Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right so has anybody got any sort of strong opinions about who should go ? |
| 2 | No one will now make the mistake of thinking that industrial employment is ‘ impossible side by side with crofting ’ , but it is still possible to make the contrary mistake of thinking that agricultural improvements by themselves can make a significant contribution towards a permanent solution of the crofting problem . |
| 3 | Ahead of me was an elliptical circle of maybe twenty people , the combined ages of whom must have seventy score and ten . |
| 4 | The House suggests that Exxon pay $1.2 billion damages together with a $500 million criminal fine and a civil penalty of $700 million , prompt payment of which would allow immediate implementation of environmental restoration projects . |
| 5 | During and after the presidency of Andrew Jackson ( 1829–60 ) , a lively and pluralistic competition between the economic and political elite over who should direct the nations affairs was apparent . |
| 6 | The decisions you make concerning the right goals for you will depend on your current weight , your optimum weight , and the eating and exercise habits you recorded in your preparation phase . |
| 7 | And I suppose it 's up to us like the erm the old stagers to we should know better and I think Tom the Union chap , he 's he can see that and he wants to avoid it cos he 's got to speak to the lot of them ? |
| 8 | He puts great emphasis on the difficulties of prediction , and urges that where there are rules to which people do in fact adhere for the most part , and which help maintain the social stability required for any kind of good to flourish , we are likely to come nearest to doing what is objectively right ( in terms of its actual consequences ) if we also stick to the rules , but that where the rules , however useful they would be if generally obeyed , are widely flouted we should make a direct judgement of what will have the best consequences . |
| 9 | A more definitive response to him must await the time which will probably arrive when the clergy ordination measure is taken on the Floor of the House . |
| 10 | However , when they begin to suggest what these factors might be , it emerges that they have markedly different conceptions of what will provide an adequate explanation . |
| 11 | This well known fact was somehow never discussed in public by the girls , for public admission of it would have destroyed and inhibited its oddly private thrill , and would have shamed the vain ones into cowering in their cubicles , as the timid and modest already did . |
| 12 | The Dutch , for example , had what at least from their own point of view were admirable and generous plans for what might have turned out to be an independent Indonesia ; but , like the French , had failed to persuade their Republican adversaries that their ultimate freedom was assured in European hands . |
| 13 | As for the first , it should be remembered that for an Epicurean the worst pain is the groundless fear of what may happen after death , and that excessive unnatural desires are painful too . |
| 14 | According to Eadmer there were over sixty in about 1080 , and a high proportion of them must have been Englishmen of the old foundation . |
| 15 | I think that for once we need feel no qualms in taking Diodorus as a faithful epitomizer of what must have been a compact and careful section of Posidonius on the slave war in Sicily . |
| 16 | The transfer ratios differ in different applications of what might appear to be the same thing : V8 Ninety — 1.222:1 ; V8 One Ten — 1.410:1 and V8 Range Rover — 1.192:1 . |
| 17 | So although the two models are observationally equivalent they are different in that they make different predictions about what would happen if the economic environment changed . |
| 18 | He demanded to know of another ambassador 's wife , no longer young , what kind of impression an old and unfashionable woman like her must give of Britain abroad : why could n't she look as attractive as the young woman opposite ? |
| 19 | ‘ Mail Newspapers and other newspaper proprietors clearly attach a great deal of importance to maintaining their goodwill and reputation with their readers by exercising careful control over who can advertise in their newspapers and what kinds of advertisements appear there , ’ the judge said . |
| 20 | But it is appropriate to ask whether the brutal attack on her would have happened if she had been armed with the kind of baton the Home Secretary has banned . |
| 21 | For all his socialist language he was really an old style Tory Radical , despising the ‘ system ’ yet not possessing a clear vision of what would replace it . |
| 22 | Only the historic fact that he gave the Irish capital the first public performance of what would become the most popular of all oratorios . |
| 23 | The group 's remit was to credit back all unwanted items to stores : to give the storekeeper a clear list of who could order materials : to identify what key stores items should be kept on site : and to monitor every item received by the plant each day . |
| 24 | In men undergoing elective inguinal hernia repair a very detailed account of what might go wrong does not increase patient anxiety significantly and has the advantage of allowing patients a fully informed choice before they consent to surgery , thus reducing the potential for subsequent litigation . |
| 25 | But until last night , there had been no clear line over what would happen in future years to the Government 's remaining holdings in these utilities . |
| 26 | It may result from inconveniently timed appointments or travel difficulties ; or it may be because the patient lacks clear understanding of what will happen if he does attend . |
| 27 | It is much more closely concerned with how closely the police adhere to the kind of standards the public expects from any large organisation , including promptness , a sympathetic attitude which indicates individual attention , some conspicuous activity and clear information about what will happen next . ’ |
| 28 | Two contrasting examples of what can happen when music is borrowed are Tomassini 's arrangement of Scarlatti 's sparkling music for Massine 's The Good-Humoured Ladies and the arrangement of the same composer 's music for Cranko 's The Taming of the Shrew which merely gives overall and rough phrase rhythms as time-keepers for a three-act ballet . |
| 29 | Be careful during team matches if you are heavier than your opponent , because what seems like a light tap to you may prove a sledgehammer to him , and may result in a penalty . |
| 30 | In Dhondt 's view , Charles was the arch-squanderer of the fisc , his reign the critical period in the formation of territorial hereditary principalities in what would become France , for it was Charles who allowed the amassing of countships and once-royal estates by great regional magnates . |