Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The provision of state pensions for such people was a welcome addition to the incomes of the extended households they almost invariably belonged to ; it supplemented and sometimes replaced the help which lineages would otherwise have given . |
| 2 | The case , brief and obscure though it is , might well have provided a basis upon which judges could later have built to develop a principle that money demanded ultra vires by a public authority was prima facie recoverable . |
| 3 | The expertise of the adviser in the particular problem which emerges will doubtless influence the proposed course of action ( which might include a referral ) but the preliminary advisory skills may be possessed by a volunteer as by a professional . |
| 4 | What she lacks in patience she makes up for in determination which she hopes will soon see her on horseback . |
| 5 | The person who dies must normally have been resident in the United Kingdom , and the funeral has to take place in the UK . |
| 6 | Because of the consciousness of using the correct level of language in a conversation or discussion , any interpreter one engages may unconsciously modify statements going from English to Japanese and back to English again , according to the rank of the people involved . |
| 7 | LEE KE MIN Anything or anyone out of sight that one senses will never return ; an apology offered for illness |
| 8 | This will not prevent an equitable interest passing to the buyer but the court will not grant specific performance unless the seller 's lien can be fully protected and until paid in full he is entitled to vote the shares as he thinks will best protect his interest . |
| 9 | Will he share with the House his thoughts about the atmosphere that he thinks will now prevail in Cammell Laird , which finds itself unable to compete for naval orders ? |
| 10 | The numerous cracks and fissures in the walls , which on every side present themselves , denote that at no very distant period this disgrace to the parish in which it stands will effectively remove itself . |
| 11 | While what he says may not add up to a warning in the strict disciplinary sense , you should be left in no doubt about where you stand . |
| 12 | You know simple language , they wanted to know where he was coming from , but Jesus it says would not say a word in answer to any of those accusations , but then the High Priest says are you the Messiah , the Son of the Blessed God . |
| 13 | London-based controller developer Pacific Semiconductor ( Europe ) Ltd has introduced its new Laserboost board that it says can radically improve the performance of Canon Inc SX , RX and TX-based laser printers like the LaserJet II and III , Brother HL8E and Canon LBP8II for a fraction of the cost of a new machine : the board takes only 15 minutes to install and costs just £380 ; it features Hewlett-Packard Co PCL 5 printer language , eight scalable fonts , a 20MHz 68020 processor , proprietary ASICs and Direct Memory Access through the parallel port ; it also has from 2Mb of memory , one independent and two parallel ports , offering HP7475A plotter emulation . |
| 14 | Once again , the kind of play and the extent of mathematical experience which it includes will inevitably vary . |
| 15 | Members of the National Front , the opposition the Shah had crushed in the fifties and ignored ever since , leftists , rightists , monarchists , republicans , dentists , doctors , lawyers — almost anyone it seems could finally get into see His Imperial Majesty . |
| 16 | The leaders of the groups that he mentions might well come to some sort of compromise — I might have achieved that — but I would not be able to command a majority of Members , who have other ideas . |
| 17 | For Link project manager Mr Ken Lee , it is the first step in a scheme which he hopes will soon cover 600 Darlington companies and generate £2m . |
| 18 | And when Mr Kohl speaks in a way he hopes will not antagonise the Kremlin , he does so with an eye on the 350,000 Soviet troops still sitting in Germany . |
| 19 | There is otherwise a grave danger that the people whom he addresses might well regard the policeman as a rival lout . |
| 20 | A broad interpretation of what it means would greatly expand the number of crimes for which access to legal advice could be delayed . |
| 21 | The dreadful things that he forecasts will not happen . |
| 22 | But a better understanding of how it works could also shed light on other questions concerned with the development of sensory nerve cells . |
| 23 | Accordingly , he formulates a hypothetical set of computational constraints which he claims will both assess the degree of match between two views so as to choose the better one , and typically force a 3-D interpretation which is both unique and veridical . |
| 24 | An Egyptian scientist has developed a gel based on petroleum waste which he claims can dramatically improve the productivity of sandy soil . |
| 25 | Lloyd recommends that the British public at large should pop along to Junior Wimbledon and get their first look at a player he believes can finally end the seemingly interminable search for Britain 's first major male champion since the sepia days of Fred Perry . |
| 26 | Unemployment and the poverty it brings can never justify criminal behaviour but it does , very often , explain it and the Conservatives ' refusal to accept the fact undermines their entire approach to law and order . |
| 27 | Adjusting frontiers is historically enormously difficult , there may be two or three very clear cases in the Soviet Union when it came be done without much dispute by general agreement , but on the whole I reckon that observation of human rights is the way to approach this , and then of course the er growth of economic prosperity if it comes will actually help to ease these problems . |