Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think it must 've been hit by a car , ’ he said . |
| 2 | The Beach-heads hear they 've been cursed by a Swells SOTW |
| 3 | Well , those animals that did survive were treated at a number of animal shelters . |
| 4 | did n't enjoy being tossed in a blanket , |
| 5 | But I I do n't like being treated like a child ! |
| 6 | I do n't like being accused of a crime I did n't commit , cos I admit to things I do . |
| 7 | He was worried that a dairymaid might leave the dairy , and then her cows would not like being milked by a stranger . |
| 8 | I , do n't mind being used as a guinea pig because I feel that it 'll help people in the future . |
| 9 | The problems which those words can create are illustrated by a provision such as : If the Buyer fails to pay any instalment promptly in accordance with the terms of this contract the Seller may terminate the contract , recover goods already delivered and retain all payments already made . |
| 10 | Donoghue v. Stevenson may be regarded as a milestone , and the well known passage in Lord Atkin 's speech should I think be regarded as a statement of principle . |
| 11 | When can service be refused to a traveller ? |
| 12 | If Rutland was typical of agrarian society it would have been understood as a matter of course that most men were peasant farmers and smallholders ; indeed , husbandman was the commonest description there , followed by labourers and servants whose status was one of dependence , and landless peasants who did not conform to the stereotype of a society composed of small independent producers . |
| 13 | And he went to them , and he found that they had n't a clue what they 'd written , and he concluded , quite soberly , that they must have been visited by a Muse . |
| 14 | He suggests , for example , that instead of making a care order an interim care order should have been made with a view to reviewing the progress of rehabilitation in six or nine months time . |
| 15 | In a default action where the plaintiff 's claim is amended by adding or substituting a claim which could not have been made in a default action , the action continues as if it had been commenced as a fixed date action ( Ord 15 , r 2(2) ) . |
| 16 | Every order made in such a cause or matter by an English court , is an order in a criminal cause or matter , even though the order , taken by itself , is neutral in character and might equally have been made in a cause or matter which is not criminal . |
| 17 | Does he agree that his announcement today would not have been possible without the privatisation of the electricity supply industry , and could not have been made by a Government in hock to the National Union of Mineworkers ? |
| 18 | Or a similar division might have been made by a comma in [ 12 ] : [ 13 ] With a click , the discreet door shut . |
| 19 | He may also have been hit with a rifle butt afterwards.Joan Mann told the hearing that she understood there were several traitors in the Croat camp . |
| 20 | He must have been hit by a stone . |
| 21 | It could n't have been hit by a missile because we know there are no missile-carrying planes around — even if there were , a heat-seeking missile , the only type that could nail it at that altitude , would have gone for the engines , not the nose cone . |
| 22 | He could even have been hit by a car . |
| 23 | Thus , it appeared to be a curiously odd appointment to the District as the most active and successful Tutorial Classes already existed in Northamptonshire while there were large tracts of East Anglia where , from the WEA standpoint as a Responsible Body and as joint provider of Tutorial Classes with the Cambridge Board , much valuable work might have been undertaken by a university resident tutor . |
| 24 | Astley Cooper claimed ( incorrectly ) that the constitution of the College would not allow more professors to be appointed , although it is difficult to imagine that a course , ideally lasting three years and covering the health and diseases of all species of domesticated animals , could have been undertaken by a professor , an assistant professor and a demonstrator . |
| 25 | Of the pin placing at the 466-yard ninth , where the 144-strong field were a collective 114 over par , Woosnam said : ‘ Whoever did it must have been born with a spanner in his head . ’ |
| 26 | In the absence of truly definitive knowledge about Jesus , it seems to us more likely , more probable , more in accord with our experience of humanity , that a man should have been married and tried to regain his rightful throne than that he should have been born of a virgin , walked on water and risen from his grave . |
| 27 | Lee 's spontaneous remark could have been followed by a suggestion that he tried to sort the vans from the other vehicles in the garage , or he could have been encouraged to watch vans travelling outside the school . |
| 28 | On the one hand , arrest may have been followed by a term of remand and then imprisonment . |
| 29 | It is scarcely conceivable in the political climate of the time that the alternative would have been adopted as a matter of policy , but that it was avoided at the cost of serious reductions in the level of policing in much of the country suggests a conscious choice . |
| 30 | ‘ I think , ’ he said , ‘ that everyone might have been flung about a bit . |