Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For one reason , space is almost a vacuum , so that molecules erm are few and far between , and one thing about chemistry it is really the science of not particularly molecules but molecules that react with one another , but here once one has got a molecule in space it does n't actually meet another one for a very long time , so even a molecule that is reactive and which may only last for maybe a microsecond in the laboratory , interstellar space it may last for a thousand years . |
| 2 | A party that had thrown itself so uncompromisingly into the campaign against Home Rule , and which had long ago accepted the need for " organization " in domestic affairs , could hardly accept for long the leadership by ineffective compromise which was what Asquith offered . |
| 3 | It may well take at least the lifetime of a Parliament to put things right , but Labour will start immediately . |
| 4 | The assembly , in which all parties receiving more than 5 per cent of the vote would have seats on a proportional basis , would thus act as both a constitution-making body and as a legislative assembly . |
| 5 | Would normally exclude at least the Executive Summary . |
| 6 | Of course there remains a core of consistency which would normally outweigh by far the fluctuations . |
| 7 | They would possibly attack with all the more force , to avenge him . |
| 8 | It might be that in a list of names every tenth name is the leader of a section of ten people ; to sample by every tenth would then result in either a sample of nothing but leaders or a sample with no leaders at all . |
| 9 | A level-top , apart from its looking well , was emphasized for a good economic reason : if the ploughland was level , the drill coulters would bite in at an uniform depth , and sow the seed in the same way ; the ears of corn would then mature at approximately the same time and all the seeds of corn would be approximately the same size . |
| 10 | In this case , latent inhibition and habituation would indeed reduce to essentially the same thing . |
| 11 | The evaluation dimension of the project will thus focus on both the nature and degrees of cultural learning during the year and on the feasibility of extending the training of students in ethnographic concepts and techniques to other non-specialist tutors in the same and other institutions of higher education . |
| 12 | H. lapillus will usually spend at least a day on each prey item and in some instances the time may be nearer a week . |
| 13 | If there is a doubt as to its meaning , the question will usually have at least a central kernel of meaning that is relatively clear . |
| 14 | Far from the hive , though , the person will probably escape with only a single sting , because the same alarm chemicals cause the other bees to return to the hive . |
| 15 | The club , who are founder members of the Welsh FA , will now apply to either the Richards Builders Mid-Wales League or the Read Construction Welsh National League . |
| 16 | You will now have at least a nodding acquaintance with twelve reference books . |
| 17 | That meeting , which could occur as early as two weeks ' time , will then declare at least a three-month gap in meetings to fulfil the Unionist precondition for talks and clear the way for the first of a three-stage set of inter-party and inter-government negotiations to prepare a new British-Irish Agreement . |
| 18 | e. we can only choose between so a and sew a once we know that the following word is seam ) . |
| 19 | Quick action is vital , since anyone who stops breathing can usually live for only a few minutes without help . |
| 20 | If Cleo wants to be present , she can simply watch from outside the circle . |