Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] [vb pp] for the " in BNC.

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1	Ellis believed that the women 's movement had taken a wrong turn in demanding equality with men in the public sphere and should rather have worked for the elevation of motherhood .
2	If hypertension has been neglected in the diabetic care of the past , lipids might not have existed for the attention they have received .
3	An amoral man applying a fixed morality to others might not have hoped for the success Surere had had ; but now , with so much ranged against him , in a world so different from the one he had lorded it in , Huy wondered how he would get on .
4	the multiplier was reduced from 15 years to 11 years to reflect the fact that the marriage might not have lasted for the whole of the natural life of the deceased .
5	The same man might well have worked for the Alkmaionidai in exile .
6	Sam 's song is simple and obvious , coming from ‘ the voice of a forlorn and weary hobbit that no listening orc could possibly have mistaken for the clear song of an Elven-lord ’ .
7	Now back at Jan Smuts Airport , X-Ray Foxtrot may well have flown for the second time in civvies by the time these words are read .
8	To the locals it was a wilderness they would rather have preserved for the hawks , the salmon and the mountaineers .
9	Had she not met Flynn , she would merely have asked for the farms to be restored to Maran Hill ; but the news from London made her too bold .
10	After all , if you had asked him , Boy would probably have said for the first time in his life , yes , thank you I am very happy .
11	Asked to predict the most likely site of synaptic plasticity , theoreticians would probably have opted for the interneurons , as these can clearly receive and modulate signals from many different inputs before dispatching them to varied outputs .
12	It would n't have done for the women to be met by his men .
13	They would never have done for the vicarage windows . ’

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