Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Herman explains , ‘ [ c ] ollective action may result from structural ties between firms that integrate their interest and facilitate coordination between them — such as a common ownership interest — or it may arise out of a recognized common interest or mutual business interdependence with minimal personal contact and communications among the companies and their officials . |
| 2 | The Freudian realistic view it seems to me , could n't allow you to draw either conclusion , you could n't , neither conclude , that things were better in the past and therefore we ou ought to go back to the golden age , nor , could you conclude that things will ever be any better in the future . |
| 3 | The sister did not like this at all and called the paediatrician , who examined and decided that he ought to go down to the special care baby unit after all . |
| 4 | Let's jump in at the deep end — literally . |
| 5 | In the process we may fall back on an idealized view of our own society , or take our cue from generalized impressions of ‘ Western ’ experience . |
| 6 | He has to decide whether he should stay on pending a full trial of the bitter dispute between the two men , who stood side-by-side as saviours of the financially troubled club in 1991 . |
| 7 | Curiously enough , it appears that there is no question at all which fits the adjective of a sentence like ( 59 ) closely , so that one must fall back on a metalinguistic one such as ( 60 ) : ( 59 ) the sharks remain dangerous ( 60 ) what did you say about the sharks ? 5.7 Since the property of the postverbal is one which the speaker deliberately chooses to clothe in the guise of an adjective rather than an adverb , it must , as we have already remarked , be one which is capable of being ascribed to the referential locus of the subject phrase . |
| 8 | It is for these reasons that Woolwich is not enabled or required to seek its remedy through the statutory framework , but must fall back on the common law . |
| 9 | With patterned fabric , the design must line up across the whole width of the curtain . |
| 10 | Nonetheless , manufacturers are still not pushing the business benefits of technology to any great extent — some 80% of those questioned said that bidding vendors had never formally evaluated what they should invest in from a strategic point of view . |
| 11 | When all the contributions are joined together we should finish up with a representative item using a piece of apparatus . |
| 12 | The hon. Gentleman should look back at the Labour party 's record in government before he starts to criticise ours . |
| 13 | You must keep up with the full range of your subjects — but where do you begin ? |
| 14 | If it lived up to its name , she thought , it should stick out like a sore thumb among the warm , yellowish stone of the other buildings . |
| 15 | The second type of mutation is at Phe65 , the side chain that must rotate out of a hydrophobic pocket in the apoprotein to allow SAM to bind . |
| 16 | Their main argument is that the World Cup should move around on a rotational basis , but having staged the first three tournaments , other countries have some catching up to do before it returns to these shores . |
| 17 | With the Tories moving on to more radical positions , and the Labour Party now much more centrist , logic seemed to dictate that this kind of Alliance supporter should move back to a Social Democratic outlook identical with that of old Gaitskellites . |
| 18 | However , the recommendation that some regional colleges and colleges of education should become universities was not implemented , nor was the proposal that the colleges of education should move out of the public sector to become closely associated with the universities . |
| 19 | We must face up to the harsh fact that the present social and economic pattern of farming in the EEC can no longer be maintained . |
| 20 | ‘ Must cut down on the bloody fags , ’ he told himself . |
| 21 | ‘ John Birt should pay back to the Inland Revenue all the tax avoided in his period as deputy director general . ’ |
| 22 | if I won bigger money , I should go in for a new house , which would be built to our own idea , so that we could get a bigger scullery … . |
| 23 | If , however , the dance told the bees where to go , they should go off to the wrong place ( depending on where Gould had put the light bulb ) . |
| 24 | If Papandreou wishes to continue her righteous quest , she should go back into the smoke-filled rooms of the Bâtiment Berlaymont and re-package her proposals rationally . |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps we should pass on to the home-made cakes , ’ said Mervyn . |
| 26 | You must go out on a starry night and walk about for half an hour trying to see the sky in terms of the old ( Ptolemaic ) cosmology . |
| 27 | The search for the answer must go back to the late 1960s . |
| 28 | In order to do so we must go back to the very beginning of society , explain the original trauma and then consider what consequences it has had for modern times ; for , as we shall see in a later chapter , an inability to accept the truth about ourselves and our societies is probably the most dangerous threat to the successful solution of our present cultural crisis and is certainly the chief obstacle to progress in the sciences of man . |
| 29 | Yet we must hold on to the basic idea that science discovers the truth of how the world works . |
| 30 | ‘ If Prost wants to be called champion for a fourth time he should come back in a sporting way . |