Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [noun prp] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Noting the lack of creases , the air of calm efficiency , the brisk , high-pitched voice , Daisy thought gloomily that Sukey could n't be more different from her . |
| 2 | It was a thousand times better that England should be a Prussian colony . |
| 3 | He ate so swiftly that Libby could n't take her eyes off him ; she remembered all they were told about behaving properly and eating slowly . |
| 4 | It was not enough that Phoebe should turn up looking like a manual worker — ( 'But , for God 's sake , Maggie , I am a manual worker' ) — and wearing a button on her overalls which said ‘ This facility is under threat from rate-capping , ’ which made boys on buses make obscene jokes ; she also had to take on the maths teacher . |
| 5 | It was not enough that God could have done what Aristotle had deemed impossible . |
| 6 | Bad enough that Richard should have annexed his girl friend , without being left with Richard 's boring wife … |
| 7 | But Gloucestershire County Council knew deep down that Whitehall would n't be happy . |
| 8 | ‘ We feel the case for the Albion is unanswerable … does the Government think that if Leyland-DAF goes down that Britain will suddenly stop needing buses , trucks and vans ? |
| 9 | In any case , she knew deep down that Alain would want this . |
| 10 | So if it never existed before perhaps that England will , one day in the future . |
| 11 | Better perhaps that Benedict should not return — though God send nothing had happened to him , for she could bear anything but that ! — for that his lost inheritance , through her fault , must prevent his ever regarding her with anything but hatred . |
| 12 | The 15 other boys in his class are having their heads shaved so that Mark will not be out of place when his hair falls out during his treatment . |
| 13 | He took a stick and poked the leaves till they glowed , orange flames flickered around the strap and the helmet began to shrivel , slowly becoming unrecognisable , so that Barnes would n't pull it out later and bring it back to the house . |
| 14 | He came over to the bed , holding up his hand to shade his eyes from the bedside light , and peering almost comically close , so that Tessa could smell the whisky on his breath . |
| 15 | Remembering all the dinners he had eaten at the Dysons ' when he had been living on his own , Bob invited Morris back to his flat one evening so that Tessa could cook dinner for him in his turn . |
| 16 | Julian mentions a case of exactly this kind : ‘ I bequeath Stichus to Titius ’ or ‘ let my heir give [ Stichus ] so that Titius may manumit him ’ ( Stichum Titio lego vel heres meus dato ita ut eum Titius manumittat ) . |
| 17 | It tried to jump off the table and had to be held firmly so that Sophie could freeze the surrounding area before lancing it . |
| 18 | So that Dunbar would be in no position to hand it over to the enemy . |
| 19 | She looked away so that Trent would n't see her misery : ‘ He told me not to tell anyone . ’ |
| 20 | Bloom must accept a particular life so that Joyce need not , and Stephen must be shown in his byronic self-deception so that Joyce need not . |
| 21 | Bloom must accept a particular life so that Joyce need not , and Stephen must be shown in his byronic self-deception so that Joyce need not . |
| 22 | A few hundred metres off-shore we congregate so that Tor can explain the best way of going ashore . |
| 23 | Sedgley was sent on for Walsh in order to protect the two-goal lead , and Hendry was given a couple of minutes at the end so that Lineker could take a well-earned breather . |
| 24 | He promptly re-employed Bobby as his assistant and gave him money in advance so that Hunt could , in turn , pay a nominal rent . |
| 25 | And so that Ven should know how truly sorry she was , she held on to him with both arms and tried to pull him to her . |
| 26 | Will he ensure that everything possible is done so that Derbyshire can have its first opportunity to have a university , in contrast with Nottingham which will have two , Leicester which will have three , and Loughborough which will have one ? |
| 27 | This to gain the maximum effect of her statement so that Mitch will propose to her . |
| 28 | After the miscarriage Dr Rollerson , Maud 's father , had insisted on paying for them to make an extended tour of Europe , so that Maud could regain her health , and James 's dream of a permanent post at St Bartholomew 's Hospital was indefinitely postponed . |
| 29 | More often Hanka Zborowska switched the lights off and they pretended to be out so that Modigliani would not come up and ask for an advance on the next day 's work . |
| 30 | Renoir had some of his canvases taken down from the wall so that Modigliani could look at them more closely . |