Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I 've been off work in excess of five years now er add my income has been very very small and whatever award I get will never go ahead and compensate me or my wife for what I 've been through . |
| 2 | Voters had to decide in conscience ‘ whether other factors outweigh the damage which divorce would certainly cause to individuals , to families , to children and to the whole of society ’ ( Irish Times , 13 June 1986 ) . |
| 3 | The provision of state pensions for such people was a welcome addition to the incomes of the extended households they almost invariably belonged to ; it supplemented and sometimes replaced the help which lineages would otherwise have given . |
| 4 | In other words people move in and out of dependent states ( just as younger people do ) and the help they receive can either enforce dependency permanently or provide the temporary support they need to recover . |
| 5 | His mouth closed over hers with the passion and glory she knew would never die and she melted into his impassioned embrace with a heart that was free to be his at last . |
| 6 | Any job I took would also have to be fitted around me travelling to and from Harwich . |
| 7 | The Roy I knew would never take that from anyone , not in a million years . ’ |
| 8 | Is this a conclusion which Nozick must simply accept , abandoning his claim to total success and pointing merely to the admitted partial success ? |
| 9 | The new packages you mentioned will certainly help . |
| 10 | If trusts , as is often said , depended on the testator 's intention and little else , then to launch into a discussion of the wordings they employed may well seem perverse . |
| 11 | The flapping of their wings and the strange cries they make would indeed have been eerie for those who Mew nothing of bird migration . |
| 12 | Unemployment and the poverty it brings can never justify criminal behaviour but it does , very often , explain it and the Conservatives ' refusal to accept the fact undermines their entire approach to law and order . |
| 13 | Lucien immediately recognised the movements of the dance as being those of a classical piece : Paradouze being taught the sequences of the Vibrancy by His uncle , the cat-headed snake Smoobillow , a body of knowledge which Paradouze would later pass on to humankind . |
| 14 | Only one shadow lay over Sally 's life , a secret shadow that none of the luxuries she enjoyed could quite banish . |
| 15 | The person who dies must normally have been resident in the United Kingdom , and the funeral has to take place in the UK . |
| 16 | Thereafter , engaging the family in a discussion of the problems they face can quickly indicate the current nature of family relationships and interactions . |
| 17 | And when I took over the magazine I said let's just use the typefaces that they use in the newspaper and supplement them for some headlines , but try to make it belong in the New York Times . |
| 18 | The publications you produce may well fit into a set of identifiable categories ; brochures , newsletters , flyers , books , manuals and so on but it 's how you produce them that 's important . |
| 19 | But the central argument on the industrial front is that if you bring a large number of extra jobs into an area where the unemployment is much below the national average , and much below the regional average , then you are going to bring people from the surrounding area in and many of those people we believe would far prefer to have found jobs nearer their existing homes . |
| 20 | And only Jinny knew that the news he wanted would never come . |
| 21 | As his reputation went before him like a brass band in front of a carnival , from the age of twenty no woman he met could possibly have been unaware of it . |
| 22 | Each of these sources provides new information that will enrich the ideas you start out with ; and the materials you explore will also provide a springboard into completely new ideas , that you are unlikely to have simply by contemplating the poems themselves . |
| 23 | The legislation you face will obviously prevent credit marketing here becoming as mature as its US relation . |
| 24 | In fact , it was just about the very last thing I thought would ever happen . |
| 25 | It seems that there are some minds which travel will never broaden : vulgarity , riotous behaviour , high spirits and horseplay have scandalized the establishment since the birth of tourism — the 1980s Costa Brava lager lout had his parallel in the Victorian excursionist . |
| 26 | The colourless liquid in the glass she carried might just have been water , perhaps ; but whatever it was she seemed unwontedly sober . |
| 27 | Should you decide to cash in your bond before the five years are up , the guaranteed return will not apply and the amount you receive will largely depend on market conditions at that time . |
| 28 | The expertise of the adviser in the particular problem which emerges will doubtless influence the proposed course of action ( which might include a referral ) but the preliminary advisory skills may be possessed by a volunteer as by a professional . |
| 29 | And when it comes to discussing the birds and bees with their parents , nearly half the boys we questioned would rather talk to mum . |
| 30 | Because of the consciousness of using the correct level of language in a conversation or discussion , any interpreter one engages may unconsciously modify statements going from English to Japanese and back to English again , according to the rank of the people involved . |