Example sentences of "[vb base] that [subord] [art] [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And they say that after the Conablaiche would come the Lad of the Skins , ’ said the soldier , and a sudden silence fell , because everyone knew about the Lad of the Skins and the Knife of Light , and how , if you fell into the Lad 's clutches , he would take your soul and you would be thrown for ever into the Prison of Hostages . |
| 2 | Instrumental theorists ultimately conclude that while the state may have a degree of political neutrality , this is just a sham to mask the dominance of the state by the interests of the dominant class . |
| 3 | I hope that if the Minister can not accept the amendment he will take the matter seriously and will understand that we are dealing with people who , by and large , do not have the interests of the travelling public at heart , but are interested only in making money . |
| 4 | Remember that if a child can spell successfully most words when he 's writing , it 's a waste of your time to be teaching him : teach the ones who need it . |
| 5 | Porsche 's engineers reckon that although the car can corner safely at about 85% of gravitational acceleration , most owners will only need about half of that ability for normal , but still very fast motoring . |
| 6 | Critics argue that if the probe should explode on lift-off or veer off course and re-enter Earth 's atmosphere , the batteries could be pulverised , dispersing 260,000 curies of radioactive waste — more than half as much as has been released in all nuclear tests . |
| 7 | In this way , we see that before the brain can be used as an instrument for ACTION , it first has to be used as an instrument for INACTION . |