Example sentences of "[vb mod] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Could his same notion of ‘ agitational contemporaneity ’ work for Armchair Theatre as it had worked for North American TV drama ? |
| 32 | Could his intended victim have somehow guessed , from an unguarded look perhaps , that he had been marked for death ? |
| 33 | How could his beautiful champagne based sauce be indicted for murder ? |
| 34 | Could our grey plovers really have flown all the way from Arctic Siberia ? |
| 35 | member of the US Congress whom Martin Chuzzlewit meets on board the steamboat returning from Eden , a chauvinistic windbag celebrated for a speech called ‘ the Pogram Defiance ’ which , Martin is informed by another passenger , ‘ defied the world in general to com-pete with our country upon any hook ; and develop 'd our internal resources for making war upon the universal airth ’ . |
| 36 | What would my poor wife do without me ? ’ |
| 37 | Would my honourable friend be able to explain why it was that in the run up to negotiations with respect to the question of increase in the number of seats er , the German government made it quite clear that they were not interested or did n't want to have the additional number of seats and then subsequently , for reasons that have never been fully explained , we then found that er they had an additional eighteen . |
| 38 | Would my honourable friend er recognise that just up the River Thames from er the South Thames tech is the Surrey tech which is doing and excellent job with local industry in re-skilling particularly younger people and this partnership with industry , not just dependent on what the government does , but what industry itself does to try and help people get back into jobs with the new challenges that are coming from the difficulties that are presented by higher calibre needed particularly for school leavers and other and will he w would she welcome the Surrey tech 's initiative ? |
| 39 | Would my honourable friend , is my honourable friend aware that employment in London and the South East has actually risen by over two hundred in the ten years from March nineteen eighty three and will she confirm that some of the hundred and fifty thousand places in the new apprenticeship scheme will be available in London ? |
| 40 | Would my honourable friend give way , brief , very brief . |
| 41 | ‘ I could remove the ring would my whole personality change ? ’ |
| 42 | ‘ What would my esteemed partner say must be on that land before it can become a resort ! ’ she asked . |
| 43 | Would my beloved Mother survive the war years ? |
| 44 | Would my hon. Friend , the excellent Minister for Sport , agree that those who play and train for sport are the least likely to get involved in offences ? |
| 45 | Would my hon. Friend care to hazard a guess about how many fewer jobs there would be in that industry if that money had not been given ? |
| 46 | Would my hon. Friend care to comment on the chaos proposed by the Labour party ? |
| 47 | ‘ The day when I attached less importance to ( my stepdaughter ) liking me than to her respecting me , I began to treat her more as I would my own child . ’ |
| 48 | How would my own child see me ? |
| 49 | How , in my dreams , would my native town ( far in the west ) come back , with its church , and trees , and faces ! |
| 50 | My Lords , er would my Noble Friend , subjects are nevertheless best taught by those who have a sympathy for them and in the light of the fact that eighty per cent of er school pupils in the primary sector are taught , th all subjects by the same teacher . |
| 51 | If production and exchange were henceforth to be determined by those who produce and consume , what functions would their former controllers then perform ? |
| 52 | What are the main ethical problems of church-owned media , and what would their own codes of ethics look like ? |
| 53 | Teachers , it was felt , were the guardians of a politically free curriculum : if they lost their entitlement to control the learning experiences of pupils , not only would their own professionalism be undermined , but , worse , schools could easily become the agents for transmitting ‘ state-approved knowledge ’ . |
| 54 | Would their sexual fiasco last night influence his attitudes to the company ? |
| 55 | And , in an argument utterly characteristic of the mercantilist view of a conflict-ridden world , Norris raised the bogey of the old rival France ; he claimed that France 's naval power had been so strengthened by her own involvement in the slave trade that if Britain discontinued it not only would her commercial prosperity decline but she would lose naval predominance . |
| 56 | Would her own marriage be like that ? |
| 57 | What would her own stepchildren say to her divorce from their father ? |
| 58 | Nor would her own mother have permitted her to marry Memet . |
| 59 | It is highly effective , highly professional and highly regarded and in no way would its organisational change mean that it was any less committed to or capable of working on the types of renewable energy mentioned by the hon. Gentleman from tidal to wave power . |
| 60 | how would you how would you copper plate things . |