Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [vb pp] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But as he looked at her innocent lips , he thought this pure child of nature could only have picked up the question from others . |
2 | Again this hope seems set against the tides of history , but again we can not be certain that a positive policy of Empire and tariffs could not have turned back the tide in 1902 or 1912 . |
3 | Once she had taken off her black suit and was lying in bed dressed only in her underclothes and dressing gown , she admitted to herself that she was so tired that she might not have lasted out the afternoon in court without fainting . |
4 | Let me try erm a straw poll on you and I 'm going to ask those of you , I 'll give you a moment or two , who would 've signed up the Maastricht Treaty and who would not have signed up the Maastricht Treaty if you 'd 've had a free vote ? |
5 | As he was never in contention , he will not have used up the sort of nervous energy expended by Chip Beck , who recovered the lead he had lost on Saturday to edge out Greg Norman and Mike Standly with a final round of 70 . |
6 | That the two were incompatible was clear by the late 1140s but this of itself would not have brought about the annulment . |
7 | A former 60-a-day-smoker , Mr McTear is suing Imperial Tobacco for damages , claiming he would not have taken up the habit in the 1960s had there been health warnings . |
8 | ( This should not be taken to mean that such psychopathological trends could not appear in individuals before the coming of cultivation or delayed-return hunter-gathering , merely that they would have been much less common and could not have taken on the collective , cultural significance which they did in the Neolithic and subsequent epochs . ) |
9 | The relevant circumstances were that : ( i ) the limitation terms had nut been negotiated by any representative body ; ( ii ) the buyers could not have discovered the error ( i. e. that the wrong seed had been delivered ) until after the crop was sown , whereas the sellers were in a position to have known ; ( iii ) the buyers could not reasonably have been expected to cover such a risk ( i.e. of crop failure ) by insurance whereas it was possible for seedsmen to cover their liability by insurance at a modest premium which would not have put up the cost of seeds by very much ; ( iv ) the error could not have occurred without some negligence on the part of the sellers . |
10 | Although the Schlieffen Plan , if faultlessly executed , might just have brought about the fall of France , in the event it failed because Moltke depleted , rather than strengthened , his right flank , and because , at the crucial moment , he lost his nerve . |
11 | But his assertion that a Scottish parliament should have some say over the siting on Trident nuclear missiles in Scotland brought an angry Mr Hughes to the rostrum : ‘ Let's not get dragged down the back alleys of stupid silly little constitutional issues which are doing this party no good whatsoever . ’ |
12 | If so , maternal antibodies would probably have mopped up the NFEs before their analysis , suggesting that the analysed cells are of a different type . |
13 | Apart from having a direct effect on the redistribution of income and wealth , the regulation of the capital market would also have slowed down the rate of economic growth and indirectly prevented large accumulation of capital by individual families . |
14 | The recent American tour , when Juliana 's new band were the support act , may well have screwed up the relationship , however . |
15 | I could surely have bluffed out the running ; it was the standing under the rod that was the important part , the critical part ; why had n't I realised that ? |
16 | Could n't have picked up the pen and opened the notebook and faced the blank page . |
17 | That 's no good at all , because when that goes the job stops and I do n't get paid off the grants people and the bank holds the deeds and , if I do n't forthcome with the grant money , then I will lose the house . |
18 | Bodies do n't get passed down the generations ; genes do . |
19 | But those who read his work , and might potentially have taken up the challenges it provoked , generally modified the project in ways that made it unrecognizable . |
20 | There 's another screech of brakes , and a van that should never have escaped out the scrapyard collapses shuddering in the road . |
21 | That is why I should never have delivered up the opening pages of my long-worked novel to that ten-per-cent moron with the art-school mind and barrack-room mouth . |
22 | But for the support of these societies the Cizek school could never have carried out the work that it is doing . |
23 | When we consider the essential role of susceptibility it becomes plain that the people who caught a cold in the bus were ‘ ill ’ before they ever stepped onto it , for if they had been healthy they would never have picked up the bugs in the first place . |
24 | A keen jurist — like Mr Lang — Mr Toubon forced the respect of the Socialist majority in National Assembly debates on legal matters and would happily have taken over the Ministry of Justice in the new Government . |