Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should 've heard the different birds . |
| 2 | So on that very depressing note , er I 'll leave we 've got a few minutes for questions or objections if anyone wants to , we 've got some head shaking . |
| 3 | The 14 respondents ( 46% ) who could not decide included the 10 informants who said they sometimes read SF . |
| 4 | I hope I may have given a few ideas and if anyone makes their fortune and buys a villa in the South of France , will you invite me for a holiday , please ? |
| 5 | He suddenly felt some sympathy for her : her intentions had been evil but Jane could hardly have foreseen the appalling results of her maliciousness — if indeed Jim Lancaster had stormed off and murdered his wife . |
| 6 | At the time of presenting themselves for employment , many nurses/mothers may not have experienced any difficulties with their children 's health or may not have foreseen the possible difficulties . |
| 7 | Leapor would have witnessed the early stages of this reorganization in agriculture . |
| 8 | He would never understand how she could memorize all those complex , impossibly long poems , yet forget the words of a simple song she must have heard a thousand times or more . |
| 9 | He must have heard the racing results at six o'clock . |
| 10 | Pity you were n't here , I could have rushed up a ticket or two and you could have explained the finer nuances . |
| 11 | Perhaps as a result of Syrian influence , companies of eunuch priests may have inhabited the Minoan temples ; in a later period , it is known that eunuch priests served Cybele and Attis in Anatolia . |
| 12 | If you had been Chief Onlaf , in which order of importance would you have placed the seven requirements for a suitable village site ? |
| 13 | Before the case was finished Dalgliesh would have received a dozen pictures of Lorrimer 's personality , transferred like prints from other men 's minds . |
| 14 | Must have stopped every ten yards between junctions seventeen and eighteen . |
| 15 | Good co-ordinated fire might have wrecked the two galleys , and she could have got on course before Crackbene arrived . |
| 16 | The President and most Republican legislators favoured a version that would have limited the extra benefits to no more than 20 weeks , and objected to the qualification changes . |
| 17 | They must have recalled the prophetic remarks in 1829 of the Nez Perce elder Speckled Snake : ‘ I have listened to many talks from the great father . |
| 18 | FACT THREE is that by this time next week umpteen other life-changing events will have shaken the respectable residents of the comfy Melbourne cul-de-sac . |
| 19 | The loss of the holy day holidays might have annoyed the local inhabitants more than it did the off-comers . |
| 20 | I think the record , it 's available in the archives , historians who are honest and hardworking could even then have come up with erm answers that would have incriminated the German leaders of nineteen-fourteen , and therefore moved German society , I believe , substantially towards the democratic centre , if not the Social Democratic Left . |
| 21 | This appears to be the case even in youth subcultures where one might have expected the greatest changes . |
| 22 | One might have expected the intense difficulties confronting British film producers to stimulate discussion ; instead it seems to have narrowed their perspective . |
| 23 | In the name of these principles the Cortes produced on paper ( for neither the constitution nor its legislative consequences were ever effective ) a Spain that would have delighted the monarchical bureaucrats : a clumsy taxational system , with endless provincial divergencies , was to be replaced by a uniform income tax ; the machinery of the ancien régime with its characteristic confusion of administrative and judicial function was dismantled . |
| 24 | In the liberal view , harsh material conditions may have predisposed the Russian masses to revolt , but the occasion and the direction of their intervention depended upon the actions of the leading figures on the political stage . |
| 25 | Could we have let the wrong men go ? ’ |
| 26 | 1 should not have let the three days expire . |
| 27 | A child may come before a hearing on an offence referral and be made subject to a supervision requirement for a number of reasons , of which the offence may be only one ; the child may on review be kept subject to a supervision requirement , even though he may have committed no further offences , because of , say , inadequate parental care . |
| 28 | She must have forgotten a few things in the holidays , like the time I pushed her in the school goldfish pond . |
| 29 | The ward sister and trained staff on the other hand may have forgotten the small incidents which cause anxiety in the learner . |
| 30 | Corbett vaguely recalled the building as a pleasant two-storeyed affair : the fire must have caught the sun-dried timbers and turned it into this blackened mess . |