Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The recession may have made a difference in the sense that people are being more realistic about what they can afford , ’ said the magazine 's associate editor Fenella Willis . |
| 2 | Filling in the details on the marriage certificate may have proved a problem for Benjamin : his mother was now past hope in the workhouse , and his father had died when he himself was less than two years old . |
| 3 | If this interpretation is correct , then evolutionism may have played a role in promoting a greater awareness of environmental fragility mainly through its Lamarckian rather than its Darwinian version . |
| 4 | That two of his sons had fought for Parliament may have played a part in this transfer of loyalty . |
| 5 | If state officials perform a particular action , the elite must have had a goal which that action helps . |
| 6 | My mum must have had a seizure of something when she had me — ‘ Let's call him Lenworth ! ’ |
| 7 | If we found an object such as a watch upon a heath , even if we did n't know how it had come into existence , its own precision and intricacy of design would force us to conclude that the watch must have had a maker : that there must have existed , at some time , and at some place or other , an artificer or artificers , who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer ; who comprehended its construction , and designed its use . |
| 8 | Baseball may have become a parks game in Britian in recent years but now in Gloucestershire there 's a new name to put alongside the Chicago Whitesox and the Los Angeles Dodgers … the name on the shirt is the Gloster Meteors . |
| 9 | Sheriff Robert Younger told him : ‘ You are a first offender and perhaps your alcoholism may have played a part in these offences . |
| 10 | It 's believed a man who answered the advert may have aranged a meeting and then strangled her . |
| 11 | Fresden Manor should have become a centre for local children to study Roman history . |
| 12 | Attempts to avoid altered glycaemic control , which is a confounding variable , during the study might have masked a tendency for increased hypoglycaemia with human insulin , but since insulin doses did not change throughout the study this is also unlikely . |
| 13 | Even Phyllis 's racial prejudice might have had a touch of the humorous about it , if it were n't so offensive and pathetic . |
| 14 | Replacement of the eroded ragstone facing could have provided a problem were it not for the fact that the builder who was employed to undertake the conversion was dismantling an identically constructed church at Canterbury at the same time and thus it was possible to import salvaged ragstone from the demolition for re-use at All Saints and St Barnabas . |
| 15 | Politeness and kindness would have constituted a refusal . |
| 16 | First , had proportional representation been in force in 1983 , then the Conservatives would not have been able to form a government on their own and coalition would have forced a moderation of policies . |
| 17 | ‘ Do you reckon Steen would have found a replacement ? ’ |
| 18 | The abrupt cessation of homage without some alternative ceremony would have divided a kingdom into two distinct parts : those parts held by laymen , for which homage was owed to the king , and those parts held by clergy , for which homage was forbidden . |
| 19 | The electronics industry will have received a total of 5.7 billion ecus from Brussels between 1990 and 1994 , with additional money from national coffers . |
| 20 | On the other hand , the fact that some patients had already failed to respond to tricyclics before entering the trial might have introduced a bias against this class of drugs . |
| 21 | Another scientist might have proposed a modification in the optical theory governing the operation of the telescopes used in the investigation . |
| 22 | The access road , however , may not actually reach the boundary of the site and the original developer may have retained a strip as narrow as 1 m . |
| 23 | Long Latin words are full of syllables which resemble ‘ bum ’ and ‘ tit ’ and ‘ poo ’ much more , and an idly dreaming miniaturist may have had a thought process set off by half-reading the Latin : if in lege domini ( Psalm 1:2 ) really suggested the funny men made of legs on the opening pages of the Bardolf-Vaux and Ormesby Psalters , then this tells us that the artists , like Professor Camille , spoke English . |
| 24 | Queen Philippa died in August 1369 , and the removal of her influence may have hastened a deterioration in his character which became all too apparent in the 1370s . |
| 25 | Your own Home may have established a set procedure after death which you should follow . |
| 26 | The ice cream girl must have had a lie in this Sunday morning , and she arrived towards the end of the film showing prior to the interval . |
| 27 | If the origin of life were a probable event by ordinary human standards , then a substantial number of planets within radio range should have developed a radio technology long enough ago ( bearing in mind that radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second ) for us to have picked up at least one transmission during the decades that we have been equipped to do so . |
| 28 | The Waldron City Herald night editor must have had a fit trying to decide which one got the three inch banner . |
| 29 | This would mean that science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning , but that it could not predict how the universe should begin : For that , one would have to appeal to God . |
| 30 | As experimental and theoretical evidence mounted , it became more and more clear that the universe must have had a beginning in time , until in 1970 this was finally proved by Penrose and myself , on the basis of Einstein 's general theory of relativity . |