Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] [verb] [prep] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not really like being touched by a stranger since I had been mildly attacked as a child , but something told me this was no casual greeting . |
| 2 | I would have preferred black pipework to white , for its unobtrusiveness but , more to the point , the hopper itself could have been made of a darker and heavier-gauge material . |
| 3 | it may have been referred to a higher court . |
| 4 | Southend have been struggling all season … just as well because Town could have been punished by a better team … |
| 5 | Southend have been struggling all season … just as well because Town could have been punished by a better team … |
| 6 | They may have been written with a wider audience in mind and are therefore easier to read than , for example , some of the accounting standards . |
| 7 | If the BRAC workers had collaborated more closely with the village practitioners , then the lobon-gur solution would probably have been placed on a better footing in the Bangladeshi villages . |
| 8 | Valentine Cunningham 's excellent study , British Writers in the Thirties , records that , in prolier-than-thou fashion , Calder-Marshall briefly signed himself Arthur Marshall , and had he continued to do so he would have been overshadowed by a later NSS contributor whose speciality was parodying schoolgirl fiction . |
| 9 | When the mare basins were excavated the fragmentary material beneath them must have been compressed to a higher density than before . |
| 10 | We are persuaded to think that some of these qualities must also have been shared by a wider spectrum of staff . |
| 11 | Unless and until scientists come up with a better way , the drug would probably have be administered by a catheter permanently inserted into the brain , a method currently used in treatments for inoperable brain cancer . |