Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] [verb] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this were so then these other clubs must have breathed a sigh of relief when City 's books were not produced . |
| 2 | It was alleged that the accounts should have shown a turnover of £2.19m and not £23.69m and that bills of exchange for £2.39m ( referred to as the ‘ Gimco ’ bills ) , included as ‘ bills receivable ’ , should have been treated as irrecoverable . |
| 3 | And talking about that — some readers may have encountered a research questionnaire in some copies of PFK recently . |
| 4 | ‘ The drivers must have had a shock . |
| 5 | EAT pointed out that ‘ a contract of employment can not simply be silent on the place of work ’ and that ‘ the employers were in business as contractors working at different sites ; so the parties must have envisaged a degree of mobility ’ . |
| 6 | It still seemed quite amazing the old traders should have chosen a route as totally inhospitable as this to make their crossing of the Himalayan barrier . |
| 7 | One of the guards must have made a substitution . ’ |
| 8 | — that in Newham each such client cost £92 a week less in the community , and in Ipswich £108 less ( even with Home Support Project input ) than in an institution , assuming that two-thirds of the clients would have entered a hospital and one-third residential accommodation ( see Table 3.5 ) . |
| 9 | After Alan Duff , very few teachers ' books would have stood a chance . ’ |
| 10 | Once Deano/Whelan/Wallace had built up an understanding then the goals would have come a lot easier . |
| 11 | Indeed , the Consultative Paper , para 9 , states that ‘ … it is envisaged that successful candidates will have demonstrated a knowledge of taxation at least equal to that required to pass the Associate examination of the IoT … |
| 12 | Sealstones and frescoes often depict cult scenes ; stone vessels were often intended for cult use ; the finest faience figurines were idols ; the metal and clay figurines and miniature double-axes were intended as offerings to deities ; the recurring marine motif on the pottery and in frescoes may have had a cult association with the worship of Poseidon . |
| 13 | … they meant well — they felt kindly towards him , and acknowledged his provocations ; but they fell into the too common error of supposing that the finer feelings , which induce a man to prefer death to dishonour , are only to be recognised among the higher classes ; and that , because circumstances may have placed a man before the mast , he will undergo punishment , however severe , however degrading … in preference to death . |
| 14 | Threat to insurers AS THE £1.1bn takeover bid by Australian Mutual Provident , Australia 's largest life insurer , gets underway for the Pearl Group , a new survey suggests that perhaps the Australians should have made a bid for a building society . |
| 15 | Rovers might have had a penalty after 29 minutes when Aldridge was felled by Prior but referee John Lloyd of Wrexham dismissed the appeals . |
| 16 | Yesterday 's high winds could have swept a poison cloud over Teesside in a matter of minutes . |
| 17 | The question for remoteness was whether the defendants could have foreseen a burn , not whether they could have foreseen cancer . |
| 18 | Sensible parents would have chosen a hill station near us , rented a house , and sent us every year to the same school . |
| 19 | However , if that election had been fought under some system of proportional representation then the Conservatives would have had a majority over Labour but would have been in a very substantial overall minority since the Liberals and Social Democrats would have held 160 or so seats . |
| 20 | A slash from Siban 's talons would have inflicted a wound which would have taken weeks to heal . |
| 21 | The details of this should not present problems since the parents will have kept a baseline already . |
| 22 | Howells left his station to score the first after 67 minutes , and by the time Teddy Sheringham had tucked away a second from the penalty spot — earned by the sheer stamina of Durie — Spurs could have had a couple more . |
| 23 | With all respect to my old friend , I believe my aims and basic purposes may have gone a mite deeper . |
| 24 | All the parties are in close and fairly intimate contact and there is no point in gratuitously annoying and antagonizing people — especially since the oracles may have made a mistake . |
| 25 | Although there was no common intention expressed by the parties at Geneva , he deduces their intention from the wording of the Protocol : the opening words of Article 1 of Protocol II , the fact that the rebels must have achieved a degree of organisation before the Protocol can be activated , and Article 6 ( 5 ) of the Protocol all demonstrate an intent to bind both sides to the conflict . |
| 26 | The testers might have got a clue from this that such a question was entirely artificial , constructed out of test situations and irrelevant to children who did not go to school and so were not used to being exposed to such tests . |
| 27 | It 's doubtful that the on-board DME was in error since there were two on board and the pilots could have suspected a malfunction were the readings substantially different . |
| 28 | Without it individuals would have had a choice as to which of the acceptable solutions to adopt . |
| 29 | In parallel with the manifesto or other commitments of incoming Ministers , Home Office officials will have prepared a list of such internally generated proposals as are ripe for implementation . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , uncritical acceptance of the results of classical twin studies may have misled a generation of researchers . |