Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Considering the wretchedness for which these floating prisons later became infamous it was an unhappy endorsement and one can only assume that his short-term view of a particular problem was allowed to obscure his longer term aims . |
| 2 | There , the terrified woman could only watch as her three friends were forced to strip in the glare of the Pathfinder 's headlights . |
| 3 | But Britain will only succeed when its political leaders start treating voters as informed citizens with shared concerns , not as ignorant consumers to be manipulated . |
| 4 | He could only hope that his Chelonian captors were n't engaged in fiendish torture or had n't cut off his legs or anything . |
| 5 | It could only mean that his own future as Duke was doubly assured . |
| 6 | Sara could only suppose that her initial suspicion had been stilled , and that she accepted her , Sara , as part of the permanent scenery around the place . |
| 7 | ‘ You 'd better check that your cute friend did n't steal anything when he was down below . ’ |
| 8 | I can only say that my own experience is quite the reverse . |
| 9 | Regular users can suddenly find that their normal dose will give them extreme and dangerous side effects . |
| 10 | I would n't normally ask but me own lad is a greet big jessy and can not stand up for himself let alone kick f*** out of Roger Cook . |
| 11 | My legs went dead and , although I had a walkie-talkie , I could hardly speak because my right arm was wedged into my windpipe . |
| 12 | I am certain that in time and with courage one of us will leave this place but we must always remember that our first enemy is ourselves . |
| 13 | A solicitor may properly suggest that his own client makes personal contact with the other side . |
| 14 | As well as having samples tested , manufacturers must also demonstrate that their quality-control system is up to scratch . |
| 15 | Well you do n't bleeding know whether them other people turned up do you ? |
| 16 | Yes , middle class women have done a lot for the ‘ Women 's Movement ’ but does she really think that us working class women have been sitting on our arses doing nothing all this time . |
| 17 | And so you can really consider that your first year 's cost is not just the cost of the computer but it 's also this extra few hundred pounds for your maintenance contract . |
| 18 | But did the women really feel that their own work had been less important ? |
| 19 | The bourgeoisie 's insistence on loyalty , discipline and modest contentment could not really conceal that its real views about what made workers labour were quite different . |
| 20 | The satisfied reader , rejoicing in Marryat 's broad humour , his acceptance of and delight in the vagaries of mankind , his shrewdness and his talent for controlling the varied pace of his stories , may well decide that his greatest virtue could be the sheer confidence of the man , his assurance that the hierarchies and authority in which he has been trained and which form the basis of his novels are essential to the well-being of his country and its navy . |
| 21 | The Daily Mirror did not even pretend that its Scottish edition was the same paper and sold it as the Daily Record . |
| 22 | 252 — 5 ) to which of course the prostitute can indeed testify that it these things appear incompatible — is n't misogyny a kind of hatred , and licentiousness a kind of love , albeit a debased one ? — in reality they go hand in hand . |
| 23 | A horse that is returned to the paddock after working may only visually check that its normal companions are there , even if they are some distance away , before starting to eat the grass . |
| 24 | It is tragic that it is most unlikely that the Jewish race would ever seriously consider that its terrible sufferings can in any way be attributable to it 's religion , even in part . |
| 25 | Brook operates without parental knowledge or consent , determined that parents should never know that their under-age children are sexually active and receiving contraception , if the child requests confidentially . |
| 26 | That sort of compartmentalization has been roundly denounced by Bob Jones University and those sections of American fundamentalism with which Paisley is most at home but we will never know if his religio-political system would permit such pragmatism because the constitutional issue so overrides everything else in Northern Ireland that there is no expectation or need for him to work with conservative Catholics . |
| 27 | ‘ I would therefore suggest that you military chaps use your own sources for gathering information . ’ |