Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] in the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , in theory , all should have kept in the same condition as when first stored . |
| 2 | Any man who had to endure what you endured might have reacted in the same way ’ ( our emphasis ) . |
| 3 | They might have sat in the same prison cell as he was sitting in now . |
| 4 | Well okay this morning what I 'd like to do in the half hour or so that we 've got before lunch is to talk about the skills we need when we actually come up here to deliver then this afternoon we 'll look at that feedback from the video and what you did and then we 'll move on to the skills of design , the preparation skills . |
| 5 | It used to make me really mad because some of me brothers and sisters used to get put in the same homes together , but I was always on my own . |
| 6 | Many of the tenants buying would have remained in the same houses , so there would not have been ‘ voids ’ for allocation in any case . |
| 7 | The proposition is that had these four countries remained outside the EC , their intra- trade in manufactures would have developed in the same way as their extra-trade . |
| 8 | If in refusing , he acted as a reasonable man would have done in the same position , because he entertained the same fears , having regard to the character of the proposed assignee , etc , the real purpose of the assignment , the effect of the assignment on the property or other property of the landlord , etc , the refusal will be upheld as reasonable . |
| 9 | The real problem is that there are situations where negative pecuniary externalities exist , and this means that co-operative R&D ventures may end up doing less R&D than independent firms would have done in the same setting . |
| 10 | I tried to work out what my father would have done in the same circumstances and came to the conclusion that he would have taken what he so often called ‘ a bold step ’ . |
| 11 | We can imagine that , if we believed what the Calvinists believed , we would have behaved in the same way . |
| 12 | I would have behaved in the same manner , but I would not have apologised to a man who had just given such a small sentence for the criminal act of killing two innocent victims . |
| 13 | A director of social work in another part of Scotland , consulted about the actions his authority would have taken in the same set of circumstances , said that before even considering removing children from home , he would have consulted family doctors . |
| 14 | In explanation Van Valen put forward what he termed the Red Queen 's hypothesis , named after the Lewis Carroll character who found it took all the running one can do to keep in the same place . |