Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the institution I visited may not have been entirely ‘ typical ’ — indeed , was in a state with a relatively good record on prisons — the above observations highlight some of the difficult issues facing penal reformers in India . |
| 2 | It stopped being a dream and began to be what I pretended could really happen . ’ |
| 3 | The explosion was a direct consequence of the breach of duty , therefore the damage was not too remote , although the kind of property damage that occurred could not have been foreseen . |
| 4 | That 's been dropped too , because the GaAs semiconductor house CDC used could only get a yield of 2% good parts . |
| 5 | Many of the rooms he found would not do . |
| 6 | This was done from affection or duty or in the certain knowledge that those who helped would someday need similar help themselves — as a form of insurance . |
| 7 | Now that type of exception would mean that the practical difficulties to which he referred would not arise except in the comparatively few cases that arise of the particular type . |
| 8 | The new packages you mentioned will certainly help . |
| 9 | Caroline had a friend called Jocelin who visited No. 45 , and who it seemed might even decide to live there . |
| 10 | All those we interviewed could n't speak too highly of him ’ . |
| 11 | Surely United could n't do it , and in the eighty seventh minute , Paul Simpson ran clear and he shot home from close range . |
| 12 | On the state of the evidence at the moment , it may well be that there will be a request for to withdraw the case from the jury on the grounds that no reasonable jury properly directed could conceivably find er a anything other than reasonableness in the police acting upon the information they had and that 's for me to decide . |
| 13 | So Anglam had been effectively entirely in American hands : they sent the trainees probably nominated the lecturers and when the time came could quietly pull out pleading changes in the American scene which the British directors could n't challenge . |
| 14 | It was a picture which Wayne believed would finally stretch him as an actor . |
| 15 | However , the final epoch of history , the communist or socialist society which Marx believed would eventually supplant capitalism , will not result from a new force of production . |
| 16 | None of these military and diplomatic successes for Charles V was in itself a reason for the renewal of war in 1369 , though they strengthened his hand and were an indispensable preparation for the war which Charles believed would eventually reopen . |
| 17 | Seb had an ache inside him caused by Anna that he believed would never leave him . |
| 18 | 1.11 In Roberts v Sparks [ 1977 ] CLY 2643 , where the plaintiff was thrown out of the defendant 's vehicle , the court reduced his damages by 25 per cent because the injuries he suffered would clearly have been avoided by wearing a seat belt ; but it added back 5 per cent for the injuries he would have suffered if he had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 19 | Does that mean the second life assured ca n't have it ? |
| 20 | The sample was made up of people whom they judged would probably have been long-stay residents of Powick if that option had continued to be available . |
| 21 | Typically , project acquisitions could not be distinguished on the shelves or if they could , most of the people we asked could not show us which they were . |
| 22 | We saw how it was with the plants and the seeds , and the birds and their eggs but the animals God made could not make nests and lay eggs , because they were so much larger . |
| 23 | As his reputation went before him like a brass band in front of a carnival , from the age of twenty no woman he met could possibly have been unaware of it . |
| 24 | Lawrence also makes it clear that it is no less irrelevant that what happened may also have constituted the offence of obtaining property by deception under section 15(1) of the Act . |
| 25 | Otaka has clearly had a most inspiring influence on the BBC Welsh , so much so that I am quite convinced that anyone coming to this excellent new recording blindfolded would never guess its provenance . |
| 26 | But my version of what happened would still have been rather different . |
| 27 | However , even those who do not doubt the terrible things that happened can still squabble about their meaning . |
| 28 | There were girls who followed Must n't Grumble from gig to gig just to be near the boy , recording these concerts on reel-to-reel tape-recorders . |
| 29 | James Watt realised that steam engines as they then existed could not create enough power to be truly economical . |
| 30 | He published at least one book a year ; readers who began could not put them down , though at the end of the book they had received nothing . |