Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] [verb] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some may become trapped at new sites , extravasate , and form secondary tumours . |
| 2 | It was not the intention , of course , that all of this should come to pass at one stroke , nor is it clear that it can ever wholly come to pass . |
| 3 | The frosted glass panel with my name on it had been cracked , but that could have happened at any time . |
| 4 | By the end of the struggle France had lost almost every single colonial possession she had , so that French imperial history had to begin all over again in the nineteenth century , but nobody in 1690 could have guessed at such a result . |
| 5 | Only the better-off could afford to travel at more than a walking pace in eighteenth-century England — unless , that is , they had access to a riding horse . |