Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [pron] [modal v] [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 | He still felt extremely nervous about what might happen once they left the warren and had decided that the best way to avoid trouble would be to keep close to Hazel and do exactly what he said . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | At first , being so aware of ourselves may seem very strange ; this is because we are not used to it . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | I pointed out that several seemingly inconsequential factors can combine to create a change that even the most cloth-eared among us would notice . |
| 7 | The terms ‘ Royal ’ and ‘ King ’ are perhaps not altogether appropriate for what would have been no more than tribal chieftains . |
| 8 | BRISTOL CITY boss Denis Smith , painfully familiar with what can happen to a manager at Christmas , introduces two wingers against Peterborough at Ashton Gate today in an effort to relieve the pressure . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The most ambitious of them could see that the largest gains were to be made in politics , and to politics they turned . |
| 11 | The perfectionist is an anxious person , always afraid of what may go wrong . |
| 12 | The change would be nonetheless profound for it would involve a revaluation of the priorities given to these claims for attention . |
| 13 | I have been more concerned with what would happen to my business if Andrew switched his manufacturing orders to someone else . ’ |
| 14 | The more adventurous among you can enjoy the ‘ white knuckle ’ rides like the loop-the-loop roller coaster or water chute . |
| 15 | M Rocard is more hopeful about what could happen afterwards . |
| 16 | Mr Rocard is more hopeful about what could happen afterwards . |
| 17 | Many local folk who earned their living on or from the river were still worried about what would happen in the end , but one man busy in his small yard behind the bustling Tower Bridge Road market did not give international events a second thought . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If anything , years of experience only made you more aware of what could go wrong . |
| 20 | Many people grow up frightened of what may come after this life because their minds have been filled since childhood with ideas of hell and damnation , judgment and punishment . |
| 21 | ‘ Anyone who gets really used to something will know what I 'm talking about here , but my stuff is pretty noisy and when I came up with a way of getting rid of the noise , I really missed it ! |
| 22 | I am frankly fearful of what may lie ahead for some of them . ’ |
| 23 | I was well aware of what would happen and I just have to accept it . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The most energetic of them may form themselves into pressure-groups of a not wholly child-centred kind . |
| 26 | As the first set of declaration reports were produced , it became apparent that development within the zones would not be significantly different from what would have occurred anyway ( Corby District Council , 1981 ; Newcastle upon Tyne , 1981 ; Swansea City Council , 1981 ) : planning controls were often retained along zone boundaries ; Special Industrial Uses , including noxious and dangerous processes , were still subject to control ; and , on occasion , environmental improvements were written into declaration reports . |
| 27 | Making forecasts in this and other areas is the actuary 's stock-in-trade for the profession is essentially concerned with what may happen in the future rather than balancing the books of the past . |
| 28 | And if you do n't want to be put onto list , censored , because obviously , that 's very important to what would happen there if you want it preserved . |
| 29 | This is very important for it can decide acceptance or rejection by universities and other higher education establishments . |
| 30 | I ca n't remember what he said — I was too worried about what would happen when he stopped — but he looked supremely confident . |