Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] [pron] [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN Ulster school is considering action against its town 's deputy mayor for saying it should be shut down for teaching a new sex education project . |
| 2 | The future of a novel in the process of composition is always vague , provisional , unpredictable — if it were not so , the labour of writing it would be too tedious to bear . |
| 3 | Because of the sensitivity of the subjects under consideration , the highest recommendation in considering who might be suitable to sit on these investigations is the fact that they have a safe pair of hands . |
| 4 | But the diagrams have the advantage of indicating what might be going on . |
| 5 | In addition to this kind of recording there may be a good case for producing your own teacher training materials , based on in-house recording . |
| 6 | And one of the main advantages of these very compressed and arduous courses is that they give students approaching drama school entry an opportunity of seeing what will be required of them should they gain a place at drama school . |
| 7 | As my right hon. Friend prepares himself for the important meeting with President Yeltsin later this week in London , will he take the opportunity of seeing what can be done to deal with the massive threat which still exists from all the different independent Russian states ? |
| 8 | A time when ‘ the act of dreaming itself will be punished ’ ? |
| 9 | This will be much harder to achieve if you start with the leash held vertically because the act of lowering it will be distracting for the dog . |
| 10 | This is the only type of stretching which should be carried out before exercise when the muscles are cold . |
| 11 | While I had been in there there 'd been a day or two of beautiful weather which we did n't know much about inside , although there was one big window where we used to go and sit and have a smoke — the ones who were getting better — and you could see a big tree from there , so you sort of felt it must be nice outside , and the people who came in from outside were n't so muffled up . |
| 12 | And now last comes my brave boy , my pet , dear Will , the one we are anxious about … what sort of man you shall be . |
| 13 | But if the electorate is indeed of a mind that it is ‘ time for a change ’ , then it should consider carefully just what sort of change it would be letting itself in for . |
| 14 | And if she left it , God alone knew what sort of mess there would be in the morning . |
| 15 | He felt it would soon be the moment to make a move , and her behaviour left him in little doubt as to what sort of move it should be . |
| 16 | But if you , too , see life through such dark spectacles , perhaps a book with a murderer her , with whom your readers are going to sympathise if you can possibly make them ( notice how in the later Ripley book Patricia Highsmith shows him as a loving gardener ) or with any other sort of anti-law hero , this is the sort of work you should be addressing yourself to . |
| 17 | The two of you — and your lawyers — will look at your financial position , at your wife 's , at how long you 've been married , whether or not she 's working ( and if she is n't , what sort of work she 'll be able to find ) and eventually come up with a sum which is supposed to be fair to both of you . |
| 18 | Tulu admitted : ‘ I knew what sort of race it would be . |
| 19 | Er just to run through what the two what the two schools sort of think it will be fair to say that the traditional school thinks as follows . |
| 20 | So although agencies can now see what sort of approach they should be making in women 's development policy , and are looking at their lives in their entirety — not just as baby machines , the agencies are restricted by the IMF and World Bank conditions in what they can do . |
| 21 | But since this is sometimes exceedingly difficult , he would be unwise to say exactly what sort of traces they should be ; for he would then be vulnerable to the criticism that in some capitalist formations these are simply not to be found . |
| 22 | This gives potential franchisees the confidence of knowing they will be dealing with a reputable company . |
| 23 | Now it 's one thing to say well , you know , perhaps these are women who take more exception than other women would do , but there comes a point where you have to accept , I think , that there 's going to be a shift of perspective , that what women have customarily put up with is no longer what they wish to put up and that I think we ought to be , as it were , acknowledged to have the right or the scope to say we want things to change , and to define or to set out in a process of defining what should be sexual appropriate sexual behaviour in future . |
| 24 | As part of the process of clarifying what might be meant by brainwashing , I proposed a working definition of what it might mean to make a choice : |
| 25 | Disengagement is not something that should be avoided , but is part of the natural process of ageing which can be readily accepted . |
| 26 | Evaluation , then , is the process of specifying what might be called the transfer value of ideas . |
| 27 | What the outcome of seeing him might be is beside the point ; I have become incapable of calculation . |
| 28 | In Darlington , where the Neighbourhood Watch scheme is supposed to be the biggest catch all since the trawl net was invented and where you can get into terrible trouble for suggesting there might be holes in the net the number of burglaries from houses has increased by 25pc in a year . |
| 29 | Once you are in the habit of reviewing it can be done , alone or with others who participated in the experience , in about five minutes fiat . |
| 30 | To put the matter simply , they have the role of deciding what should be taught and when , with the specialist teacher as adviser giving guidance in the case of the visually handicapped pupils as to ‘ how ’ . |