Example sentences of "[vb infin] [subord] [art] [noun sg] [noun] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the band have achieved considerable chart success ( when they have sold approximately a million copies of their albums ) , they should consider whether a royalty examination should be done . |
| 2 | The court will look to its own law to determine whether there has been good service , sufficient in a common law system to found jurisdiction ; the same law will identify the steps required to set running the time which must elapse before a default judgment can be entered ; and the same law will , in some countries , apply to determine whether service was so defective that a default judgment must be set aside . |
| 3 | Erm the bonus element of the Pearson scheme is highly leveraged we are very keen to achieve above-average performance for our shareholders and let me give you an example , if in nineteen ninety erm Pearsons as a company achieved say five percent growth in earnings per share erm the directors ' remuneration , and by the way that 's not a forecast so I want to make that absolutely clear , it 's just an illustration if earnings per share increase by five percent and you could say , er , therefore we would expect directors ' remuneration to be perhaps increased by five percent that would n't be the case at all our directors ' salaries would actually halve erm , Ill say that again , directors ' total take home pay would halve because the salary element would n't , would n't alter . |
| 4 | One must wonder whether the book trade will continue to have the large and complicated distribution systems which it has been able to support in the past . |
| 5 | I must say erm I , I do wonder whether the district council might be enabled to say unless goods are sold from a car boot this is not a car boot sale er , therefore , we would put a ban on all commercial vans and vehicle entering these sites er that 's not being articles described in the er in the er maybe that 's something you could look at . |
| 6 | The trust will also recommend whether the investment costs should be passed on to consumers ( a decision ultimately the responsibility of the respective regulatory bodies ) . |
| 7 | Sweden is currently off the Richter price scale for British clients but Norway , euphoric at winning the 1994 Olympics for Lillehammer , is determined to regain the reputation it had for alpine skiing thirty years ago , when the annual quota of British skiers was 15,000 ; today it is 1,500 , but that will change when the tour operators can be induced to include Norwegian destinations in their programmes . |
| 8 | For the five-part piece that follows , for which the livret suggests that both strings and winds played , the score does not reveal whether the oboe band would have played as a four-part ensemble or have expanded to five parts in order to double all the strings . |
| 9 | Visitors are thoroughly searched before they are allowed in to the jail which houses two hundred remand prisoners , killers , I R A terrorists and rapists , and the investigation will examine whether a prison officer may have brought in the phone . |