参考答案:
• 31. resort to force
• 32. can't have been cleaned
• 33. was wrongly accused/charged
• 34. for fear that he should be recognized
• 35. being sent abroad
• 36. neither will they
• 37. not so much a writer
• 38. Believe it or not
• 39. may just as well stay at home
• 40. stain the new carpet