Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cut off for so long from most western visitors , the wonderful and varied scenery and marvellous historic cities will surely make this country one of the most popular tourist destinations of all . |
| 2 | Headed by Renault 's chief executive , Raymond Levy , the Association of European Auto-Makers will also include General Motors , Ford Europe and Saab . |
| 3 | Assessing the impact of government policies on the income distribution is important not only because the intention of some policies is deliberately to alter it , but also because efficiency-directed policies will invariably have some impact on the distribution of income and wealth . |
| 4 | When remarriage of the parent-with-custody takes place , the adjustment of the child to parental relationships will greatly affect that which takes place with the step-parent . |
| 5 | Small electorates can be managed by politicians , and when the typical county might number forty to sixty freeholders in its electoral roll , while even one of the more extensive lists would rarely exceed 150 voters , many of whom would be nominally qualified , there was clearly opportunity for manipulation . |
| 6 | Creole words can thus follow either of two routes into LE : ( 1 ) with their Creole pronunciation intact , as a badge of their ethnic origin and distinctness from Standard English words of the same form , or ( 2 ) in " anglicised " form , conforming to the pronunciation rules of LE . |
| 7 | ‘ At a time when political parties could n't get twenty people in a room , we had to hold overflow meetings everywhere we went , ’ recalls Priestley , ‘ I do n't think we were ineffectual . |
| 8 | Meanwhile Hellenistic , Roman and early Medieval jewellers could only treat transparent coloured stones by rubbing them smooth . |
| 9 | Different institutions may well have different costs and different maximands due to differing efficiencies or other strengths , but there is no absolute standard of efficiency , because of the informational constraints . |
| 10 | The final connections into the East German telephone cables were made by John Wyke , MI6 's top technical expert , who had to carefully splice in the connections so that the East German operators would not notice any change in line quality or impedance . |
| 11 | Different values can also lead these social groups into conflict . |
| 12 | The sociology of cultural forms can not replace these disciplines , but in its emphasis on the social as well as the notational basis of sign-systems , then seen as general signifying systems , it puts specific sociological questions and adds , to what would otherwise be internal kinds of analysis , a deliberately extended social dimension . |
| 13 | If only those French chefs would n't cook such lovely meals |
| 14 | Many British readers will not feel such change directly if they are students from a more prosperous area ( as is likely since higher education places are filled largely from non-manual social groups ) . |
| 15 | ( 2 ) Throughout your occupation you will pay rent calculated at the rate of £ per annum payable on demand in advance ( but periodic demands shall not convert this tenancy into a periodic tenancy ) . |
| 16 | I am perfectly certain , indeed I do not think any one can doubt this , that our Party on the old lines will never have any future again in this country . " |
| 17 | A crucial question is whether Britain 's small information-technology companies will ever grow big . |
| 18 | This means that if we were to take a sufficiently large and completely random sample of households from all income groups , we would expect to find that the negative and positive transitory incomes would just cancel each other out so that the aggregate or average transitory income level ( Y T ) would be equal to zero . |
| 19 | Foreign banks would rather persuade Russian entrepreneurs to deposit their profits with them than consider extending loans . |
| 20 | Without exchange controls , goes the standard retort , commercial customers could easily dodge such controls by borrowing from abroad . |
| 21 | Obviously , even in a statistically developed country it is an almost insurmountable task to achieve completeness in reporting spontaneous abortions , since an early miscarriage , particularly in the first weeks of pregnancy , can be easily mistaken as a late menses and some spontaneous abortions may not seem sufficient cause to some women for them to seek medical attention . |
| 22 | The collision of intra-oceanic arcs can also take two forms ( Fig. 3.5 ) . |
| 23 | Implied terms can thus supplement express rules , or introduce new rules , but can not directly contradict an existing rule . |
| 24 | The social sciences could not satisfy either of these criteria . |
| 25 | Maybe this is one reason for depression , then : that the book 's well-wrought arguments will not exercise those whose ideology it dissects . |
| 26 | I hope that that puts the matter beyond doubt , and I believe that my hon. Friends will greatly welcome that important development in the new council tax . |
| 27 | Most hon. Members would not appreciate that . |
| 28 | More people play it in this country than snooker and yet even the top players ca n't make enough to live on . |
| 29 | Flexing over several atoms , that is , transverse string-like vibrations of a chain rather than longitudinal or rotational vibrations will obviously require extra room . |
| 30 | To add to customers ' problems , he said , old mainframes ca n't run new software with additional functionality . |