Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv prt] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He might have pressed on but the sight of a group of hassling crows on a chalk slope below attracted him . |
| 2 | The answer , to be complete , should have stated the crimes for which the driver may be prosecuted ( manslaughter , causing death by reckless driving , or , in the magistrates ' court , driving without due care and attention ) ; it should have stated the requirements of each crime , so far as relevant ; and it should have pointed out that the burden of proving these requirements beyond reasonable doubt lies on the prosecution . |
| 3 | Huy noticed the dessicated corpse of a shrew which must have fallen in when the stuff was first poured over Neferukhebit . |
| 4 | Then you ask how it might have come about that the murderer made that mistake , and already , when eventually you tell of this from the other end , from the discovery of the corpse , you have got something that will require a reader to make a lateral jump to see what really happened . |
| 5 | It could not have come about if the Trust had ever said to itself ‘ it is time to stop growing ’ . |
| 6 | His hope had been that she might have moved on before the word got around , no chance for gossip and so no awkwardness , but his sense of firm control in that area seemed to have slipped away from him . |
| 7 | It must have closed down when the state police pulled out , abandoning these backwaters to the gangcults . |
| 8 | The letter was the standard letter that would have gone out if the claim had been entertained . |
| 9 | The letter was prepared but would not have gone out until the land had been seen . |
| 10 | By then all the stars will have burned out and the protons and neutrons in them will probably have decayed into light particles and radiation . |
| 11 | If the winding has an effective inductance L and resistance R , then at turn-on the phase current is : Transistor T2 must remain switched on until the phase current reaches its rated value ( VL/R ) at time t1 : The ratio D = VH/VL is known as the " overdrive " available in the circuit and Eqn . |
| 12 | Some groups of pieces may still form parts of the picture , but the more you shake the box , the more likely it is that these groups will get broken up and the pieces will be in a completely jumbled state in which they do n't form any sort of picture . |