Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Someone may grab your collar with both hands in order to head-butt you in the face , or may seize you by the hair to punch you . |
2 | Indeed it did , to anybody who remembered or could visual-ise it as a busy dock . |
3 | Not that any amount of designer labels would or could reconcile her to the prospect of meeting Antoinette again . |
4 | That leaves us then with or would leave us with a substantial provision in Greater York . |
5 | Children can present data in simple block graphs , pictograms or sets , or can enter it into a computer , using suitable software , to compile their own database . |
6 | Given that over 20% of A-level papers are failed , that is reasonable : why gamble two years of lost earnings on studies that may leave you with no certificate at all ? |
7 | ‘ He may have some dreadful secret in his past that he wants to confess to you — something that may shake you to the core . ’ |
8 | In examining these conflicts and changes the particular aims of the researchers are to : elucidate the changes that occurred in the UK defence science and technology system in the 1980 's and to analyse their dynamics and interactions ; ii identify and examine the assumptions about the future being made by firms and governments to guide their current decision-making in this area ; iii consider whether clear and stable structural trends are emerging , and the factors that may influence them in the 1990's , including the transition to a single European market ; iv establish a better framework for assessing contemporary developments in defence technology policy and their consequences for other areas of science and technology policy . |
9 | There was not a soul in sight as Theda began resolutely to trudge down the street , looking for a lane that might lead her off the main road , which , being only of packed dirt , was already a hasty-pudding of mud which churned under her mercifully booted feet . |
10 | I had the radio on low , in case they interrupted the broadcast with any bulletins that might lead me to the new Night Mayor . |
11 | ‘ I 'll trade you your ‘ binos ’ for information that might lead me to the whereabouts of Dr Charity Marlowe . ’ |
12 | Many people start their marriages wondering how many affairs their partner has already had , and wondering if they can compete with the possibilities that might threaten them in the future . |
13 | She was becoming less interested in any tittle-tattle he might purvey that might help her with the case than in himself . |
14 | I 'd be lucky ter get anybody that could match 'er in the kitchen . |
15 | ‘ Secret people , ’ she said , ‘ who do not seem to have any business that could take them into the forest . ’ |
16 | The eclipses of May 21 , June 4 and November 29 set in motion changes that could put you in a new professional space by 1994 , if not before . |
17 | I wondered whether there was anything in the teaching of Tai-Fing that could get me through the next half an hour . |
18 | she could n't understand how , she said oh she said and , and a couple of channels that used to drive her up the wall . |
19 | Surgeons used long syringes to extract marrow from her pelvic bones , while a motorcycle courier waited outside to rush the refrigerated marrow to the plane that would carry it to a Dutch hospital . |
20 | Luke 's features seemed to reshape themselves momentarily , his expression become one of savage anger , and he had taken the first step of the few that would bring him round the desk to her before she saw him drag control back to himself . |
21 | Kings led them into battle for the land ( e.g. 2 Kings 8 ) and prophets pointed them to a righteousness that would bring them to a new highway , a land where mountains would be levelled , rough places smoothed ( Is. 40.4 ) , and the Prince of Peace would establish his kingdom . |
22 | By virtue of Core Rule 36 , many transactions which would fall full square within Core Rule 28 are exempted because the Chinese Wall serves to negative the firm , or certain individuals within the firm , of the requisite knowledge that would bring it within the prohibition contained in Core Rule 28 . |
23 | It was going to be well into the next bio-day , I knew , before we made all the Netline interactions that would bring us to the rendezvous point . |
24 | What norms did people learn that would blind them to the obvious ? |
25 | I had to construct a model that would lead me to a series of questions that would have empirically testable answers which would allow me to deduce an answer to my original question . |
26 | As she headed through the basement corridors that would lead her to the stairs and the stage door and thence to the waiting Joe Lucas , Josie 's thoughts barely touched on the subject of dying at all . |
27 | Colin inspected the room looking for the clues , looking for the vital piece of information that would lead him to the same conclusion as Smith . |
28 | I think our survey showed it could be as high as fifty per hectare in fact , er but we did n't have a full response to the survey and er there 's nothing er in the results that would lead us to a conclusion that it should be lower or higher , so we 're quite happy to accept that assumption . |
29 | This autumn the House of Lords will be asked to give people a legal right to choose between life and death in advance of any injury or illness that would leave them in a ‘ permanent vegetative state ’ . |
30 | So in small Japanese firms average tenure may be higher but only one in six men have the 20 years or more of tenure that would place them on the higher parts of their wage profile . |