Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [vb infin] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The FT-SE 100 Index continued to sail into unchartered waters and a further £3bn flooded into the market on hopes that the recession may have finally blown itself out . |
| 2 | If the chronic form of inflammation occurs simultaneously all over the body , as can happen in rheumatoid arthritis , the sufferer may feel physically weakened by the strength of the reaction . |
| 3 | A sharp drop in population coupled with forest regeneration in the Basin of Pátzcuaro may have significantly reduced erosion . |
| 4 | Compaction after sedimentation may have considerably reduced any angle of cross lamination measured from grain orientation ; the significance of this can be estimated from compaction features visible in the same thin sections ( Section 5.3.2 ) . |
| 5 | In commercial terms , The Wedding Present may have already reached their zenith and the manner in which they have done so is fantastically inspirational . |
| 6 | Instead , the writer should have simply combined these into a single sentence without " It " , or kept two sentences but replaced " It " with " This text " . |
| 7 | Alternatively , the DGSE may have unofficially told MI6 what it planned to do in New Zealand . |
| 8 | Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think . |
| 9 | At eighteen , he decides that some freakish wind must have mistakenly transplanted him to France : he was born , he declares , to be Emperor of Cochin-China , to smoke 36-fathom pipes , to have 6,000 wives and 1,400 catamites ; but instead , displaced by this meteorological hazard , he is left with immense , insatiable desires , fierce boredom , and an attack of the yawns . |
| 10 | The applicant must meet clearly defined criteria relating to general fitness , good repute , maintenance arrangements , drivers ' hours and overloading , suitability of the operating centre , financial resources and professional competence . |
| 11 | As a private activity there could be no objection to Christian members calling their fellow-believers to prayer , and I suppose that I and fellow-members of the British Humanist Association could have similarly organized a non-official meeting . |
| 12 | If the dinosaur did , after all , live on dry land , then the long neck could have usefully functioned to allow the animal to browse the high foliage of trees ( see p. 116 ) . |
| 13 | personally , I 'd have thought that anyone who heard a gunshot round our manor would have just moved away from the window and kept his head down , but I 've got to accept that someone may have phoned . |
| 14 | Had he shown himself unambiguously ready to start pulling out , the coalition would have surely had to offer him something , if not to save his face , at least to cover his backside : an American commitment to talk about any Middle Eastern issue whatsoever has already been given ; the call for Iraqi reparations could still be waived . |
| 15 | But if it were to go up and up and up the blood would become absolutely saturated with sugar which would do us no good at all . |
| 16 | For example , Sperber and Wilson suggest that in [ 25 ] it would be consistent with the principle of relevance to assume that the speaker wanted to indicate that the walk was longer than the hearer would have otherwise thought . |
| 17 | In [ 26 ] they suggest that the extra contextual effects are derived by assuming that the speaker attaches a higher confirmation value to the proposition expressed than the hearer would have otherwise thought . |
| 18 | It is most unlikely that without the reformulation a hearer would have even understood what the first segment was about . |
| 19 | Defeat would have officially sent Cowdenbeath to the Second Division but that inevitable fate has only been delayed . |
| 20 | A breakwater would have just risen up above the horizon and come , become slightly more important . |
| 21 | It seems unlikely , therefore , that the ability to adjust for body weight would have materially affected the results that relate to pill use . |
| 22 | They argue that a great deal of public-sector investment would have inevitably occurred , and that little of it was new . |
| 23 | Not that their patronage would have necessarily ensured success . |
| 24 | As far as a full scale review of the structure plan is concerned , there is no doubt in the county council 's mind , that such a full scale review would have significantly extended the process when all the players wish to see rapid progress , particularly to deal with the problems of Greater York . |
| 25 | For example , the minority view would have prevailed in Donoghue v. Stevenson [ 1932 ] A.C. 562 ; our modern law of judicial review would have never developed from its old , ineffectual , origins ; and Mareva injunctions would never have seen the light of day . |
| 26 | In a small number of cases the defendant will have deliberately driven without a licence because he ca n't pass a test ; he is a visitor to Britain and because he has been granted leave to stay , he now requires a licence etc. , i.e. within 12 months for a visitor . |
| 27 | I will become so deeply interested in whatever I am doing … in whatever is going on around me … my mind will become completely distracted away from myself . |
| 28 | The accounts department will have automatically deducted — and accounted for — the PAYE on your earnings as a salaried employee . |
| 29 | By the time the female lays the last egg of the season , her first chick will have already emerged and left . |
| 30 | Academic research will become more concentrated in institutes and growth will also be seen in the industrial sector . |