Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may or may not be able to do that because it may have lost consciousness , alright , but we 'll put down warm drink if possible . |
| 2 | The eruption which probably had the most far reaching effect on civilization was that of Santorin ( Thera ) in the Aegean , in about 1470 B.C. This abruptly extinguished the highly-developed Minoan culture centred on Crete , and , because the eruption caused the submergence beneath the sea of a large part of the island of Santorin , it may have given rise to the age-old legends of Atlantis , the ‘ lost ’ or ‘ drowned ’ continent . |
| 3 | You take your moistened paper it should n't be dripping wet like this , it should have had time to dry out a bit . |
| 4 | This I 'm pleased to say is being done , a meeting has been arranged with British Aerospace , it should have taken place on Monday er Mike was deputizing me at that meeting and I 'm waiting to see what the outcome of that meeting is . |
| 5 | The respect the government accorded them was correspondingly limited : it was significant that among the great civil reforms of the reign that of urban government should have been left until last , and that when enacted it should have concentrated power in the hands of a very narrow élite . |
| 6 | It must have worn Christy out . |
| 7 | To him , it must have seemed ice cold , indifferent . |
| 8 | It must have hurt har because she was a-bloring good tidily ; bloring out . |
| 9 | It must have had occult properties , |
| 10 | See it might have reached temperature before I mean I do n't know , I ca n't do a |
| 11 | The Office of Fair Trading scrutinised the bid because it might have affected competition in the UK towage industry . |
| 12 | In some cases it might have been irrelevant because companies would have decentralized anyway ; in others it might have enabled decentralization or , in combination with other factors encouraged it ; in some cases it might indeed have been the single most important immediate consideration . |
| 13 | The Seville Junta behaved with criminal selfishness and , but for the moderation of its general , it might have declared war on Granada ; it refused to send the Andalusian Army to the critical Ebro front where the French , after Joseph had withdrawn from Madrid in the panic caused by the defeat of French corps by the patriots of Bailén , were massing for a reinvasion of Spain . |
| 14 | OSF says it 'll have completed technology selection by July 1 . |
| 15 | If Labour had accepted PR , and the possibility of an agreement with the Liberal Democrats to introduce it , then it could have ensured defeat for the Conservatives by giving the Lib Dems a clear run in as few as 20 seats . |
| 16 | John Seer , who 's Fire Protection Officer at Oxfordshire 's Fire Brigade , says had the dump been set alight it could have endangered life . |
| 17 | In other words , the DTI had failed to understand fully its own legal powers with which it could have put pressure on Barlow Clowes . |
| 18 | It could have resisted payment , and the revenue had no means other than the taking of legal proceedings which it might have used to enforce payment . |
| 19 | The tragedy is , we 've done nothing about the exclusive reliance on interest rates , we 've done nothing about the continuing erosion of jobs , and particularly so in the regions , er and this government has er wasted the summer months ; when it could have taken action it has merely compounded the problems that are of it 's own creation in the mismanagement of the economy . |
| 20 | Had Germany been unified in 1989 , it would have stayed top . |
| 21 | ‘ Instead of a pay freeze for Ministers , it would have made sense to put them on performance-related pay , so that if this statement does n't work , they do n't get paid at all , ’ he said . |
| 22 | And she had no intention of telling him just what she did think of him , not that it would have made sense , anyway — either to him or , more importantly , to herself . |
| 23 | It would have made sense for the Government to include this measure in that Bill so that it could be dealt with at the same time . |
| 24 | It would have made life very uncomfortable . ’ |
| 25 | Yeah , but , I mean I was just , erm , I found that very informative as well , I was very disappointed that if that much money er , information was available that we were not given it as members , because it would have made decision making far more sensible , but erm , |
| 26 | A year ago it would have made headline news . |
| 27 | Otherwise it would have written geography on there ! |
| 28 | I just thought it would have saved time . |
| 29 | A few weeks ago it would have scored claw marks on her heart . |
| 30 | Property developers welcomed the decision , arguing that had the register gone ahead , it would have blighted land values across the country , particularly in the ( once heavily-industrialized ) Midlands , and would have depressed efforts for regeneration of run-down urban areas . |