Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If our constitution does not altogether submerge us in wishful thinking , that is because pain and misfortune force themselves on attention from outside . |
| 2 | I can only describe it as naked lust . |
| 3 | We felt we could only do it through local pressure , using the media and direct action ’ , a member of the group recalled . |
| 4 | We can only stop it by international agreement and enforcement . |
| 5 | The ongoing commitment can only hold us in good stead in the eyes of our established and potential clients as a company of recognised capability . |
| 6 | If we want to keep the best scientists and the best engineers in this country , we 'd better do two things : we 'd better attract them with good pay and we 'd better train them right and give them the proper facilities . |
| 7 | She did not merely like him , did not merely hold him in high regard ; she was in love with him ! |
| 8 | The fact that the subject believes himself to be been falsely suspected will not necessarily protect him from criminal liability if he should over-react . |
| 9 | The statistically ‘ typical ’ rapist — the man who rapes one woman he knows — does not make it to front-page coverage , let alone fifty-nine pages across thirteen newspapers over ten days . |
| 10 | The Final will not make it onto American TV screens until four months after the event . |
| 11 | The tribunal will generally compensate you for lost fringe benefits , although putting a figure upon them is often another exercise in guesstimation . |
| 12 | They do not repeat : ’ Do not bring us to the test , but save us from the evil one ’ , or , ’ Do not bring us to hard testing . ’ |
| 13 | Ragusa was able , however , to develop its overland trade with the Balkan hinterland , as this activity did not bring it into direct competition with the seaborne trade of Venice . |
| 14 | She could not provide him with small talk , or prod him to abandon his silences . |
| 15 | Hollywood studio chiefs do not see her as prime material to star as tough-talking Det Chief Insp Jane Tennison . |
| 16 | They could not use it in real life … |
| 17 | She had aged in four years , lost whatever attraction she had ever had , and it made her miserable to realise this son would not remember her without grey hair . |
| 18 | You could just see them at low water and er that was one of the danger points but I 've never seen ships coming close to Skerrymor at all . |
| 19 | She started to count how many people , who might not confess it in simple language , were relieved MacQuillan had gone . |
| 20 | Lower courts will be bound by that precedent , while superior courts or those of the same rank will not upset it without reasoned consideration . |
| 21 | It is just that he will not apply it to future pension rights because he is not in the least interested in defending workers ' pension rights . |
| 22 | I would not recommend them for submersed cultivation and I do not believe that a reputable aquarium dealer would sell you those plants as aquarium plants . |
| 23 | Surprise ( in the sense studied in Baillargeon 's experiment — passive capture of visual attention ) is not an action so it can not tell us about central system function . |
| 24 | ‘ We must say to the public , ‘ you can not leave us without moral guidance on this . |
| 25 | ‘ I am not playing , ’ she informed him fiercely , ‘ and I shall not leave you without due notice , however inconvenient . ’ |
| 26 | I know they do not hold me in high regard . |
| 27 | She wanted to be gone before the police arrived and Ayling did not press her with convincing enthusiasm . |
| 28 | It is important to recognise that the research itself , and its setting , inflicts its own contingencies on the choice of indicators : research using interviews will have to use indicators that are largely constructed out of respondents ' answers to questionnaire items whereas observational studies , and Lazarsfeld did not preclude them from variable analysis in principle , would have to use others . |
| 29 | At least he states his beliefs as they really are , and does not mould them to electoral advantage . |
| 30 | I just thought , yeah , I could just get him into big shit now ! |