Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm one card would really do me some good . |
| 2 | As a moral imperative , far from being incommensurable with his previous considerations , it merely adds others similar in kind ; he now has to see things from his parents ' viewpoint as well as his own , consider their health and resources , ask himself how much they have done to arouse his gratitude or his rancour , whether his staying would really do them any good , whether he can get on with them without quarrelling , and add all this to the information which he must assimilate before he lets the needle of his internal compass finally settle in the direction of Bali or of home . |
| 3 | If you do n't have the skill , Employment Action will never give you those skills . |
| 4 | Laser light can now give us more than just music in our ears . |
| 5 | Suppose I 'm an industrialist listening to this programme , and I 've been very interested in what you 've been saying , and I feel that I 've got a problem that the University could possibly give me some advice on . |
| 6 | The process should also give you some idea of what your company spends on printing , or at least producing , documents — it will probably be around 8–10% of your turnover , assuming that your company is n't actually in the publishing business in the first place . |
| 7 | A scientific law or theory should ideally give us some information about how the world does in fact behave , thereby ruling out ways in which it could ( logically ) possibly behave but in fact does not . |
| 8 | Erm that means we have a stall on Tuesday the twenty fourth , Wednesday we 've got our meeting here with the speaker about , were having Mike speaking on Czechoslovakian now and he 'll be telling us his experiences over there and his had a long association with Czechoslovakia and Harlow and Thursday were having a market stall with a jazz band and Norman could probably tell us more about that . |
| 9 | We did n't want there to be any confusion so that people would automatically put us all into public services , because the majority of our members should n't be in that section . |
| 10 | Some of us here today may not have all that much reason to rejoice right now but God will ultimately lead us all forward in joy . |
| 11 | A search will reveal : ( a ) Whether the property is in an area of compulsory registration ( question 18 made of the local authority will also give you this information ) ; ( b ) whether the freehold or leasehold title is registered ; ( c ) if the title is unregistered , whether any cautions against first registration or priority notice is registered . |
| 12 | If it is only 20 francs , Father will perhaps give me another 10 … and then I 'll rush off at tremendous speed . ’ |
| 13 | Other people will quickly disillusion you this evening . |
| 14 | For having encouraged us all to believe that Labour was going to win , the media will now encourage us all to believe that something astonishing must have happened to stop it winning . |
| 15 | ‘ Paintbox can still carry me all day , ’ Artemis replied . |
| 16 | If individuals could see more widely — as we can , by virtue of the narrative structure of The Lord of the Rings — they would realise that events have a cause-and-effect logic , though there are so many causes that perhaps no one but God can ever see them all at once . |
| 17 | On his way home from college , he had managed to slip into the bookshop and grab a few quick words with Joe on the pretext of asking for a book , but the small , stout man could only tell him more or less what he already knew . |
| 18 | A bit of common sense will usually give you some answers . |
| 19 | As a patient , I would like to think that the presence of a doctor 's name on the list would also offer me some sort of guarantee that he or she would not subject me to unnecessary or unjustifiably harmful treatment — whether that treatment be labelled alternative or mainstream , labels that serve only to confuse the issue . |
| 20 | I would think Frank Clarke would probably give him another minute or so to see if he can run it off . |
| 21 | And of course the night of the Gathering Ball it was just packed tight with people , hardly the school would hardly hold them all . |
| 22 | What emerges from any comparative analysis of the tasks of curriculum planning and responses to them is that no one centre or unit can adequately accomplish them all . |
| 23 | So Dave will just get him some cigarettes or something . |