Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being able to integrate such datasets digitally has made it possible to generate prospectivity maps in a study of carbonate-hosted buried mineral deposits in the north of England . |
| 2 | No other wave since has deposited him in the river . |
| 3 | The affection I feel for you personally has led me , if anything , to understate it . |
| 4 | The commonest and most visible indices of field officer performance are negative , as an agency head explained : ‘ An area supervisor will sit there and say , ‘ So and so has let me down again . |
| 5 | Towards the end of his first letter to the Corinthians , Paul challenges the Corinthian Christians on the quality of their love , and in doing so has provided us with a bench-mark of quality as far as the practice of love is concerned . |
| 6 | The lack of detail in recalls made it impossible to adequately divide information into central and peripheral , however , in the sense that most information given was related to events on the road , the information which was recalled should probably be categorized as largely central to the task of driving . |
| 7 | All the commissions , and you only get paid I say only you get paid commission on the first year . |
| 8 | I should perhaps have made it a giant . |
| 9 | Also , once we started I 'd find it very hard to stop , and you may perhaps have forgotten I was due to race today ? ’ |
| 10 | There are ways of abasing oneself — though Prior Robert would perhaps have managed them with better grace had things gone otherwise ! — as a means of exalting oneself . |
| 11 | Swindle was too crude , for if the plan worked , no one would lose a penny ; all that would have happened was that a few banks would inadvertently have lent them money for an undefined period . |
| 12 | It agreed to the sale because a refusal would merely have delayed it until the six months ' residential qualification had been achieved by the co-tenant , the committee was told . |
| 13 | He must surely have supposed that Alpheus was shown in the southern gable-corner , Cladeus in the north ; and if the designer intended these figures for the rivers he would naturally have set them so . |
| 14 | Both writers and readers are affected by generally accepted ideas , without necessarily having given them independent thought . |
| 15 | True , she 'd escaped Fincara , but Fincara would only have bewitched her , not killed her . |
| 16 | But Jack did n't know that and , even if he had known , it would only have given him a false feeling of security , because the threat from streptomycin , when it came , was not of a hind that he could have imagined or foreseen . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’ |
| 18 | But in South African terms , and in terms of the diminished value of the Rand , the equivalent of £30 and £23 tickets would only have cost us R55 and R40 , then the allocation of the 1995 Rugby World Cup to South Africa would have made more economic , as opposed to rugby sense . |
| 19 | ‘ It would only have cost us 16p but banks should provide a service for the public and not make life difficult for them . |
| 20 | ‘ Just as well , you 'd only have annoyed him . ’ |
| 21 | It seems impossible that they could not have known where they were ; they can only have ignored it deliberately , and therefore perhaps for political reasons of their own . |
| 22 | He 'd only have wanted us to be happy . ’ |
| 23 | Is the contractor entitled to be relieved of responsibility on the basis that if the variation was going to be made in any event at that time , to have been further advanced in the contract programme would only have made it more expensive for the client ? |
| 24 | She has not cut herself off from her parents , however , as this is something which would only have led her to feel guilty and therefore decreased her confidence even further . |
| 25 | I 'm glad I did n't — it would only have shown us in a very discreditable light . |
| 26 | They would only have had you in as a last resort . ’ |
| 27 | Pulling at him would only have pulled him deeper into the weed . |
| 28 | That is to say no French government and probably no French political party at this time was willing to concede the principle of secession ; and the permanent loss of Indochina would obviously have made it harder to hold on to French North Africa and even to Black Africa . |
| 29 | I suppose , poor woman , she had been repeating this phrase for days on end to hundreds of us on our way out , and she would obviously have preferred us all to disappear down a big hole and relieve her of the tedium of wearing out her voice . |
| 30 | ‘ He 'd better have beaten me . ’ |