Example sentences of "[vb infin] be [art] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have come to the conclusion , ’ said Betty , who had also been thinking , ‘ that the reason Beuno does n't marry is the same as the reason Elizabeth wo n't have children . |
| 2 | Otherwise you may aggravate something that , with a little rest and good management , could have been no more than a minor injury . |
| 3 | Or it may have been no more than a ruse to exert pressure and force him to reconsider . |
| 4 | Of course , this might have been no more than a diplomatic ruse by the Russians to initiate a dependence which would permit a later imposition of heavier tribute payments without negative results . |
| 5 | On waking , it occurred to her with renewed conviction that the experience of two days before might have been no more than a temporary aberration of an exhausted mind . |
| 6 | What this would have looked like is sometimes difficult to imagine — it may have been no more than a larger-than-average farmstead , or it may have been a palace such as those found at Yeavering and Cheddar . |
| 7 | This suggests that the fall in equity prices in October 1987 may have been no more than a correction to the market . |
| 8 | Veneers appear in the 1880s although an eighteenth-century example was discovered during the 1983–4 excavations at St Augustine-the-Less , Bristol , but this might have been no more than an attempt on the part of the coffin-maker to mask some splits at the shoulder caused by over-zealous saw-cuts when kerfing . |
| 9 | In the final analysis the entrepreneurial solution would have been no more than an evasion of the underlying causes of Nizan 's personal crisis of 1926–27 . |
| 10 | Some may say yes and some may say no and it will have all the appearance of a decision being made , but the real structure may have been no more than the bland question/answer relationship between the teacher-in-role and the class . |
| 11 | There would have been no more than the statutory redundancies . |
| 12 | The schoolboy tight-head fancied himself as a hard man and was intent on working Elliot who , in fact , was so immensely strong that the lad can have been no more than the most minor of irritants . |
| 13 | The pulse-receiver would have been no larger than a matchbox , probably receiving on something like 72.15 megahertz a signal sent from a small transmitter . |
| 14 | The enthusiasm for canal stock in the 1790s may have been the greater because the yield on Consols had not been very gratifying between 1784 and 1792 . |
| 15 | I wonder whether the umpire 's attitude would have been the same if the offender had been his opponent , the comparatively unknown Grant Connell . |
| 16 | This conclusion is devoid of party political implication ; the situation might easily have been the same if the parties in opposition and government had been transposed . |
| 17 | Would the result have been the same if the original agreed price for the carpentry had been a fair price ? |