Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Combat gear should stay out of clubs and back on squaddies and serial killers |
| 2 | We should not expect that research will come up with recipes and remedies which will work whatever the circumstances . |
| 3 | Mothers can give each other confidence , but on the other hand , all sorts of nastiness and competitiveness can grow up between women when motherhood is in question . |
| 4 | Up to now , the Government , rather than the UN , has met the cost of the 3,000-strong British contingent and the UN presence could go on for years , he said . |
| 5 | Still the Japanese refused to surrender and it appeared that the war might drag on for months , even years , at terrible cost . |
| 6 | One of the most important gifts a teacher can pass on to pupils is a sense of control over one 's life . |
| 7 | He issued an order that all the able-bodied men in the garrison should turn out with shovels during the rare intervals between the downpours . |
| 8 | The helium would seep up through fissures , and hence its natural occurrence near the hot springs . |
| 9 | He avoided travelling , and if he had to fly , he went only on charter flights , for fear that on a scheduled airline his name would show up on computers that could be tapped by Iran Air officials . |
| 10 | If the hon. Gentleman will think back to days gone by , he will remember that such questions have been perennial in the few weeks before a general election . |
| 11 | It pays to examine all gutter brackets and clips to ensure no water will drip on to walls . |
| 12 | Flaws , even those under the surface will show up as anomalies under an ultra violet lamp . |
| 13 | Gutters will overflow , often by no means gently and valley water can back up under tiles and underfelt , until it spills over into the room below . |
| 14 | RESIDENTS of Rock Ferry can check up on developments in health care at a special awareness day tomorrow . |
| 15 | I half-hoped , half-dreaded the mast would go up in sparks and a bang when the Big Man pulled the lever ; that FAKINTIL had found a way to wrap half a dozen shearing charges around the legs . |
| 16 | And I did so : the Ancient Mariner but without his enthusiasm , knowing that my story would spread out in waves , carried by travellers inside and outside South America . |
| 17 | She needed strength : her and Bernard 's nightly love play would go on for hours , limbs lurching and surging in some kind of gladiatorial combat as if the one who weakened first lost . |
| 18 | ‘ A typical Robson team-talk would go on for hours — no wonder the Ipswich lads in the squad had nicknamed him Mogadon . |
| 19 | In the summer , washday may happen out of doors , and can stimulate lots of talk and valuable practical experience as children add soap to the water , wash the clothes ( taking care that water does n't flood over the sides of the bowl ) , wring the clothes and peg them out on a line . |
| 20 | They also provided the food and baking would go on for days beforehand . |
| 21 | The least interesting material tends to be spun out for far too long , and the composer can fall back on clichés ( like reiterated clusters ) just at the point when a new , arresting thought is most urgently needed . |
| 22 | It follows from what has been said so far that , as stable norms can be observed through analysis of linguistic patterns , change in progress will show up as violations of the expected ‘ normal ’ patterns . |
| 23 | ‘ Developing countries are afraid funds for combating climate change will come out of funds that would have gone for development aid , ’ says Reddy . |
| 24 | An analysis may go on for years , so the free associations , and the dreams recalled , will be conditioned by the analytic process itself , the patient 's contribution increasingly representing the assumptions of the analyst . |
| 25 | Those who feel able to give a certain amount of care should sort out with doctors and social workers the conditions on which they feel able to offer it , and the extent of care they can give , before they accept responsibility . |
| 26 | The executive might turn up in trainers and the double glazing salesman in a suit . |
| 27 | It only needs someone to knock a window out and the whole thing could go up in flames . ’ |
| 28 | Success in one area of integration would spill over into others , and eventually there would be a need to coordinate and collectively govern the hitherto separate economic organizations : so economic integration would lead to political integration . |
| 29 | Receiver Peter Phillips hopes this third sale will raise up to Pounds 333,000 . |
| 30 | This is a distortion of historical truth , and the student of history must look out for clues which reveal its unreliability . |