Example sentences of "[vb past] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The potential for what he became must have been in him all the time . ’ |
| 2 | Anyone who thinks they may have become liable to tax since they registered should tell their bank or building society to cancel the registration as soon as possible . |
| 3 | This dinner they planned must capture the living memory of every lucky guest . |
| 4 | With confused feelings , she smiled back , but she found herself staring in what she realised must seem a naïve display of stunned surprise . |
| 5 | DP , Stirling Assuming there are no complications you have not mentioned — for example , that the property is still in the name of someone else who left it to you in the first place — then the changes you requested should take weeks rather than months . |
| 6 | This was reflected in the criteria which the Committee recommended should trigger a labelling declaration . |
| 7 | The words I used may strike you as generous , or too romantic , but they are not inaccurate , merely inadequate . |
| 8 | He is not required to find out who was at fault , though it is possible that the explanation of why an accident occurred may point to errors or shortcomings on the part of particular individuals . |
| 9 | Still , in the cooking pot , and enlivened let's say with a dash of Cutty Sark or Christopher 's Finest Old Scotch , I do n't see why it should n't make out pretty well . |
| 10 | If the clause is the main unit of encoding then we would expect to find that almost all clauses in the speech corpus Beattie analysed should contain pauses , particularly in initial position . |
| 11 | In most cases , the environments , climates and conditions they encountered must have been very different from what they had known in Ayrshire . |
| 12 | He went on : ‘ The round-table negotiations that we proposed should include the Communist Party , the government and our union , and should agree on a new constitution . |
| 13 | Since the fire at the premises of the defendants was caused by their employee 's negligence , and since it was reasonably foreseeable that firemen would be required to attend the fire and that an explosion of the kind which occurred might result from the fire , the defendants were liable to the plaintiff . |
| 14 | Gradually , however , he realized that he could become a detective investigating his own past and that what he gleaned might have a bearing on the present . |
| 15 | His notion of what ( or even when ) the middle ages were remains extremely vague ; his conviction that the values they embodied could provide an answer to the Condition of England question was correspondingly intense . |
| 16 | It merely appeared to him a paradox worth someone 's attention : how a man such as Thorkel described could inspire what Thorkel undoubtedly felt for him . |
| 17 | A political interest , however , as Colonel Haldane demonstrated could overcome the opposition of powerful politicians , and the chief casualties were often the little people , like the unfortunate John Main , caught in the battle of interests . |
| 18 | Afterwards she fixed me a potion she promised would tone up my whole system . |
| 19 | Whatever I designed would have to take account of circumstances as they are for the hard-pressed teaching population . |
| 20 | ‘ The women he assaulted would think no one would believe their word against that of a respected doctor . |
| 21 | The amount of product we moved would fill 550 olympic-sized swimming pools . ’ |
| 22 | And this had implications for their motion : Because God is immutable , the bodies He created would remain in the same condition unless they were subject to external causes . |
| 23 | His strategy was that he spent big , to give the club momentum , once he had got us to the top , he knew we were living beyond our means , but hoped that the structure he created would maintain our position . |
| 24 | Whilst painting Avery , Minton scarcely spoke , but as soon as he stopped would say , ‘ Let's go for a drink . ’ |
| 25 | Time and again the Conservative politicians we approached would talk in private frankly and openly about the problems they foresaw for their party . |
| 26 | Placement support which at the least minimised the chances that the ex-patient would be evicted from his home or sacked from his job the first time a problem occurred would seem essential . |
| 27 | At this point worrying about the language we used would have inhibited us . |
| 28 | It is impossible to guarantee that anyone you invited will turn up , so you could try to guard against wasting your time and money by sending courtesy cars to pick up the more important people . |
| 29 | ‘ You think that these other people you mentioned will do me harm ? ’ |
| 30 | I have gone into such detail about individual patients to try to convince you first , that it can be misleading to categorize patients too narrowly into groups , and second , that the dual-route model I described can accommodate a wide variety of data from different individual cases . |