Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than invoking preservation bias or seasonal occupation of the habitat to explain the geological record , we should rule out the freezing winters and torrid summers simulated by the climate models . |
| 2 | The emergence of such standards , and the ability to re-use programs written in conventional languages , should bring down the last barriers to wide acceptance of parallel computing . |
| 3 | Information should flow up the overseas subsidiaries and to the parent ; decisions would be decentralised . |
| 4 | As a cyclist who regularly uses rail to travel longer distances , I am concerned that the proposals to privatise BR should lay down the right conditions for operators from the outset and that any legislation involving the obligations imposed on operators should specifically mention the interests of cyclists . |
| 5 | The opening speech should set out the relevant facts , summarise the evidence to be called and remind the court of the statutory criteria to be met . |
| 6 | Here , you should point out the extra costs involved in putting furniture into storage and moving into temporary accommodation , although these may be offset by the interest yielded from the temporary investment of the proceeds of sale . |
| 7 | Like gardeners , they must cast out the evil weeds and plough the matted earth into long fields and sow the seeds of future harvests . |
| 8 | Give too much and it may bring about the very conditions it is capable of curing ; ‘ Through the like , disease is produced and through the application of the like it is cured ’ , said Hippocrates over 2000 years ago . |
| 9 | That 'll warm up the old bones . ’ |
| 10 | For example , somebody might erm be homeless , but no hostel in town will take them on because perhaps they have a mental illness or a drug problem , or perhaps they are in trouble with the courts erm we can return to that hostel with the person saying ‘ Do n't worry about these other problems , just fill in the bits you can , the accommodation , and we 'll sort out the other bits ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ For all we know , if the plant breeders start producing lots of new varieties , they might select out the protective ingredients . |
| 12 | The Daily Telegraph and the magazine Tee Topics both wrote ecstatically about the course , the former proclaiming ‘ Henley is one of the most delightfully situated courses ; variety and holes so laid out you might go round a dozen times and never have to play the same shot in succession , not even on the same hole ’ . |
| 13 | I knew there would be some details that might fill in a few gaps and , indeed , I had not known that Mme G had kept in touch with Otto and that , prior to my arrival on the scene , he frequently drove over to Reine with tempting delicacies that Jean-Claude invariably refused to eat . |
| 14 | Mind you , these birds are very quick and it might pick up a few words which could be useful . ’ |
| 15 | Not when Thomas might pick up the emotional currents . |
| 16 | All the pictures he showed me looked the same messy blur but he insisted he could make out the individual features of each person . |
| 17 | His grey moustache bristled ; he was so close that Loretta could make out the individual hairs . |
| 18 | The Scapegoat had been secured by ‘ wrists ’ and ‘ ankles ’ to the inner ring and Wycliffe thought he could make out the four points where the ropes had been . |
| 19 | Gradually we could make out the shaking fronds of the trees , the thick herbs at the side of the path . |
| 20 | The atmosphere was less turbid than I 'd expected from Edward 's description — a glowing , orange-red furnace of heat in which I could make out the shadowy profiles of two pots . |
| 21 | It was difficult to see her backside in the mirror , but she could make out the pink weals which had been raised on her tender white bum-cheeks by the little squirt . |
| 22 | As he spoke I could make out the red roofs of the bungalows dotted among the green trees . |
| 23 | And as I changed tack , the harbour came into view round the headland , with the hill rising behind it , where pines grow in a sheltered spot , and then I could make out the white walls of my house through the binoculars . |
| 24 | Ahead of her , straight ahead , she could make out the grey hills on the far side of the estuary and to her right where the land first widened out and then melted away altogether , the sea flowed to the ocean , limitless , miles of moving , salty water . |
| 25 | Therefore , para. ( c ) could swallow up the other paragraphs . |
| 26 | After a few months he could strip down the simpler engines , service and reassemble them . |
| 27 | We could hang up a few politicians too. , ‘ There 's that farmer who used a plough with horses . |
| 28 | Inside , the surgeons , surrounded by dustbins filled with lopped-off limbs , did the best they could to patch up the ghastly wounds caused by the huge shell splinters . |
| 29 | On the whole the Merovingian comites have been seen as similar to the late Roman comites civitatis , and there is certainly a case for thinking that both could carry out the same duties , which included the hearing of law-suits and the enforcement of justice , and could involve military leadership as well . |
| 30 | I said I 'd tear out the dead michaelmas daisies , but the gardener had done that . |