in the optimum price will make only a marginal difference to the firms ' profits . |
| 16 | That patience must have been well-schooled here , and I would need lots of it myself if I was to follow her tracks from card to cryptic card through all the boxes . |
| 17 | The noise must have been awful but it was sweet music to my ears . |
| 18 | The latter might well have suffered from an increase in continentality of climate following regression , but it has not unreasonably been assumed by most palaeontologists that a planktonic group such as the globigerinid foraminifera should have been indifferent to what was happening to epicontinental seas . |
| 19 | Something of the kind must have been operative when Galileo first introduced the telescope as an instrument for exploring the heavens . |
| 20 | Anselm found this retreat difficult to accept ; after his own loyalty to the terms of the papal decree , the pope 's vacillation and suggestion of over-reaction on Anselm 's part must have been hard to swallow . |
| 21 | With intelligent programming , the computer should have been able to recognise either that this particular customer needed an overdraft or that he has probably just become redundant and that mortgage repayment might soon present a problem . |
| 22 | The fact that Gorbachev sent the old Stalinist Andrei Gromyko to perform the pinning on of the award must have been scant compensation for what Ceauşescu probably saw as a badge of his growing servitude to Moscow . |
| 23 | it appeared to me little short of a miracle that a hard , matter-of-fact scientist should have been able to establish a real friendship with wild , freeliving animals , and the realisation of this fact made me feel … as though man 's expulsion from the Garden of Eden had thereby lost some of its bitterness . |
| 24 | Their watch must have been asleep ! ’ |
| 25 | After this double success hope must have been high that a solution in the case of the general quintic would soon be forthcoming . |
| 26 | Her enthusiasm must have been convincing , however , as Bill threw back his head and laughed . |
| 27 | Seb should have been overjoyed at the news that Anna was not to marry the educated young gipsy , but he knew that unless Boz explained it to her — preferably in a more diplomatic way than the manner with which he had just broken the news to Seb — she would be devastated . |
| 28 | However , the collection of this variety must have been considerable : Collinson noted on the back of a print of the Magnolia grandiflora flower in his copy of Catesby 's Natural History of Carolina , that there were twenty-nine of these trees at Goodwood in 1759 , two of them twenty feet high . |
| 29 | Mr Bond has been threatened with receiverships , the loss of boardroom control at his key Bell Resources company , failure to secure sale of the breweries , share suspensions , disclosure that a former employee may have been involved in telephone bugging and the final indignity of a derisory A$53 million bid from rival Kerry Packer for his TV interests . |
| 30 | The demise of the Civil Service Department may have been due to a feeling by ministers that it was too conscious of the interests of staff . |