Example sentences of "[conj] [vb mod] [vb infin] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither lexicographers nor political theorists can or should hope to halt this process of constant revision , although they may legitimately aspire to guide or nudge it in one direction rather than another . |
| 2 | I do n't think planning has any influence or would wish to have any influence on that . |
| 3 | These users were asked whether they had used the catalogue before , whether they found what they were looking for and whether they had any particular problems or would like to make any suggestions for improving the catalogue . |
| 4 | If you have any queries or would like to discuss this matter further please telephone me . |
| 5 | Depending on the particular system used , patients would only be permitted to seek treatment from ‘ approved ’ or ‘ contracted ’ suppliers or would have to get prior agreement from their home authority to seek treatment elsewhere . |
| 6 | As an owner you generally know these symptoms or will have taken veterinary advice . |
| 7 | One firm that may have bucked that trend is Star Computers , which has raised some £770000 by selling shares on the Stock Exchange . |
| 8 | It has released guidelines on what it calls ‘ sales aid leasing ’ that should help stop future contract abuses and is assisting the Campaign with individual cases of misrepresentation . |
| 9 | He derived some comfort from Rajiv 's habitual elegance ; wearing a suit , shirt and tie that must have cost two months of his salary as an Assistant Under-Secretary of State , he was sitting at the other side of the large , uncompromising desk that the Department provides for its most senior officials , not a hair out of place and his black eyes alive with amusement . |
| 10 | Fran had to hand it to Luke : he had handled the story with a panache that must have squashed any rumours stone-dead . |
| 11 | It will include prior cerebrovascular events , major diabetic complications , recent trauma or surgery , severe hypertension or any problem that might lead to major bleeding complications . |
| 12 | However policy H two as drafted , seeks to deprive the decision maker of the ability to consider all material considerations , by the unqualified use of the words will be required to and applies this to all twelve criteria without allowing discretion to be taken into account of any special circumstances that might present to justify exceptional development . |
| 13 | And the reason why it fails as education is that there is no connecting story line — not even a glimmer of an informing theory that might help to relate one snippet of information to another . |
| 14 | But Huxley said nothing about the process that might have led one branch of the primate order to develop the upright posture and the enlarged brain that are the hallmarks of the human race . |
| 15 | cut is the branch that might have grown full strait And burned is Apollo 's laurel bough ! |
| 16 | Give me something that might have caused that situation to lose confidence . |
| 17 | She nonchalantly waved a hand in a direction that might have included any tent in the camp . |
| 18 | And that video can be obtained from Tavistock Church , in Tavistock Place it costs twelve pound fifty , with one pound fifty postage erm , but I think that it has been recommended to us and a number of the provinces have asked for copies to be made available and then maybe there are some churches within our provence that might like to have that video so that they can draw the attention of their churches to the work of the Council for World Mission . |
| 19 | Women were rarely allowed to nor could afford to join such clubs . |
| 20 | Even so … there is reason to say that I saw him , even though I then neither made , nor could have made any judgement at all , either right or wrong , about who or what it was that I saw . |
| 21 | In real life , Wilf devotes his time to dreaming up new ideas that could help make this planet a better place to be . |
| 22 | He also developed an exhaustive database on U.S. rugby spinal injuries in 1990 , and has tried to use the information to suggest Law changes that could help prevent catastrophic injuries . |
| 23 | But Mr Weston believes there 's nothing that could have prevented this accident . |
| 24 | This was obviously an issue that could have affected other EPHs , and , after consultation with the OIC and the responsible officers at the department headquarters , it was agreed to pursue the development of a user requirement that would reflect the needs of this establishment and others within the local authority as a whole . |
| 25 | It followed the discovery of a package that could have caused serious injury , writes Audrey Gillan . |
| 26 | In retrospect , for example , many Gaullists concluded that he should have formed a Gaullist movement of the kind that he formed , too late , in 1947 — a movement that could have channelled popular adulation into usable political support . |
| 27 | Robertson said : ‘ It was one of these matches that could have gone either way , but it 's very disappointing to lose all three sets on a 7-6 scoreline . ’ |
| 28 | The analysts were unable to identify any software available at that time that could have supported this volume and variety of files without considerable development . |
| 29 | These little flights of fancy , embellishments of Cairns-Smith 's own concern only one of several kinds of mineral ‘ life cycle ’ that could have started cumulative selection along its momentous road . |
| 30 | ‘ But I 'll tell you now , there are only three additives that could have had that effect on the car 's performance , and I 'll write them down for you now . ’ |