Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [adv] [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A decision to go ahead would further secure the position of Prestwick , whose future was ‘ highly questionable ’ had the ATP operation not been moved there , Mr Turner said . |
| 2 | One of the many major problems for this idea is that Broca 's aphasics usually show better performance with content than with function words even when the task is reading aloud single words : the patient given tie , and , the and ant to read aloud might well succeed with tie and ant but not with and or the . |
| 3 | In all probability the machine would be replaced once the ‘ laugh ’ was over , and failure to do so might well lead to censure from others in the Rowdies group . |
| 4 | It was the time when he had to choose between , on the one hand , learning to limit the purely sensual pleasures offered him by his physical evolution , and on the other hand , accepting that failure to do so would either destroy or delay the enjoyment of the much broader and deeper pleasures which were becoming available to him by virtue of the developing emotions within him . |
| 5 | Failure to do so may well lead to the qualifying of the published accounts . |