Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [modal v] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blanche : I ca n't stand a naked light bulb , any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action . |
| 2 | Do you think women feel that they can approach you more easily than they would a male director ? |
| 3 | The EC could absorb the 16.5 million East Germans , if it came to that , more easily than it could the two countries whose applications already lie on the table in Brussels — Austria with her backward deck-cargo of neutrality , and Turkey , with her GDP well below that of Portugal . |
| 4 | In the chapters to come , contrast if you will the demanding world of the schoolroom , as our participants see it , with the world of ritual and formal genesis of a respected self in the putting on the regalia of the club that reigns on the terraces . |
| 5 | erm it does n't give an answer , but if you could the only answer it could give is that what my tables say is wrong . |
| 6 | I translated as well as I could a Scottish strath with its green basin , and the heather slopes rising from it lost to rabbits and sheep and rock . |
| 7 | What this means is simply that each time you line up a shot in the viewfinder and before you press the button , you should look on it not as an individual shot as you would a still photograph hut as one of a group of shots . |
| 8 | So always treat those in exactly the same way as you would a normal roundabout , so that you 're coming up and always assuming that people should give way etcetera in the manner in which they should unless the roundabout directs otherwise . |
| 9 | He meant amputate , as you would a diseased limb . |
| 10 | Making expressive music with the aid of such devices is easy : just switch the quantisation off and treat the sequencer exactly as you would a multi-track tape recorder . |
| 11 | 7 Remember to replace your brush roughly every three months , as you would a manual toothbrush . |
| 12 | You need to replace the brush heads as often as you would a conventional toothbrush . |
| 13 | Basically , you hold this as you would a short leash , wrapped around your bottom two fingers and tied to your glove , so that you can easily pay it out as you increase the flight distance . |
| 14 | You got out as quickly as you could the next morning otherwise they could get into your skin . |
| 15 | He tends to me as one would a convalescent child delirious with a terminal but ticklish illness ; he tends to the outermost hazards of my body ( he is so violent and so tender ) and back to a cave of foetal musk , molested by warmth . |
| 16 | Gallagher struggled ; a man cuffed him across the mouth as one would a bucking horse . |
| 17 | Erm because of having to do everything as much as we can the medieval way , if we were ordinary people and we said we wanted to tile we 'd say , oh well we 'll go out and buy some tiles . |
| 18 | If the promise was not met , could the employee use the mail message as s/he would a postal mail letter to sue for breach of contract or to support other legal action ? |
| 19 | People here get just as excited about the prospect of buying a new bike as they might a new car . |
| 20 | Spontaneous demonstrations throughout the country marked its affectionate tribute to Elena as they would a few days later , around 26 January , pour out their loyalty and love to the Comrade on his birthday — for the last time . |
| 21 | He said unions had to be ready to ‘ pressurise ’ any incoming administration headed by Mr Kinnock as hard as they would a Conservative Government . |
| 22 | Publishers which are already negotiating in Russia over translation rights will welcome the British Council/Publishers Association scheme — as they will the Russian government 's assurance in London last month that it will repay all the former Soviet Union 's to UK and other Western publishers . |
| 23 | In 1915 Dicey wrote that although federalism possessed a ‘ vague , and therefore the strong and imaginative , charm ’ there is ‘ good reason to fear that the federalisation of the United Kingdom , stimulating as it would the disruptive force of local nationalism , might well arouse a feeling of divided allegiance ’ . |
| 24 | When it comes to asking who or what theists consider God to be , on the other hand , any answer must embrace as far as it can the full spectrum of religious opinion . |
| 25 | He took her hand in his and stroked it gently , as he might an unhappy child 's . |