Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the key features of each — the limited liability company , the use of collective bargaining and the state provision of welfare — all have something of a Christian basis in terms of providing outlets for savings , strengthening the family , and correcting injustice and providing for those in need , nevertheless it is easy to see how they can become taken over by humanistic philosophy — so that they become unlimited freedom to create wealth , the use of collective power and the denial of individual merit and the state as the alternative for the family and private charity . |
| 2 | Diana Dors was never really thought of as a great actress … indeed she once described her film career as ’ a lot of make believe held up by 37 inch bra cups ’ . |
| 3 | It was all the harder because I could have given up at any moment . |
| 4 | When this was pointed out , the family 's reaction was at first disbelief and then concern , because the sale would have fallen through on this point , especially as , when they acquired the property , they had used a solicitor and a surveyor . |
| 5 | Demographic trends mean that by 1994 the number of 16 to 19 year olds will have dropped by about one quarter . |
| 6 | But for his trust in Donleavy , he would have dropped out at this point , military or no military . |
| 7 | So the delicate gilded furniture and the rococo mirrors had gone from his office ; and in their place were desks and chairs that renaissance princes might have sat on in perfect safety , even if they had weighed three hundredweight . |
| 8 | Sir Geoffrey Littler , a former senior Treasury official and a director of NatWest Investment Bank , together witha group of eight City worthies , will have reported back to another committee established by the Exchange giving an interim assessment of the issues involved . |
| 9 | Or the quarry would have carried on with this slate mine . |
| 10 | Normally she would have clammed up at that juncture . |
| 11 | Bigsun will have come on for High Easter run |
| 12 | If the investment managers had to come in they could have come in at any time . |
| 13 | He came back readily when his name was spoken ; they saw him not tools-in-hand in his lodge under the church , nor frowning thoughtfully over his tracing tables , but naked to the waist and brown in the harvest-fields , swinging a sickle instead of a mallet , a slender young fellow with grass seeds in his tangle of dark hair , who might have come out of any cottage in the hamlet . |
| 14 | ‘ They may have saved up for this holiday for years . ’ |
| 15 | Marcus could have turned up at any moment . |
| 16 | Melanie could easily have grown up into that sort of woman . |
| 17 | My children should have grown up into loyal Abbey national customers . |
| 18 | Even if I had been sufficiently knowledgeable about the NHS funding system to counter his arguments , I still would n't have felt up to political sparring . |
| 19 | If I do that that 's five hours I 'll have built up in one week . |
| 20 | My point is not that we might count the relations between parts as themselves parts — though this is not necessarily mistaken — but that the relations into which the parts enter in making up the whole affect their character and value so that they do not necessarily have the same value as they would have had out of that whole . |
| 21 | Beneath the overwhelming memories of physical delight there were fears — a fear that she might not have measured up in some way . |
| 22 | I would have thought around about 15th place would see him happy enough . |
| 23 | We might have rode along in that coach the whole night while I just stood there in front of the office . |
| 24 | It was only my threat that stopped him because if his hand had touched me I would have walked out of this house that very minute and I would n't have had to go far . |
| 25 | Could Eddie have run out of that corner deliberately because he could n't face the consequences of his gambling ? |
| 26 | They said it could have gone off at any time . |
| 27 | It could have gone off at any time . |
| 28 | This is an interesting passage because Platt B. is effectively saying that an undertaking to pay this excessive charge had been extracted from the clerk before he commenced his search and that he could not honestly have gone back on that undertaking . |
| 29 | It is hoped that Rambert will be one of the first companies to appear at the Festival Theatre when it opens next year , by which time Christopher Bruce will have taken over as artistic director of the company with which he used to be a leading dancer and choreographer . |
| 30 | So the old ones they 'd have taken back to that yard place would n't they ? |