Example sentences of "[adj] [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Status . — Scarce but regular winter visitor ; a very few may pass through on passage . |
| 2 | Another may come along for advice and you 'd tell him to leave the horse alone : ‘ But he looks all right ! |
| 3 | Some might set off from observations like these to construct a formal system which would provide different representations for the different types of non-linguistic referents ( beings or situations or things ) for which , logically , the various phrases could be used in our own or some other possible world . |
| 4 | Let's hope the ms strikes lucky this time , otherwise this could go on for generations . |
| 5 | This could go on for hours . |
| 6 | ‘ But this could go on for years . ’ |
| 7 | This could go on till morning , it was ridiculous . |
| 8 | This could cost up to £1 billion , defeating much of the purpose of the VAT increase as a revenue-earning measure . |
| 9 | We believe this could save up to £2 million if properly enforced . |
| 10 | In corporate accounting , this would go down under salaries or labour costs ; while for Brazil it represented an investment of time and resources as well as a transfer of technology . |
| 11 | However , to pursue this would lead on to criticisms of inductivism that I have reserved for the next chapter . |
| 12 | But this would leave out of account the main factor that was involved in determining the order of words , which is the meaning of the whole communication . |
| 13 | This would save up to £3 billion at a time when the jobless total is soaring . |
| 14 | They have a 40% vote in the choice of the Labour leader ( with the party 's MPs and its rank-and-file sharing the rest ) ; up to 40% in the choice of parliamentary candidates ; and hitherto some 90% of the vote at the party 's annual conference , though this will come down to 70% this year . |
| 15 | If putty is used ( as was common on older systems ) , this will dry out in time and the joint may leak . |
| 16 | Do not be tempted to use the small charge that is already in the battery , as this will run down in seconds . |
| 17 | No doubt some will stay on to summer in Shetland and encourage us to hope that some day it too may be found nesting . |
| 18 | They can make large shrubs — some will get up to 7ft ( 2. 1m ) high and as wide — with large flattish blooms and a colour range from white through pink and red to deep crimson . |
| 19 | However , the extent of the programme means that Reactor 2 will run out of fuel before fuelling machine testing is complete . |
| 20 | Then that 'll go through to Turners so I mean it could be like a fortnight after they 've been okayed . |
| 21 | So that that 'll go out with that that 'll go out with X |
| 22 | Ahhh I shall have to tell him then , he said cos that 'll come up for sale then . |
| 23 | Forgetting about the Japanese for a moment , I had bee forecasting that one or two of the big six would go out of business as independent companies . |
| 24 | ‘ Of the 250 youngsters in the fifth year , we hope about 100 will come back in September to do A-levels or a one-year course , ’ Clement-Jones says . |
| 25 | And if all these should flicker out like candles , still his young , lusty brother Edmund , strong as a stag , and ripe for marriage , capable of getting more sons , more Mortimers to carry on the line and the claim to eternity . |
| 26 | Outbreaks of mainly light rain are expected this evening but these should die out around midnight . |
| 27 | If everyone in society outside had opportunities to be in touch with their feelings in work , education and creative living , fewer would end up in prison . |
| 28 | A selection of these will flash up on screen during the half-hour programme . |
| 29 | NOW UNIX INTERNATIONAL MAY BOW OUT OF X/OPEN |
| 30 | We would be foolish to believe that nothing good could come out of modernity . |