Example sentences of "[pron] [indef pn] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | It was also felt that it was a company which nobody could attack on the grounds of political bias in favour of the project — if anything , thought Walsh , the other way round , after he had seen a portrait of Margaret Thatcher prominently displayed in its Ealing headquarters . |
2 | Amy 's was engraved on the outside , H M * A M. When she spoke of her marriage on one occasion at one of our sessions , she referred to her feelings towards it as those which one might entertain towards a manacle . ’ |
3 | Most businesses would be valued on either an earnings or asset or dividend yield basis as appropriate but there are certain ‘ rules of thumb ’ or key features which one may use as a ‘ double check ’ to confirm the reasonableness of the determined value . |
4 | Or as Krafft-Ebing put it , ‘ The sexual functions of men exercise a very marked influence upon the development and preservation of character ’ , so that manliness and self reliance were not the qualities which one would expect from the ‘ impotent onanist ’ . |
5 | The first Carolingian king , Pippin I , in 754/5 had specified " concerning the mint , that of each pound of silver , not more than 22 solidi were to be minted , of which one must go to the moneyer and the rest to the lord [ king ] " : since the account pound used in normal business reckoning contained 20 solidi , Pippin was in effect decreeing a royal mint charge of 1 solidus , i.e. 5 per cent . |
6 | It was noted in the introduction to Chapter 21 that , if planning represented the route map for the journey , then organizing represented the means by which one could arrive at the chosen destination . |
7 | Accordingly , one is constrained in the way which one can refer to the preceding paragraph in the printed document — because one does not know what the preceding paragraph will be . |
8 | There is no precise moment or position at which one can say of a particular individual that the child has become an adult or that the man who was outside the house is now inside . |
9 | Although Lord Rees-Mogg 's confession that he is not a modernist can just about explain his neglect of artists such as Schoenberg , Proust , Kafka , Beckett and Auden , sheer ignorance is the only way in which one can account for the omission of Charles Sherrington , Alan Hodgkin , Lord Adrian and David Hubel , to name but four in neurophysiology ; Rutherford , Bohr , Planck , Heisenberg , Dirac and Gell-Man in physics . |
10 | ( In 1953 Pollock produced a canvas called Easter And The Totem which anybody might mistake for a Krasner . ) |
11 | Anybody to whom one could talk about the place ? |
12 | This is not something one would expect in a normal shop . |
13 | In any case , there was nothing anyone could do about the men in the trenches until the fog lifted . |
14 | Within these one can still discern the ‘ earlier ’ items , whose syntactic combination in accordance with Montague 's formation rules involves only relatively minor peripheral modifications ( just what one would expect on the Sampson-Simon model ) . |
15 | Their search led , by the middle of the 1940s , to a compound , 2:6-diaminopurine , which had effects in mammals and chicks ‘ about what one would expect of a substance which interferes with nucleic acid metabolism in some way ’ . |
16 | Like the pelagic trilobites , individual graptoloid species are very widespread , which is what one would expect of an animal with the wide ocean as its habitat . |
17 | It is important to note that the consonants that have undergone assimilation have not disappeared ; in the above examples , the duration of the consonants remains more or less what one would expect for a two-consonant cluster . |
18 | Here the signs indicate that the cycle track ends and that cars are forbidden from entering , while the surface alterations and provision of bike parking would be what one would expect from a well-planned shopping centre . |
19 | And , to make it all seem almost too good to be true the total number of possible W particles seen by both UA1 and UA2 is just what one would expect from the total number of proton-antiproton collisions that the two experiments have observed . |
20 | This , indeed , seems to be what one would expect from the point of view of intuitionist philosophers in general . |
21 | From everything I have said , I am sure that my Hon. Friends will agree that it is a model pension scheme , which is what one would expect from the public sector . |
22 | This is what one would expect in a process that feeds back positively on itself , further promoting the conditions that got it going in the first place . |
23 | erm it may be that erm because of my generation , but you do n't get the same sort of personalities nowadays as you did in those days , erm Mr for instance he was , he was a most benign sort of erm fellow of what one would describe as a real gentleman mm , mind you he used to have his paddies at times but |
24 | The other tracts which were written by Lothar before he became pope show a pastoral concern , an interest in almsgiving , in sin , in penance , in the sacrament of marriage and in the priestly office ( " De sacro altaris mysterio " ) : perhaps what one might expect of a Paris theologian of this period . |
25 | Diphtheria and measles , against which mass vaccinations have also been instituted , showed fairly abrupt falls immediately after introduction of the respective vaccines and indicate what one might expect of a successful programme . |
26 | How many of the 200 knights should be counted as members of Lisiard of Amboise 's household can not be determined ; the number is rather more what one might expect of the household of a great prince . |
27 | He is described as playing tricks on Jewish moneylenders in order to finance his soldiery , and generally behaving in a manner very far from what one might expect from the deeds of similar heroes such as Roland , Ogier or Lancelot . |
28 | Fuel burn at around 11 gallons per hour was what one might expect from the power plant , and the aircraft would undoubtedly benefit from turbo-charging although as always the trade-off in this is going to be increased maintenance costs . |
29 | The pool-liners which fall into the next category are what one might call in the medium-price range and represent good value for the average newcomer to water gardening . |
30 | I can hardly forebear , I 'm sorry for , if it 's er , a bad pun , but er , I can hardly forbear to say that it may be that I , that diocese can do with what one might describe as a dash of the Robin Hood 's , which I think Alan may er , bring to it . |