Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second is that the name of the person who has been so generous to you must remain a secret , until that person chooses to tell you . |
| 2 | Still less pleasing to him must have been the prospect that if his clerks ignored the order to jettison their excess cures of souls , they would suffer excommunication with all its attendant disabilities and interruption of his service . |
| 3 | The official report states : ‘ To have forced his way into Benghazi when the enemy was obviously ready for him would have achieved nothing and would have involved the loss of his force . ’ |
| 4 | I pointed out that several seemingly inconsequential factors can combine to create a change that even the most cloth-eared among us would notice . |
| 5 | Interest is not just academic for it could lead to better industrial catalysts that mildly and selectively oxygenate organic compounds — normally an energy intensive process that is quite difficult to control . |
| 6 | The most ambitious of them could see that the largest gains were to be made in politics , and to politics they turned . |
| 7 | The change would be nonetheless profound for it would involve a revaluation of the priorities given to these claims for attention . |
| 8 | The more adventurous among you can enjoy the ‘ white knuckle ’ rides like the loop-the-loop roller coaster or water chute . |
| 9 | The more chauvinistic among us might place the marker in the calendar for 4th August of the same year when Great Britain entered the war against the central powers , or two years later at dawn on the 1st July 1916 , when the opening of the Battle of the Somme destroyed the lives or the illusions of a generation of British youth . |
| 10 | What we are going to say is simply that the parts of this diet which are easy and effortless and even enjoyable to you will become part of your normal eating in the future . |
| 11 | The most energetic of them may form themselves into pressure-groups of a not wholly child-centred kind . |
| 12 | This is very important for it can decide acceptance or rejection by universities and other higher education establishments . |
| 13 | His face too near to theirs might bring them back |