Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [noun sg] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is to be hoped that in the course of time the word ‘ fear ’ used in the context of the foregoing will be abandoned in favour of the word ‘ foreboding ’ , for the conscience , once properly developed should give warning rather than frighten , and therefore enable the individual to avoid that which could give rise to real fear . |
| 2 | The staff member who is the first to encounter the death should summon help immediately and reassure any other residents who may be present . |
| 3 | This is not to say that such courses would not also encourage an awareness of wider theoretical implications or the kind of appraisal I have associated with education , but this would be more in the manner of a long-term investment rather than something expected to yield immediate returns , something which might influence attitude rather than instigate action . |
| 4 | There were also new rules for the periti , who henceforth might give advice only when asked . |
| 5 | In houses built from local materials , furnished in traditional ways by country craftsmen , the imagination sought to rediscover a way of life in harmony with the human community that produced it : ‘ In these English farms , if anywhere , ’ E. M. Forster writes in Howards End ( 1910 ) , ‘ one might see life steadily and see it whole … connect without bitterness until all men are brothers . |
| 6 | Let me pay and then we 'll have lunch together and do some catching up — unless you 're meeting someone , of course . ’ |
| 7 | She longed to wake him so that they could make love again but did not dare to because , for all the intimacy of the previous hours , Constance knew that she was lying next to a virtual stranger . |
| 8 | Together with the right kind of support we could have fun together and achieve so much for ourselves and our diocese . |
| 9 | If someone ca n't read aloud competently , this does not mean he ca n't read at all : consider the number of us who could read French silently and understand it , but who would find it very difficult to " sound it out " and read it aloud . |
| 10 | Its effect may produce dispersal rather than crowding according to the characteristic response repertoire of the species . |
| 11 | It would carry conviction only if located in a convincing scenario for sustained modernisation and growth — which no one is convinced Labour has . |
| 12 | Similarly for example 3 , syntax would choose are over arc , and for example 2 , semantics would choose dog rather than clog . |
| 13 | Were such a proof to be successfully produced , moreover — in other words if Anselm were shown to be right — then from our point of view such a success would undermine faith rather than establish it . |
| 14 | ( 4 ) Finally , I have the unchallenged evidence from her father , supported by her boyfriend , with no evidence from the mother to contradict it , that , as I noted in his evidence , ‘ I have no doubt in my mind that [ Miss T. ] would take blood rather than die . ’ |
| 15 | However , some of my medical and scientific friends now suspect that some women burn up only 1,500 calories daily — so obviously , on this intake , they would maintain weight rather than reduce surplus fat . |
| 16 | When the party is in government and the party leader is prime minister , the election shall take place only if requested by a majority of the party conference on a card vote . |
| 17 | No , he would lose time rather than gain it , and a horse would be little help to him , for he 'd have to go downstream to the ford . |
| 18 | Perhaps we would fling pride aside and ask someone for the price of a cup of tea , actually intending to spend it on that . |
| 19 | It will combat recession now and build sustained and sustainable recovery for the future . |
| 20 | Paktar is co-ordinating a " do-or-drown " protest , in which she and local villagers will risk submersion rather than lose their land . |
| 21 | On return visits , they will take advice readily and gain better knowledge of the kitchen . |
| 22 | ‘ It may be that in some parts of the country the trade off will emphasise accountability more and cost less . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I am northward bound for Cape Wrath , ’ said Creggan purposefully , ‘ and will find territory there and make it mine . |
| 24 | The court may order transfer forthwith or invite written representations from the parties or fix a hearing date to consider the matter . |
| 25 | The need for such a sketch is obvious when one recalls that ritual and ritualistic ideas can make sense only when taken in reference to a total structure of thought and system of social and historical reality ( most of which I shall , of course , be able only to touch on here ) . |
| 26 | Modern electronic indicators have a probe in each exhaust pipe , and can show temperature individually or scan to give an average reading . |
| 27 | The fires , which are concentrated on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo , have been blamed on a combination of four months of low rainfall and the after-effects of widespread logging , which have left large swathes of comparatively parched land on which fires can take hold easily and spread to secondary forest growth . |
| 28 | The advantages of friendship are that you have someone who can help you in any difficulties , you can have fun together and share the same experiences . |
| 29 | ‘ If you can find Cobalt quickly and finish with him equally quickly , then you 'll be able to come along , ’ he offered . |