Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The IFM says an angling test should at first be voluntary but perhaps become compulsory in the future with anglers losing their licence for breaking a code of practice . |
| 2 | After Mercury turns to direct motion on September 18th your days of wondering , waiting and worrying should at last be over . |
| 3 | As a simple , untutored Galilean fisherman and bully , he must at first have taken Jesus 's statements quite literally . |
| 4 | As Anita Mason shows , Simon Peter must at first have been thoroughly convinced that the world would literally end with Jesus 's death — that an apocalyptic holocaust would consume the whole of creation , that upheavals such as those recounted by Old Testament prophets would sweep the earth , that God would descend to pronounce stern judgement . |
| 5 | The mother 's job is even more exacting ; while remaining true to herself and her needs , she must at first embrace her baby in the closest hold , and then let her move away in steps of her own . |
| 6 | Our citizens must at last find out where their roots are ’ , he says . |
| 7 | We must at last face the question as to whether the time is right to discard the nation state . |
| 8 | The Home Office says that there are currently 351 staff working at Long Lartin ; 5 more than the level agreed upon with the Prison Officers Association back in may of last year . |
| 9 | This is perhaps a more useful analogy than might at first sight appear . |
| 10 | to the pressure in the car tyres and to keep the trailer tyres at a higher pressure than might at first seem necessary . |
| 11 | Although considerable effort has been made to develop an automatic release for the towplane , the problems are not as simple as they might at first seem and so far no really satisfactory technical answer has been found . |
| 12 | The conditions under which trade may be carried out may not be as simple as they might at first appear . |
| 13 | The passionate faith in the deep influence of the soil on man might at first sight appear to be an idea which a Marxist regime could easily harness to its own ideology , as was the Russian peasant 's deeply ingrained sense of co-operative toil on the land , a notion likewise derived from his dvoeverie . |
| 14 | Marx was , as Engels stressed in his funeral oration , first and foremost a revolutionary , and so the importance which he attached to the study of pre-literate peoples , the traditional field of anthropology , might at first seem strange . |
| 15 | The significance of the objections we have just noted is much more important than might at first appear . |
| 16 | Yet despite that authoritative vindication , the moment the PLO makes what might at first sight appear a slight regression to its old-style militancy , the US promptly joins the Israeli ‘ extremists ’ in pronouncing it a serious setback for the peace process . |
| 17 | One reason for this , which might at first sight seem paradoxical , was that , except in the aristocracy , the family unit had contracted . |
| 18 | Again , when the Irishman Scotus Eriugena , one of the two finest minds of the ninth century ( the other was Gottschalk , close student of Augustine 's works and initiator of the controversy on predestination ) , translated from Greek into Latin the Heavenly Hierarchy of Pseudo-Denis ( c .860 ) , he might at first sight have been engaged in something purely academic . |
| 19 | Indeed , the carbon-based molecules of which living things are constructed , and which they employ for life 's purposes , are so various and can be so complex that the study of biochemistry might at first sight seem quite impossible . |
| 20 | The process of proletarianisation itself is a more complex issue than might at first be supposed . |
| 21 | Not all are valid but the variables that go into product make-up justify a far greater range than that which might at first appear strictly essential . |
| 22 | In their Narratives of love and loss ( 1987 , pp.1–2 ) they have set out ‘ to understand and … explain the astonishing emotional depth and moving power of works which might at first sight appear deceptively simple to adult readers , written as they are to be read by children ’ . |
| 23 | However unpopular such a measure might at first appear , the long experience of the commissioners had shown them not only the inefficacy in most cases but also the cruelty of issuing executions against the goods of defendants — ‘ as regards the wives and children of debtors by selling their beds from under them , and the expense and oppression attending the levy ’ . |
| 24 | This is not as ridiculous as it might at first seem . |
| 25 | If there is a desire to go down this road it has to be said it may not be as easy as it might at first seem . |
| 26 | Second , the actual cost , both in time and money , can be very much less than might at first be anticipated . |
| 27 | Pressed flowers have many more uses than one might at first imagine , and as well as being used in their own right , they can also serve as the inspiration for further designs . |
| 28 | ( However , it should be pointed out that the Welsh and Scottish figures are percentages of much higher unemployment rates and are , therefore , not as favourable as might at first seem ) . |
| 29 | To write this sounds platitudinous , yet to translate that understanding into daily practice is far more difficult than might at first appear . |
| 30 | A study of a series of great square-headed brooches from southern England , of sixth century date , in which parts of the ornament are interchanged might at first argue for part-models being used to make up varying compound designs . |