Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun pl] [modal v] " in BNC.
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1 | There was now no obvious ally to whom Scottish Protestants could look . |
2 | An appeal has now been launched to encourage more donors to come forward — without them some patients will die . |
3 | This is all very well for the youngest generation of mountain lovers , but there are surely many grown-up readers , to whom metric measurements will convey only inaccuracy and confusion . |
4 | It refers only to university graduates , whom some employers may assume ( partly on the basis of A level grades ) to be more ‘ able ’ than polytechnic or college ones , and for whom therefore the ‘ screening for ability ’ function of a degree for general graduate employment may be relatively more important ( Gordon 1983 ) . |
5 | Precisely who falls into the outer circle of effective kin , or the inner circle of intimate kin , is not entirely predictable in individual cases , although people normally do have a fairly clear notion of two different categories , for whom different terms may be employed . |
6 | Wooden pegs in your sole , they used to drill 'em and they used to put wooden , and them wooden pegs would n they 'd never come out , cos if you put nails in , the nails would rust . |
7 | Now , however , he , Alfred and their sister Godgifu were abandoned to what must have looked like permanent exile in the Norman court ; Edward was doubtless on his way there when he visited the monastery of St Peter 's Ghent in December 1016 and , according to a charter , promised them English lands should he become king . |
8 | My Spanish players must have a strong , physical approach . ’ |
9 | It was an existence conducted as if in poverty , but my adoptive parents could not actually have been poor ; still , it was ruled by insistences on not wasting , on eating everything up , on being grateful , on saving light and water . |
10 | I feel assured that you as well as many of my scientific friends will be happy to hear that we are thus far safely on our Voyage and that the whole of our party are quite well . |
11 | That brief story you told about how my physical appearance might affect my social interactions and my social interactions might affect my psychic make up . |
12 | I am sure you will agree that I must do so , because my front-man activities must cease sometime … |
13 | Will he assure me that my unemployed constituents will no longer be dealt with by faceless bureaucrats but will be dealt with by individuals who are clearly identifiable and that my unemployed constituents will be treated as individuals ? |
14 | Will he assure me that my unemployed constituents will no longer be dealt with by faceless bureaucrats but will be dealt with by individuals who are clearly identifiable and that my unemployed constituents will be treated as individuals ? |
15 | I other day I tried to work out where my favourite resorts would come in the German magazine 's top fifty . |
16 | My favourite lessons would have been Art and Composition . |
17 | My hon. Friends may fear that in some parts of the country we shall return to the oppressive and unfair bills which people received under the rates system . |
18 | I do not think that the hon. Member for Edinburgh , Central , his hon. Friends or the majority of my hon. Friends would say that the Government were wrong , rather than giving no status to people who have been in this country for a number of years , to have given them exceptional leave to remain . |
19 | There are points on which my hon. Friends would like HMI to comment . |
20 | Being a property tax — there is not now any contention between the two main parties about that — we can either tax the kind of house and say , for example , that all three-bedroom properties shall be taxed the same , in which case my hon. Friends should be aware that we would soon have tremendous anomalies as the same tax is placed on a Mayfair flat as is put on a flat in a mining village , or we can have regional banding , and then there must be boundaries between regions . |
21 | From everything I have said , I am sure that my Hon. Friends will agree that it is a model pension scheme , which is what one would expect from the public sector . |
22 | Some of my hon. Friends will be grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his advocacy of the rural cause . |
23 | My hon. Friends will recognise that there is no conflict between the commitment to care and that to run the health service efficiently . |
24 | All my hon. Friends will remember the reception that was given to Labour 's alternative to the poll tax . |
25 | I hope that that puts the matter beyond doubt , and I believe that my hon. Friends will greatly welcome that important development in the new council tax . |
26 | First , I hope that my hon. Friends will commit themselves to referring every one of these privatised monopolies to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission during our first period of Government . |
27 | We must have the proposals in it , so I hope that all my hon. Friends will support the motion . |
28 | Many of my hon. Friends will take revenge on me for making that remark , because the Whips hijack hon. Members into taking part in , and thereby lengthening , long and tedious debates . |
29 | Those practices must be brought to an end , and I know that my hon. Friends will strongly support the Government when we say that enough is enough and that if we are to have a compulsory competitive tendering regime , it must be one under which the private and public sectors are able to compete with absolute equality . |
30 | I hope that my hon. Friends will support the Bill , because the principle of a terminal station and an international channel tunnel station at King 's Cross can not be challenged . |