Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may perhaps have corresponded to the last creation of the world , for the Maya believed that the world had been created and destroyed several times . |
| 2 | Kirkman and Hendy , the Earl of Camden 's agents , may merely have responded to the College 's advertisement , but another explanation for their involvement seems possible . |
| 3 | ( His father 's occupation is particularly significant , because the invention of the mechanical clock must presumably have depended on the co-operation of the learned man , probably a monk , who first thought of it and the blacksmith who actually constructed it . ) |
| 4 | Ellis believed that the women 's movement had taken a wrong turn in demanding equality with men in the public sphere and should rather have worked for the elevation of motherhood . |
| 5 | Work on drilling more than 100 anchors should already have started by the time you read this . |
| 6 | Had that guess of 3% proved right , GDP should comfortably have expanded by the same amount . |
| 7 | If so , that Hidden Master must already have known about the hydra . |
| 8 | If oil-drillers can exploit organic molecules to manipulate the flow and drillability of mud , there is no reason why cumulative selection should not have led to the same kind of exploitation by self-replicating minerals . |
| 9 | He took a holiday he should not have done during the Gulf War crisis when this country was facing its greatest possible crisis . |
| 10 | No doubt the now dispossessed Kurds and the Shiites have been surprised to learn that they did something they should not have done in the interests of geopolitical reality . |
| 11 | Perhaps the argumentative Balbindor had been correct in saying I should not have drunk from the waterfall springing from the Other Side . |
| 12 | No , I should not have moved into the second Person . |
| 13 | If the hon. Gentleman 's attitude had been noted and acted on , we should not have got on the treadmill of nuclear arms escalation for the following 10 years . |
| 14 | At all stages the movement needs to be coached from the piano , but must always stay related to the recorded music . |
| 15 | And Daine must always have identified with the Napoleon of crime . |
| 16 | ( m ) The question of reliance It is not enough that the seller knows of the particular purpose of the goods sold , the buyer must also have relied upon the credit-broker or seller 's skill and judgment at the date of the contract . |
| 17 | Susceptible as Hardy was to intense emotional experience — one of his earliest memories was of being moved to tears by his father playing the violin — and to pretty girls , Emma 's attraction for him must also have rested in the circumstances of their meeting in a wild and beautiful setting , and in their mutual loneliness . |
| 18 | But a substantial part must also have resulted from the new investment overseas which was now being wholly financed by borrowing overseas at a very low real rate of interest . |
| 19 | Eve looked out of the window down the town , standing as she must often have done over the years . |
| 20 | Von Schlieffen had applied his fertile brain to this eventuality and had stipulated that , since any advancing Russian armies must inevitably become divided by the lakes , first one , then the other , was to be attacked by the full weight of German forces in East Prussia . |
| 21 | White 's build-up has proved the more effective and he should now have won with the simple 31 . |
| 22 | In June of that year Eliot met a figure from what must now have seemed to the London banker a remote part of his life . |
| 23 | And really he should really have gone across the face of the goal with it . |
| 24 | ‘ We should really have started at the foundry , ’ said Wilcox , ‘ since that 's the first stage of our operation . |
| 25 | Other problems obscure the issue ; whoever killed Alexander must surely have got to the ferry first , crossed the Firth of Forth , knew the route the King was to take , carried out their plan and got away , hoping the King 's companions would not discover this . |
| 26 | Or perhaps even that he and I together , in as filthy moods as we were , must n't have looked like the sort of people even a policeman should risk messing with . |
| 27 | I know I should n't have gone near the sea , but I did it as a protest . |
| 28 | Is it a new editorial policy that New Scientist will investigate the number and source of replies to advertisements within its pages and then print snide remarks about why the unsuccessful applicants should n't have applied in the first place ? |
| 29 | We should n't have met at the apartment . |
| 30 | I should n't have thought of the blinking . ’ |