Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rigid adherence to the letter of their instructions by commissioners can only have served to obscure important aspects of the structure of landholding . |
| 2 | Paul 's verdict : Bags have been around a long time now and Rohan can justifiably claim to have prompted other companies to come up with versions of their original . |
| 3 | Mind , I can always claim to have had running water at Low Birk Hatt but it did happen to be a stream some way down the meadow . |
| 4 | Not that he could ever have afforded to buy those kind of designer clothes on his meagre wage but with the money he had received to throw the American and his beautiful assistant , or rather partner , off the scent he had been able to splash out for once in his life . |
| 5 | I turned away from the scars near Warrendale Knots and dropped down by Middle High Hill to Settle and lunch at the Naked Man where the nicest ladies you could ever wish to meet serve real Yorkshire food , and plenty of it . |
| 6 | The necessary analytic underpinning for the consensus was the belief that the state could manipulate the economy to achieve these goals , most importantly that it could always change spending to ensure full employment . |
| 7 | It would also need to try to provide wider privileges than are at present open to Members of the University Convocation . |
| 8 | ISAAC ASIMOV , who has died in New York aged 72 , was best known for his works of science fiction , a genre in which he reigned supreme , but he could also claim to have written more books about more subjects than any other author . |
| 9 | I 'd probably have had to compensate that bloke if you 'd broken it , and professional photographic equipment costs a devil of a lot , you know . ’ |
| 10 | Hence , they might both have expected to receive considerable support from such sources . |
| 11 | Possibly the widening class-consciousness of militant trade unionism within the Edwardian working class , especially considering the number of players from mining origins , may also have helped encourage this flurry of ‘ industrial ’ action . |
| 12 | A declining agricultural workforce may also have helped to convince local interests there was no real demand for rural council housing . |
| 13 | This would have encouraged chemical interaction between the gases of the Earth 's early atmosphere to form organic molecules — although , to be sure , it would also have tended to break those molecules apart once they had formed ! |
| 14 | It could also mean having to import larger volumes of special grades of coal those sites produced . |
| 15 | But here too there is a danger of distortion : occupants who were very poor but lived in a house with masonry foundations , surrounded by heaps of discarded food debris , and who used poor quality pottery ( fragments of which would survive ) might well appear to have had better living conditions than the richer occupants of a site who lived in a large timber-built house , using high-quality wooden and leather vessels ( which would not usually survive ) , and were able to employ servants to remove debris from the immediate vicinity of the house . |
| 16 | In short , it gave me ‘ back-bone ’ ( which you may well break attempting to clean these windows ) . |
| 17 | He had been a reluctant ally and may well have resented playing second fiddle to his younger brother . |
| 18 | She had no idea why he had telephoned her , though she did n't put it out of the realms of possibility that , having gone away when he 'd promised to think about the interview , he might well have rung to suggest some alternative . |
| 19 | By building up an army of individual shareholders the Conservatives may well have expected to gain political support . |
| 20 | They have they have t why should they even have to contemplate taking this type of industrial action ? |
| 21 | And she might even have managed to survive that sort of difficult scenario if it had n't been for the alarming , almost intimidating atmosphere engendered by Ross . |
| 22 | They might at least have stayed to offer moral support ! |
| 23 | Had this been a function for Chedworth , one might at least have expected to find suitable tools . |
| 24 | Games can be non-threatening be fun to play indicate clearly to the children that a different kind of thought process is going to be required of them in the drama session introduce collaborative ways of working focus and channel energies which might otherwise become distracting create useful opportunities for the teacher to assess the mood and interests of the class . |
| 25 | The regime perhaps had little choice but to win support by making grants of land which might otherwise have gone to augment royal resources , and Mortimer and Isabella rapidly ran through the very substantial treasure inherited from Edward II . |
| 26 | I would definitely need to try to find some help from somewhere . |
| 27 | I 'd certainly like to have played one-day cricket , as I always got on with it . |
| 28 | ‘ After what happened to Flavia , he would never have risked injecting illegal penicillin into you . |
| 29 | If we thought that a funding council would be entirely inappropriate , we would never have agreed to include such provisions in the Bill . |
| 30 | If the dinosaurs and thecodonians were superior to the types that went before them , they may never have had to demonstrate that fact . |