Example sentences of "[coord] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who imagined that precise experience would know its full intrinsic nature but they might or might not realize that this was a good experience . |
| 2 | We humans , however , are not given the power to look into the mind of a penguin and must only accept that this is the best way to ensure survival of the species . |
| 3 | Whatever the legal rights and wrongs , so long as the Angevins actually held Gisors they were clearly negotiating from a position of strength and could reasonably hope that one day the King of France would be forced to concede their case . |
| 4 | In 1968 Nixon won the Presidential election , on his promise to end the war , but even he wanted victory for America and would not withdraw until this had been achieved . |
| 5 | Thirdly , our young painter would not know of any other artistic centre beside Paris and would not imagine that such a place might exist . |
| 6 | ‘ You learn what they can and ca n't do and that experience becomes useful as you go on . |
| 7 | These cells are tuned to a particular wavelength and will only respond when that wavelength alone is present . |
| 8 | Some of know that it is not working now , and will never work unless some government really faces up to the reality of the cost involved . |
| 9 | Whether or not my father was happy , I could not and can not tell because that has always been difficult , but I suspect from his outbursts of temper and the frequency of his migraines that he was not . |
| 10 | Sir : I am writing first to congratulate you all on an excellent magazine , I have been reading Computer magazines for the last 10 years and can honestly say that Practical PC is the most informative and enjoyable one to date . |
| 11 | The bureau is hard pressed for staff but may nevertheless decide that such work has wider positive influence . |
| 12 | Sometimes they possessed knowledge about sex , but could not admit that this was sexual , or that they had those sorts of desires . |
| 13 | A Portuguese Foreign Ministry official said in Lisbon on Feb. 7 that talks could start the following day but would only begin when both sides were prepared to initial documents already on the table . |
| 14 | Some species may be receiving sufficient light to grow plenty of healthy foliage , but will always lack that little extra needed to produce flowering shoots . |
| 15 | The Bishop believes in evolution , but can not believe that natural selection is an adequate explanation for the course that evolution has taken ( partly because , like many others , he sadly misunderstands natural selection to be " random " and " meaningless ' ) . |