Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [modal v] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blanche : I ca n't stand a naked light bulb , any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action . |
| 2 | Censure me in you wisdom and awake your senses , that you may the better judge |
| 3 | Do you think women feel that they can approach you more easily than they would a male director ? |
| 4 | Erm in the same way as th the glass in a greenhouse works , that it let's the radiant heat in but then it does n't let so much out , so the heat builds up . |
| 5 | The EC could absorb the 16.5 million East Germans , if it came to that , more easily than it could the two countries whose applications already lie on the table in Brussels — Austria with her backward deck-cargo of neutrality , and Turkey , with her GDP well below that of Portugal . |
| 6 | In the chapters to come , contrast if you will the demanding world of the schoolroom , as our participants see it , with the world of ritual and formal genesis of a respected self in the putting on the regalia of the club that reigns on the terraces . |
| 7 | erm it does n't give an answer , but if you could the only answer it could give is that what my tables say is wrong . |
| 8 | Under the resolution overwhelmingly passed by Labour delegates , unions would be subject to fines and there would no such immunity from civil action if they acted illegally . |
| 9 | If you 're going to have to find a much larger area you have to spread your net wider to find more and more sites for development which you might otherwise have been able to save from development , and there will an environmental cost , a cost to the quality of life of people living nearby because sites you might not wish to have developed must be included to find the target figure of industrial development . |
| 10 | And what would an ordinary person have been earning at Helliwells ? |
| 11 | ‘ And what would the usual occupant think of all this ? ’ |
| 12 | And what can the next step be to prevent it ? |
| 13 | And what will the new night be like ? |
| 14 | Mutiny by the men , and what could a Petty Officer do if the Ministry in Moscow determined that the sailors of the Storozhevoy should not be freed from their conscripted service after four years at sea , that they should serve another year , what could a Petty Officer to ? |
| 15 | She even imagined she saw Marc in the audience one night , his face just a pale blur beyond the footlights with all the others , but what would the jet-setting Marc Vila be doing in Yorkshire ? |
| 16 | These were statistical norms , but what would the post-war housing layouts actually look like ? |
| 17 | But what should a first-class playground offer ? |
| 18 | But what must the hypocritical collusion of government officials in this illegal activity have done to the way corporate officials regard laws against corporate behaviour more generally ? |
| 19 | I translated as well as I could a Scottish strath with its green basin , and the heather slopes rising from it lost to rabbits and sheep and rock . |
| 20 | What this means is simply that each time you line up a shot in the viewfinder and before you press the button , you should look on it not as an individual shot as you would a still photograph hut as one of a group of shots . |
| 21 | So always treat those in exactly the same way as you would a normal roundabout , so that you 're coming up and always assuming that people should give way etcetera in the manner in which they should unless the roundabout directs otherwise . |
| 22 | He meant amputate , as you would a diseased limb . |
| 23 | Making expressive music with the aid of such devices is easy : just switch the quantisation off and treat the sequencer exactly as you would a multi-track tape recorder . |
| 24 | 7 Remember to replace your brush roughly every three months , as you would a manual toothbrush . |
| 25 | You need to replace the brush heads as often as you would a conventional toothbrush . |
| 26 | Basically , you hold this as you would a short leash , wrapped around your bottom two fingers and tied to your glove , so that you can easily pay it out as you increase the flight distance . |
| 27 | You got out as quickly as you could the next morning otherwise they could get into your skin . |
| 28 | He tends to me as one would a convalescent child delirious with a terminal but ticklish illness ; he tends to the outermost hazards of my body ( he is so violent and so tender ) and back to a cave of foetal musk , molested by warmth . |
| 29 | Gallagher struggled ; a man cuffed him across the mouth as one would a bucking horse . |
| 30 | Erm because of having to do everything as much as we can the medieval way , if we were ordinary people and we said we wanted to tile we 'd say , oh well we 'll go out and buy some tiles . |