Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [vb pp] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had learned this at the very first lesson of the term — something most of the boys should have remembered from the previous year — when Mr Gillis had belted fourteen of us for setting off towards the door when the bell rang rather than waiting for his instruction . |
| 2 | It is not perhaps surprising that the source of substitution should have come from the traditional opposition group , the Bani Hashem . |
| 3 | the other side of th , you know , should have come from the other side . |
| 4 | He should have known from the first that the chasm which lay between them would not be so easy to cross . |
| 5 | He thought this one must have escaped from the National Theatre down the road . |
| 6 | This group must have separated from the ancestral flatworms at a very early stage indeed , long before the split between the molluscs and the segmented worms . |
| 7 | Although islands may be formed by a variety of processes , such as vulcanism , tectonic movements and accumulation , many of the world 's present islands must have resulted from the Post-glacial rise of sea level . |
| 8 | With some halls on campus and others off , you need to consider the pluses and minuses : the first eliminates travel time and expense but you may feel isolated from the wider community ; the second involves travel time and fares but provides more choice of shops and entertainment , with an escape from the enclosed campus . |
| 9 | Now one of the things you might 've seen from the corporate briefings is you 've got the budget figure and a forecast figure . |
| 10 | Erm , and the introduction of these forms of individuals erm might have arisen as the one passage that showed us might suggest , the passage from five seven on page three of her handout number eleven there , the need for forms of individuals might have arisen from the following . |
| 11 | Their ‘ look ’ changes almost imperceptibly ; between 1975 and 1985 for instance , a major style point can be seen in the daywear of the young ( 24-year-old ) yah female : in 1975 her swanlike neck might have risen from the neat collar of a Jaeger shirt with single strand of pearls and a scarf tied as cravat in attendance . |
| 12 | Repairs to the existing masonry were carried out in matching brickwork and the purpose-made joinery of new windows and external doors has been retained in its natural colour under a clear sealant , rather than being painted , which might have detracted from the mellow textures of the renovated building ( Plate 51 ) . |
| 13 | While he clearly believed what he was saying , and while his image might have faded from the general consciousness , Vitor d'Arcos was too commanding , too vital , too much the male sexual animal to ever be considered ordinary . |
| 14 | That herd was apparently shy , rather fierce and polled and it is possible that the Ardrossan was ancestral to the White Galloway , or its coat colour might have come from the other White Park herds in Scotland ( for example at Cadzow Forest near Hamilton , Blair Atholl in northern Perthshire , the Duke of Buccleuch 's estate at Dalkeith , the Cumbernauld estate or Cally Palace at Gatehouse-of-Fleet ) . |
| 15 | This I could have done from the Royal College — but it was Oxford I wanted — and to go to Somerville where I had a friend who told me about it . |
| 16 | This theory is quite untrue , as Mr Hughes could have discovered from the simplest textbook . |
| 17 | Some thought Labour would have had its ideal leader , a courageous genius in party management , and with a streak of inspiration in philosophy , if it could have bred from the two of them . |
| 18 | It was obvious that not all these people could have come from the upper classes . |
| 19 | I suppose I could have thought from the little he 'd said up until then that my half-brother was dead , or ill , or that something had happened to him , but I knew then it was something Eric had done , and there was only one thing he could have done which would make my father look worried . |
| 20 | Yet if they , or the possible abbatial vacancy , had any connection with the king , both may have stemmed from the unsuccessful attack which the Liber Eliensis records him as once having made on the monastery . |
| 21 | Prohibitions may have arisen from the social pressure directed against unorthodox behaviour . |
| 22 | Previous success with the original Minnesota smoking prevention programme may have arisen from the experimental classroom conditions under which it was taught . |
| 23 | This may have resulted from the natural shyness of these wives . |
| 24 | Juniper Green ( whose name may have originated from the floral emblem of the Murray family ) developed with an influx of specialised workers attracted by the growth of the mills . |
| 25 | The name may have derived from the old British , gala or gwala , describing a full or swiftly flowing stream , though some etymologists think it may be the Cymric gal , meaning ‘ scattered ’ . |
| 26 | They may have come from the inner chamber of the tholos tomb known as the Treasury of Atreus . |
| 27 | In the process of making them , did you meet any opposition apart from that which you said may have come from the medical malpractice fear ? |
| 28 | These are all offences of endangerment , in the sense that no harm need have resulted from the dangerous behaviour . |
| 29 | Retired STG employees and those retiring before privatisation or before the end of any transitional period will have their pensions provision fully secured so that they will receive the same pensions as they would have received from the Scottish Transport Group . |
| 30 | Settlement ‘ I would have thought that they would have learned from the public ridicule of the last month and made certain that they did n't get up to these things again , ’ he told the Press Association . |