Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv prt] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell you another thing that amazes me , how any one with a Sovereign right , were a Sovereign in those days , could have given up the palace of Westminster which is so beautiful , palace , together I suppose reigned after the Duke of is it ? |
| 2 | Or in North Africa , having left the 11th Field Regiment , he might have sat out the rest of the war in luxury , gaining rank through time and , come the Peace , have been a live major instead of a dead lieutenant . |
| 3 | A COMPUTER blip could have messed up the statements of millions of credit card customers , it was revealed last night . |
| 4 | As he was never in contention , he will not have used up the sort of nervous energy expended by Chip Beck , who recovered the lead he had lost on Saturday to edge out Greg Norman and Mike Standly with a final round of 70 . |
| 5 | Apart from having a direct effect on the redistribution of income and wealth , the regulation of the capital market would also have slowed down the rate of economic growth and indirectly prevented large accumulation of capital by individual families . |
| 6 | Although the Schlieffen Plan , if faultlessly executed , might just have brought about the fall of France , in the event it failed because Moltke depleted , rather than strengthened , his right flank , and because , at the crucial moment , he lost his nerve . |
| 7 | The trio were modifying the trolley with implements they must have brought in the pockets of the golf-bags . |
| 8 | But there is little civic pride in Maan that its actions should have set off the train of events . |
| 9 | But his idea of a merger was quite different from the Allied proposal , which would have ruled out the possibility of a provisional French government and subordinated de Gaulle to Giraud . |
| 10 | The relevant circumstances were that : ( i ) the limitation terms had nut been negotiated by any representative body ; ( ii ) the buyers could not have discovered the error ( i. e. that the wrong seed had been delivered ) until after the crop was sown , whereas the sellers were in a position to have known ; ( iii ) the buyers could not reasonably have been expected to cover such a risk ( i.e. of crop failure ) by insurance whereas it was possible for seedsmen to cover their liability by insurance at a modest premium which would not have put up the cost of seeds by very much ; ( iv ) the error could not have occurred without some negligence on the part of the sellers . |
| 11 | However , the payments were paid out regularly and if one were to apply the normal UK rules those payments would have taken on the form of income ( see Brodie 's Trust Deeds v IRC ( 1933 ) 17 TC 432 ; Jackson 's Trust Deeds v IRC ( 1942 ) 25 TC 13 and Postlethwaite v IRC ( 1963 ) 41 TC 224 ) . |
| 12 | Given half a chance she 'd have taken on the job of finding a soul-mate for Shannon with all the crusading zeal of a missionary , since she was blissfully convinced that true happiness could be found only in a strong relationship such as the one she had . |
| 13 | A keen jurist — like Mr Lang — Mr Toubon forced the respect of the Socialist majority in National Assembly debates on legal matters and would happily have taken over the Ministry of Justice in the new Government . |
| 14 | In the absence of deep-rooted democratic institutions which could have held back the force of aggressive nationalism , local groups took the form of mere channels through which the idea of the nation as an integrated family could be reproduced . |