Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [be] [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very heavy Syrian casualties would apparently have been deemed a lesser price to pay than the probable failure of anything less than what the general 's men say was planned : a full-scale armoured and infantry assault involving 40,000 men on five main axes along a 50-kilometre front . |
| 2 | But I do n't like being called a funking animal by a load of nonces who know nothing about me . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Making Their Mark ’ could equally well have been called a mixed exhibition ; but this is a term more often used for a show put on by an exhibiting society , that type of artists ' organisation whose importance in Europe was created by the middle classes , who sought in the eighteenth century to buy pictures rather than give commissions , as aristocratic patrons had been accustomed to do . |
| 4 | At first the glare from Lucifer — extending beyond Moloch 's ice-locked horizon , and reflecting from Belial high above — turned the depths of space into a flat black backdrop that could just as well have been suspended a few feet in front of her eyes . |
| 5 | Also , it later transpired , the scheme would have been doomed to disappointment , because we would n't have been granted the necessary planning permission for change of use . |
| 6 | Maidstone 's face displayed what could almost have been called a mischievous grin . |
| 7 | It would almost certainly have been given the same support by the full House had it not been attached to a Bill to reform obscenity law , with which it had no clear or logical connection . |