Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [vb pp] [to-vb] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 It is ironical that the Court composers should have had to wait for the establishment of the Commonwealth before their songs were published .
2 Riverside conditions such as that , must have continued to exist for a very long time , for when the Romans arrived and established — about A.D.47 — a settlement astride the River Fleet where it ran into the north bank of the River Thames , the River Fleet was about two hundred yards wide at that junction .
3 The Irish have been so busy praying for the winners that they must have forgotten to ask for the right weather .
4 He 'd have liked to plump for the Algarve but , he said wistfully , you do go over the £1,000 .
5 Bells played a prominent part in medieval life , and mechanisms for ringing them , made of toothed wheels and oscillating levers , may have helped to prepare for the invention of mechanical clocks .
6 She would have liked to go for a long walk past the charming wedding-cake buildings that lined the promenade , but although it was only teatime , it was already too dark to see anything .
7 Maggie could tell that he would have liked to stop for a chat , that he felt sorry for her left on her own , but she lacked either her grandmother 's grace or her mother 's energy , so she did not offer him tea .
8 Adam would have preferred to phone for a hire car but Lewis would n't hear of it .
9 But B of course if you did badly in those elections in May the government might have done badly in May , then morale would have been rock bottom of having to go into an election , he would have had to go for an election six weeks later or they 'd run out of time , yeah .
10 The advantage to the bank is that it has the use of a deposit for a fixed period , but , because of the flexibility given to the lender , at a slightly lower price than it would have had to pay for a normal time deposit .
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