Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Some of the attempts at peacemaking the churches in Ireland are making may seem worrying may seem politically subversive but how will we respond to the longing for peace to the desire for reconciliation for the hope the stakes that will result in a permanent and just solution ? |
| 32 | Making risk assessments while they were driving may have caused drivers to think about risks in the situations to a greater extent than they would have in the course of normal driving . |
| 33 | ‘ And what have your sisters been doing today ? ’ — The ‘ broth ’ would laugh , and while they were laughing would kick and pinch the two youngest under the table , — and while Ellie and Patsy were rubbing their bruises , steal the food off their plates . |
| 34 | The big stope up into which they were climbing would have appeared immense and would have eerily distorted the sounds in the mine creaking windlasses , rattling chains , voices , hammering , broken rock , the splash of water and the clatter of ironwork . |
| 35 | I think it is absolutely plain that there is no possibility , that any local authority wherever Paul were living would find it possible to that he should cease to be a statement in child , it is quite clear , I think , that he is bound to remain a child with a statement of special educational needs , in those circumstances any local authority would have the statutory duty to provide for his education , either at or somewhere else and in practice it seems to me there is no reasonable possibility of his being moved from after he has spent , will it be probably more than four years there perhaps five years there , that I think is not a possibility which has to be catered for . |
| 36 | Thankfully , there 'd been no traffic coming ; the concept of striking up an intimate — indeed potentially penetrative — relationship with the rocks on the far side of the road had been bad enough ; but even the prospect of a head-on with another lump of metal travelling at anything remotely like the sort of speed we were sustaining might have resulted in me making my mark in the most embarrassing fashion on the leather upholstery of the Bavarian macht-wagen . |
| 37 | The pub 's action would be more understandable if what you were wearing could cause offence to other customers , but it is hard to see how the item you describe could have upset anyone . |
| 38 | Most soldiers would have been only too happy to go over the top , as they no longer believed they would survive a war some were saying would last for ever . |
| 39 | ‘ The skills they were learning would range from skiing through to simple survival , ’ he said . |
| 40 | In a few moments the other participant in the sequence they were shooting would come , the estate agent from Sudbury . |
| 41 | The slamming of car doors and the revving of car engines late at night when customers are leaving would create a further disturbance . |
| 42 | just that the punk I 'd been watching would hold open a car door for somebody else , the new top operator . |
| 43 | Familiarity with the case , product or service you are discussing may make you blinkered . |
| 44 | Modern coaxial systems , of the kind that American firms are supplying can carry around 50 channels . |
| 45 | So I think we geologists should not be too bashful to theorise on the basis of purely geological evidence , and I can not avoid the conclusion that at least some of the enigmas I have been discussing may have an origin in the climate . |
| 46 | He predicted some future settlements for cases he is handling would top £1 million . |
| 47 | The linking of a church having good resources and experience with another which is struggling could provide a useful and manageable means of learning , and both churches would derive benefit from it . |
| 48 | The person who is tonguing could catch other infections from this activity , such as gonorrhoea . |
| 49 | Using these questions to monitor what is happening will help you spot conflict early and react to deal with it . |
| 50 | If we listen acutely enough , the person who is dying will tell us when the time is right . |
| 51 | Intervention of that kind is justified only when the occasions of intervention have been announced in advance so that anyone who is listening will hear and understand . |
| 52 | Wednesday night 's picking would keep as fresh as berries picked on Friday , even in the hottest weather . |
| 53 | Gandalf says as much at II , 99 , though he is laconic about it — ‘ I sat in a high place ( the great tree in Lothlórien ? ] , and I strove with the Dark Tower ’ — since Aragorn and the others he is addressing can have no idea what is being referred to . |
| 54 | Without the pounds , boats in passage might have to wait while the locks above filled with water , before the lock through which it is passing can fill . |
| 55 | In addition , any person with whom the child is living may apply for variation of any requirement in the order which affects him ( s39(3) ) . |
| 56 | In addition , the person with whom the child is living must allow the supervisor reasonable contact with the child ( para 8(2) ( b ) ) . |
| 57 | If a computer salesman claims that the computer he is selling will run a particular software package and this claim turns out to be untrue , it will be for the company selling the computer to show that any exemption clause it hopes to rely on passes the test of reasonableness . |
| 58 | If such covenants are mixed with negative covenants , which appear on the Register , or if they are contained in a document that is bound up in the certificate , they will be apparent , and a conveyancer acting for an original covenantor who is selling should peruse these covenants , providing in the contract for a covenant of indemnity against breach of any positive covenants by the buyer ( see below ) ; ( see special condition K , 34 ) . |
| 59 | Should this occur , a team which is relaxing may find itself out of earshot when their name is called . |
| 60 | For a person insensitive to visual impressions the pattern on the wallpaper he is buying may seem not to deserve close scrutiny ; but if the room he has papered begins after a while to depress him , it has turned out that the pattern was relevant to the choice after all . |