Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | St Patrick must greatly have simplified Irish thought , a turn for the better , when he introduced Christianity . |
| 2 | Bury and Stockport once more topped the list , with third place going to Bradford , an authority where the national attention paid to the city 's politics , and the polarising of political opinion on the ground , can only have increased electoral interest . |
| 3 | Eighteen months ago , says business logistics director Alex Shepherd , the company would only have considered big names like IBM and Hewlett Packard . |
| 4 | It was conceivable that , as the area chairmen feared , higher prices in domestic tariffs would not only have discouraged undesirable loads such as peak space heating , but also the ones such as water heating and cooking which helped them in their overall commercial strategy and were largely off-peak . |
| 5 | All new school buildings in northern China , where the weather is cold and bright , will henceforth have built-in solar energy installations . |
| 6 | Legislators will not normally have had prior experience of governing , nor do they provide a government-in-waiting , as in the United Kingdom . |
| 7 | However , the company 's activities may already have done irreversible damage to the park , which has been identified as the second most important in the world for bird life , with 10 per cent of all species . |
| 8 | If it transpired that the intervention notice was not justified , and Lautro rescinded it , a press notice might already have caused substantial damage to the person affected . |
| 9 | Channel 4 says the show recognises its audience may already have left sexual theory behind and moved on to the practical side of the subject . |
| 10 | Although children will already have had everyday experiences with water this may be the first time that water has been offered to them as a material to play and experiment with . |
| 11 | Heavy weaving will easily take bought fancy fastenings and then , neat machine knitted button and buttonhole bands can always be worked in the background yarn . |
| 12 | It flew within two hundred feet of Gatwick 's South terminal buildings and could easily have hit other aircraft or vehicles . |
| 13 | The Forestry Training Council will soon have agreed vocational packages at craft level . |
| 14 | We should not regard their ‘ invention ’ of a structured gestural language as grounds for believing that earlier hominid handwaving could thus rapidly have attained parsable results . |
| 15 | Doyle , for instance , thinks to himself a Scottish thought : ‘ Would his grandparents ever have had sexual activity in the parlour ? ’ |
| 16 | Village meetings would possibly have reached consensual decisions on the order in which crops were to be worked , under the leadership of elders . |
| 17 | There were many records of such manifestations , from reliable and intelligent observers , who had often described the curious incident before they could possibly have heard bad news from India or Australia , where at that moment a friend 's life was endangered . |
| 18 | It is obscured to some extent by the heavily didactic purpose of Masterman Ready and this may partly account for the fact that young readers have always claimed the adult novel , Mr Midshipman Easy , as their own , even though it must always have made considerable demands on their reading skills and their understanding . |
| 19 | Anyone earning over £9 a week and over age 18 at the time would probably have paid graduated contributions and be due a pension . |
| 20 | In dismissing [ h ] -loss in the manner described , however , scholars may also have dismissed important evidence for the study of how linguistic changes are implemented and diffused . |
| 21 | Given that Mr Slade 's and Mr Kempton 's salaries were identical , the inspector formed the view that Mr Kempton may also have received undisclosed amounts from the company . |
| 22 | However , developments in computer technology ( eg microcomputers linked to a larger central computer or networked micros ) may also have made decentralised management control easier and cheaper . |
| 23 | They will also have gained considerable confidence in confronting , examining and expressing new ideas in a new language . |
| 24 | However , the deficiency of H is clear , and there are no plausible means by which H can be retained in the interior in substantially greater quantities than C and N. In section 4.4.3 certain difficulties were noted of Venus losing to space large quantities of H. To these difficulties must now be added the difficulty that if Venus has lost large quantities of H to space then the Earth , with its warm exosphere and Mars with its low gravitational field , should also have lost large quantities of H. This supports the conclusion that Venus has always been deficient in H , but it does not help explain why . |
| 25 | And waters passing through the earth 's crust at hydrothermal vents etcetera will also have undergone chemical changes so again pool waters being emitted will vary in their composition . |
| 26 | Frisch suggested that underweight women would also have impaired reproductive function owing to a lack of oestrogen produced in adipose tissue . |
| 27 | Stein will also have seen grand pianos with an action design very like that of Cristofori made by Johann Heinrich in the same workshop . |
| 28 | Modern scientific medicine has of course dispensed with such speculative constructs , but thereby it may also have sacrificed therapeutic insights available to our renaissance predecessors . |
| 29 | To extend the parallel , the impact of the comet would also have released large quantities of hard radiation . |
| 30 | Previous development may also have left old foundations , concrete slabs and basements which must be identified and quantified for additional cost . |