Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever a fast is undertaken for selfish ends it must be resisted . |
| 2 | Similarly , in medieval Europe , it was ‘ common sense ’ that one could determine the guilt or innocence of an accused person through ‘ trial by ordeal ’ , e.g. accused people carried a red-hot iron bar for ten paces , and if their wounds were healed after x days they would be declared innocent — again , this method is noticeably absent in modern trials ! |
| 3 | another mistake in the film was to suggest that in a a short franchise , say of seven years they would need a great deal of working capital , but they wo n't need a great deal of working capital or or share capital , they will actually be running a business where they get subsidy , because if er they 're involving socially necessary lines , like commuter lines , or or rural lines , then we 've made it very clear er that the taxpayers subsidy will continue , because these are loss making businesses , they will be bid they will bid for subsidy , and they will continue to get that subsidy , so they will have the flow of whatever income they can increase , in the passenger franchise , plus the subsidy , plus , and this is a very important point in what we 're doing in the restructuring of British Rail , you see , nobody up till now has said that British Rail is perfect , everyone acknowledges that there are big improvements to be made , the way we 're structuring it will get those improvements because the smaller franchises , not the great big monolithic nationalized industry , the smaller units , ha will be able to identify much more clearly where they can make the savings and where they can increase the revenue . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , if this war wound stands up ter walkin' up those stairs I might be able ter get it down ter the dustbin for yer , ’ he said with a grimace . |
| 5 | Mr Jones said : ‘ He did make reference to the letter in the speech that he made and he did make positive noises but whether they will translate into positive actions we 'll have to wait and see . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ No , it means that once you 're caught in those waves you might as well give up . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I ca n't imagine how they 'd manage with the zimmer , although there 's probably a whole magazine in the library devoted to obscene things you can do with disability aids . ’ |
| 8 | Something the Wild Geese used to say — the Irish soldiers who had fled Ireland after that big battle at the end of the seventeenth century when they were dying on foreign battlefields they used to say : ‘ Would that this were for Ireland . ’ |
| 9 | The Court of Appeal agreed with Wright J. Mr. Tully is in effect saying that if he discloses his dealings with his assets or the moneys of Wessex and Abbey and if he furnishes copies of the documents relating to those dealings he will be providing evidence which may assist the police to prosecute him for the crime of embezzlement . |
| 10 | It would be like traveling on some airlines I could name . |
| 11 | I want at the end erm , Chairman to give you my views of what is meant by er , an integrated and balanced community because I think that 's that 's quite important , but before I do that , I 'd like to mop up one or two er points right at the end in response to some of the contributions that have been made , and I 'll deal with them , Wincup , Curtis , Brook , er and Thomas , if that 's acceptable er to you , and really as far as Mr Wincup is concerned , he 's quite properly raised the issue of procedural issues about how the Greater York authorities is going to address moving towards er an agreed location , and quite clearly I 've got to reaffirm again that the County Council will want to look at both the greenbelt local plan report and your panel report before er it moves erm er forward or looks at any conclusions it may be moving to in the light of those er in the light of those reports , and quite clearly , as we all know , there are a number of options . |
| 12 | We have looked at two reasons you might have for recording student performance : |
| 13 | I can think of some things we should have done earlier . |
| 14 | We could see the sights , have some fun , and maybe I could think of some ways I could help you . ’ |
| 15 | Those constraints have gone now , and yet Haines says for various reasons we should not expect to see future AS/400s challenging the top-end mainframe market , although it will become a stronger challenger around the low-end and middle of Enterprise System 's territory . |
| 16 | But then grandiose claims are made for most things you can buy connected with mountaineering . |
| 17 | These are useful cautions ; like the programmed learning advocates before them , there is a tendency among many in the educational technology school to oversimplify , to brush aside difficulties , and to state as proven doctrines it will take many more years of experiment and experience to establish . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , if you mix with those types you 'll become as bad as they are . ’ |
| 19 | Put in those terms it may seem a strange statement , but it is one of the essential differences between true epics and novels , which deal , on the whole , with the world of ‘ reality ’ . |
| 20 | Erm but of course if you die within seven years it could indeed be added back into your estate so I think that they also build a certain amount of life insurance against that and essentially what you do is you you One of the schemes is you pay insurance against the amount of the tax bill seven years . |
| 21 | A National Guard , reporting directly to the President , was to be established immediately , in order to reduce the role of the army in riot control ; according to official sources it would number tens of thousands , and would incorporate the riot police . |
| 22 | When a figure is drawn according to these instructions it will , as a consequence , have various properties which a geometer might have predicted . |
| 23 | And when it came to those Trumpers I could only agree with my father 's judgment . |
| 24 | At McDonald 's we believe you deserve straight answers to any questions you might have concerning our food products . |
| 25 | After looking at first reactions I shall sketch the main lines of theological comment and response , and then liturgical , practical and ecumenical developments ; then some ‘ growing points ’ and problems in areas both of praxis and of theological reflection . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ There are so many products that can be used for intoxicating purposes it would be impossible to lock them all away . |
| 27 | So you go into the guy you sell it to him and then you 've lost you 've got for two years you can do nothing with that person . |
| 28 | Indeed these two characteristics are all that is needed in the case of the adjective ; the relative clause is in a sense a stalking horse , convenient in that it is more tangible than the relation around which it is built , but unnecessary , and awkward in that it brings with it , in English , the requirement that it must express a tense ; for while it is often possible to read a tense into an adjective there is no reason whatever to suppose that there is always some particular tense present to the mind of the speaker but suppressed , as can be seen from instances like ( 35 ) , where more than one tense could plausibly be grafted onto the sense expressed by the phrase underlined , or , just as well , some adverbial notion like " because " or " if " without any specific tense being implied : ( 35 ) motorists guilty will have to pay heavy fines Likewise , the buildings adjacent of example ( 17 ) simply take their tense from that of the clause as a whole ; if , for instance , we were to switch the tense of the verb in that example in order to shift the whole situation to past time : ( 36 ) the buildings adjacent were closed for three days it would be quite unnecessary to presume that an independent mental re-assignment of tense , from present to past , internal to the phrase buildings adjacent , has to take place as well . |
| 29 | It may be argued that because the affective domain deals with qualitative differences it can not be planned for in the same systematic way that is applied to knowledge , and that it is best dealt with by providing suitable models , and by discussion when problems and student needs arise . |
| 30 | Enclosed with these notes you will find a letter referring to Fees for 1986 . |