Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] [adv] [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But there has that happened since that may well have changed all . ’
2 As for the certificate system whereby a parish acknowledged its responsibility to relieve holders who became chargeable while working in other parishes , that may well have helped industrial employers for they received the labour while the risk of having to relieve in cases of unemployment or sickness was underwritten by the parish of settlement .
3 More than one treaty is known to have been made with the Burgundians , although some may not have had imperial approval .
4 On the other hand , some may never have placed such emphasis on independence in their lives , or never felt that they had very much independence in the first place .
5 Interestingly 20 of 23 severe oesophagitis patients smoked or drank heavily and of those who claimed no such history one had scleroderma and another may not have disclosed full details .
6 A number of those involved were artisans from the Kentish towns , some of whom , particularly those connected with the cloth trade , may have had a special grievance , as a sharp decline in cloth exports after 1448 could well have caused local unemployment ( 66 , pp.96–7 ) .
7 As a growing proportion of the population escapes premature mortality to live out their natural life span , Fries ( 1989 ) argues that this need not mean adding infirm years to life .
8 This indeed was a factor in hastening the decay of villeinage , because a man who was free would not wish to incur servile obligations if he took possession of land which had hitherto been burdened with them .
9 Thus under s170(1) of CCA 1974 , the intention is to deprive breaches of the CCA 1974 of any legal consequences other than those provided by the Act , but this will not apply to separate civil or criminal wrongs .
10 This will usually mean encouraging greater leverage to allow the work to be performed profitably .
11 Some can also help to strengthen thin and weak hair whilst others help hair look fuller and healthier .
12 ‘ I suppose I might have ended up bowling up the hill into the wind at Headingley , and that might not have done much for my prospects , but generally the policy change was inevitable , and I am glad it happened . ’
13 Chapters 5 and 7 will especially try to address these issues .
14 This Act of 1806 may well have given young Ben the final push he needed : in that or the following year he packed his bags for good , waved his loving sisters a fond farewell , and set off for London , fame and fortune .
15 These will rapidly solidify to form small beads of glass , a type of solid with a disorderly molecular arrangement .
16 Yet since these can not have presented much of an obstacle , they were of little or no use against large and determined forces of men , against whom only walled towns and castles constituted reasonably sure places of safety .
17 Relics were also important in the contemporary French peace movement , being prominently displayed at the large and enthusiastic public gatherings organised by bishops in an attempt to improve the state of public order ; they possibly found similar use in England , where the national assemblies of Æthelred II may occasionally have resembled continental peace meetings .
18 While the former may relish the proposed new responsibility , the latter may actively resist releasing such a valued member of staff .
19 Further , many could not afford to undertake such pomp as they had neither the capital , credit facilities , stock , staff nor expertise ; some simply did not have the inclination to become involved .
20 The few managers of nursing who were around in the late 1960s , early 1970s will not wish to relive those experiences and yet unless alternative solutions are found quickly , the problem which prevailed then will soon be upon us again .
21 A company whose accounting period began on 1 November 1992 will therefore have to pay any s 419 tax due on loans made in the current account period on 14 November 1993 .
22 But , on this evidence , the 31-year-old former England international wo n't have to wait another ten months before linking up again .
23 Edward I may well have had similar goals for England , Aquitaine and Ponthieu ( a clearer definition of feudal obligations , a shortening of the links in the tenurial chain and a more precise knowledge of the military service owed to him ) but the means by which those ends might be attained were very different .
24 There was no reason why the existing staff of the institutions concerned could not have produced academic development plans …
25 ‘ Of Fort George I shall not attempt to give any account .
26 Those of you whose formative years encompassed the '60s can probably remember seeing Rolling Stone Brian Jones playing a Vox Teardrop guitar .
27 And that would n't have occurred that weekend on the Ropewalk if there 'd have been a proper programme , of empty emptying gullies .
28 We would have to win £100,000 a year to make the yard viable — and that would not include buying new horses . ’
29 To the rejoinder that he wear the gown showing his ‘ highest proficiency ’ he replied , ‘ Ah , well , 1 should not need to put any other gown in my bag than 1 usually carry ’ , by which he meant his night-gown , as ‘ that represents my greatest proficiency ’ .
30 In a rare fit of parsimony , theorists suggested that the dark matter already invoked to bring W up to 1 might also serve to make large structures .
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