Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [modal v] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard was the King 's brother ; according to Henry 's mood and caprice that might make the young man either indispensable or unthinkable , but even for de Burgh it made it difficult to disparage his stewardship openly . |
| 2 | Thon wee Marie Tress that used to work the upper circle got stuck ahint the safe in the office way him an he vernear tane the blouse affer . |
| 3 | Their objective was to use the concordance and dictionary definitions to produce an ordered set of disambiguation rules that would determine the correct sense of a word by testing for both part of speech and membership of sixteen specific semantic categories . |
| 4 | We live , write and speak today in a world of free and democratized languages ; the complex and multilevelled hierarchy of discourses , forms , images , styles that used to permeate the entire system of official language and official consciousness was swept away by the linguistic revolutions of the Renaissance … . |
| 5 | Two Haig Chadwick carding machines worth almost half a million pounds each , along with two H.D.B. spinning frames that will occupy the new building , have already been ordered . |
| 6 | Building on this , targets and benchmarks could be introduced that could overcome the lingering tendency to see risk management as simply an overhead ( ’ even though , ‘ Ure said , ‘ it costs nothing to sit down and work out threats and actions ’ ) . |
| 7 | If only he could find the switch to throw or the knob to turn that would liberate the real potential of communism . |
| 8 | It may well come to pass that … legislation could be enacted that will offend the objective moral law . |
| 9 | So practices that might strengthen the inner ear are to be commended . |
| 10 | Now … there 's KIBUN PRAWN STICKS that will meet the growing demand for interesting Seafood products , superb in taste and texture , there really is no substitute ! |