Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean if you put your hand up to the sun you can feel it , you detect it , your eyes detect it , well you have detectors which detect them and , for example , if I want to detect something like an electron well then I can make a counter which is sensitive to charged particles like electrons , and I can allow these electrons to hit this counter and it will produce erm an identifiable electrical pulse and I can look at that and I can say this is an electron , or I can look at other particles , say , for things like helium nuclei which are called alpha particles , and I can make counters which will detect these and I can put a little piece of paper in front and I can stop off the alpha particles . |
| 2 | You will either go to an antenatal clinic at the hospital , or to your doctor 's surgery or health centre , or you may attend at both places under a ‘ Shared Care ’ scheme . |
| 3 | Charlotte Bartlett is Lucy 's warning : ‘ marry early or you may become like this ’ , that is , fussy , dependent on others , pitied , a nuisance . |
| 4 | ‘ Do not do this , ’ growled the engineering master , ‘ or you will burn in everlasting fire , and hell shall be your couch ! |
| 5 | The lake in the village centre is a great place to swim , or you can go for one of the many pools . |
| 6 | Or you can cash in some or all of your investment . |
| 7 | and it 's , and then you can book up and go and eat on the verandah or you can eat in one of the restaurants and just walk round and sit on the , any of the seats . |
| 8 | Let's just have a look at if we 've got six and four we can have six plus four or you can have six minus four we can have minus six , minus four or you can have minus six plus four . |
| 9 | Or you can write to one of the reputable colleges or organisations related to the particular therapy and ask for details of practitioners in your area . |
| 10 | Or you can write on plain paper , focusing first on what you particularly liked and disliked about a resort ; what surprises it held for you ; who it suits and who it does n't suit . |
| 11 | You can work in private practice where the clients are people who come to you for help ; or you can work for central or local government , the Magistrates ' Courts Service , or a commercial or industrial organisation , where the employer is your ‘ client ’ . |
| 12 | Now you could just vote for m motion three eight eight , and to which would say that delegates from the T U the trades councils could go to Congress , but not actually speak on any motions or you could vote for three eight eight and three eight eight and three eight nine , which of course , I 'd like you to do . |
| 13 | She may start to release her emotions fully during or after the service , or she may go through all the ritual connected with it in a daze , but sooner or later it can be expected that the flood-gates of her grief will open and she will then begin to work her way through the multiplicity of problems that lie ahead of her . |
| 14 | Leslie Henry concentrated on secondary sources that would give a bookseller the insight he or she might need on current and potential buyers . |
| 15 | Failure to obey any instructions he or she might issue in this context may amount to the statutory offence of obstruction of a police officer in the execution of his duty , for which the sentence can be either imprisonment or a substantial fine . |
| 16 | Secondly , it is seen in a whole host of tactics and alternative strategies to the simple procedure of insisting that the sufferer goes for treatment just as he or she would do for any other disease . |
| 17 | The standard must be fixed by reference to the hypothetical reasonable parent and how he or she would act in certain circumstances but must also be related to the needs of the child in question . |
| 18 | How would the reader feel if confronted by the possibility that , within the next four or five years , he or she would revert to pre-pubertal form and sexual outlook ? |
| 19 | If the refusal of a transfer effectively stops an individual 's career-route to the top , the chances are that he or she will look for another job . |
| 20 | Even if the student is not able to come up with alternative offerings of his or her own , at least he or she can say with some honesty : ‘ I believe that to be the case , and this is why . ’ |
| 21 | When a Vet first takes up running — or resumes after a long lay-off — he or she can count on one thing : several years of improvement . |
| 22 | I appreciate that the television companies have to get the best shots of the game or we 'd complain about that , but I think they should bear in mind those people who have paid to see the game and , in some cases like mine , travelled a long way to see the match . |
| 23 | Or we could go on another tour of the clubs … ’ |
| 24 | so sunil brings two more and i one = total of 10. one more volunteer ? or we could play with then men just as spain did last night to crunch european champs denmark out ? |
| 25 | Intermittent sub-parallel reflections beneath the total depth of the well may indicate further Lower Permian lavas and conglomerates , or they may originate in Carboniferous strata beneath . |
| 26 | The problems encountered may be entirely physical in nature , as with many people who are physically handicapped , or they may stem from psycho-sexual dysfunction with no physical concomitant whatever . |
| 27 | Many patients attribute their symptoms to an antecedent event ( eg , post-partum faecal incontinence associated with a perineal tear ) or they may present with chronic symptoms that have recently progressed ( eg , stress urinary incontinence or chronic constipation ) . |
| 28 | Sorry do they get that , get that this week or they 'll wait till next week ? |
| 29 | After accepting payment in dollars , oil-exporting countries can decide to keep their enlarged surpluses in this form , either in deposits or in longer-term investments , or they can switch into other currency assets . |
| 30 | They can do if they want or they can progress onto other rooms to get time back that way , but anyway , ca n't you ? we have er a target to meet on the programme of X percentage time and they will meet that far Wednesday afternoon so we have n't continued and shown |