Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [pron] [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , yes , well , I 'd , I 'd , er , I 'd like to make two proposals , first of all that we formally congratulate our officers for leading the team that er , put together this successful bid , erm , but I 'd also like to say something about these concerns about the boundaries because it 's Oswestry again , amongst mainly the sort of north of the county around Oswestry , which like with the rural development area , could be left out , and , of course , economic development does n't stop at a parish boundary people cross it , it 's part of their economic activity and erm , I know that some of the sort of proposed projects put together for the use of this five B money , er , around the Oswestry area , are extremely desirable projects , er , and are achievable projects , and it would be a tragedy if er , if they were , if , if we failed to achieve them because of er , a kind of a bureaucratic dotted line which say you ca n't have the money because you 're the wrong side of the line . |
| 2 | Sense impressions produced vibrations within the brain ; two impressions received simultaneously would be linked and a later stimulus which recalled one would also recall the other . |
| 3 | We have a standard for children which assumes they can either send very strongly amplifies the distress , and therefore , we are not going to taken them terribly seriously , or at least they can actual reach much higher intensities before we do take them seriously , whereas for adults we have a different standard which , which assumes that even slight expressions of distress in adult could be serious . |
| 4 | Have a nice weekend , keep on taking the pills yeah well you know what it 's like y'know there 'll be so many people dying for this to fail well they do n't know what 's going on but but all they 'll get is one call interception which says I ca n't get through I ca n't get through , or I 've tried this number and it does n't work and blah you know usual thing but right I must keep on taking the Buffalo Bills . |
| 5 | I 'm caught in the cross-fire between on one side the US which wants to export computers , the motor and textile industries which complain they can not modernise and thus compete without a change in the law , and on the other side the Brazilian computer industry which argues we are leading them into bankruptcy . |
| 6 | Whatever our conscious reasons ( ’ No , I want to remember him/her the way he/she was ' or ‘ Not in front of the children ’ ) , a dead body is not considered to be spectacle for display in Britain , and the rationale which dictates it can sometimes disguise feelings of embarrassment that such a thing could occur in our death-defying , well-regulated households . |
| 7 | ( From which point we must not fail to understand the high importance of crypto-amnesiac inputs , as we shall see ) . |
| 8 | A previously harmful being may change and become a helpful spirit guide to an individual , at which point it will also become circumspect , if not fearful , in its relationship with humans . |
| 9 | The accomplice becomes an enemy , and in due course a victim , at which point he can only salute the irony of his being executed on All Souls , Day : ‘ This is the day wherein I wished to fall/By the false faith of him whom most I trusted ’ ( V.i . |
| 10 | Fiendishly complex and built to proprietary standards — which meant they would not work with rival machines — those mainframes locked corporate customers into a lifetime of IBM systems , software and service contracts . |
| 11 | " No , " he 'd said flatly in a manner which meant he would not change his mind . |
| 12 | In a history of Scaitcliffe School in Egham , Surrey , Mr Vickers recalled a knee injury Mr Branson suffered as a boy of 12 which meant he could never play contact sports again . |
| 13 | Despite the fact that Bill was in his mid-fifties and had a chronic heart condition , which meant he could only play for a maximum of five minutes a match , it was a good move on Fred 's part as the pub owned the cricket pitch at the rear and naturally , as captain , Bill felt obliged to hand it over to the club , and so ‘ The Tip ’ was born . |
| 14 | The jack plug was soldered on — which meant you could n't pull the lead out , you had to wrap the plug and lead around the neck before you could put it away . |
| 15 | A Morrissey fan said : ‘ By sending the original tickets you 're giving up the only proof you ever had of having bought them , which means they can just ignore you . |
| 16 | SOME disabled people may qualify for a new parking facility which means they could always reserve a space outside their home . |
| 17 | ‘ I understand you 've got a legal problem which means we ca n't go too deeply into that , but from the outside is it hurting you a little bit ? ’ |
| 18 | This may be the trade-in price of your existing car which means you wo n't have to dip into your savings . |
| 19 | Two nights bed and breakfast , full Irish breakfast , which means you wo n't need to eat until the evening ! |
| 20 | ‘ Only because you Americans insist on fighting among yourselves , ’ said Dr Neil , and began to whistle ‘ Dixie ’ , ‘ which means you can never lose … so there ! ’ |
| 21 | Meetings now on Thursdays , which means you can still attend practices at the First Aid Post on Wednesdays . ’ |
| 22 | Well , which means I ca n't come . |
| 23 | I am male which means I can not have children , I am somewhat reserved by nature so I am unlikely to be the life and soul of anyone 's party , and my chances of becoming King are very slim . |
| 24 | ‘ My mother was an only child , so my grandfather Probert entailed Gullholm on me , which means I could n't sell the place , even if I wanted to . |
| 25 | He 's serious about AA , which means he wo n't talk about it . |
| 26 | After Wentworth he will play two tournaments in Japan which means he will also miss the World Cup in his home country . |
| 27 | John Major wants to take credit for the recovery without owning up to earlier mistakes — which means he can neither praise the ERM nor bury it . |
| 28 | Five-year-old Boris Primorac suffers from a rare blood disorder which means he can not run around like other children , without severe bruising . |
| 29 | Or is it that the working class has shrunk to a level which means it can never put Labour into power ? |
| 30 | She , she 's there on Social Security which means she can only do part time education because if you 're on the Social Security you have to available to do a job |