Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sitting at right-angles to them ( on either side of the corner of a table ) or even alongside them will make for more harmony . |
| 2 | Moran was neither rich nor poor but his hatred and fear of poverty was as fierce as his fear of illness which meant that he would never be poor but that he and all around him would live as if they were paupers . |
| 3 | Immobile in his throne on Earth , that godly paragon who was so old that his personal name had long been forgotten both beamed out a beacon and sensed the flow of Chaos , through which his starships must swim and out of which could congeal … abominations . |
| 4 | Faced with opposition from his own forces , Franco was not guided by ideological principles nor personal loyalty , but purely and simply by whatever would keep him in power . |
| 5 | Yeah but can you imagine cos then like she 'll go out to the pub or something , get drunk and then like someone will come up to her and she 'll be like no I ca n't cos he 's in Saudi Arabia , you know it 'll suddenly er hit her I mean why not , he 'll never know . |
| 6 | But in between we should imagine a gap in the tageia : Plutarch ( On the Malice of Herodotus , xxi ) says that Leotychidas ‘ ended the tyranny ’ ( temporarily ) ; and if Echekratidas was a Spartan nominee whose tageia went right back to 476 his Athenian alliance is harder to explain . |
| 7 | There has been difference of opinion not merely over the content of any explanation , but also over what would count as an explanation . |
| 8 | When the deadline for judging whether the republics should be recognised arrives in January , will the 12 Foreign Ministers meet again to decide collectively whether the criteria have been met and whether all of them will recognise or not recognise the republics ? |