Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adv] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly the average ferreter of today could make no impression worth mentioning in that type of situation . |
| 2 | It is always hoped that the point-to-pointers of today will become the National Hunt stars of tomorrow , but young horses will learn nothing if they are subjected to a bumping match every time they run . |
| 3 | Inward investment from abroad would follow . |
| 4 | This gives it a passing resemblance to a crab , with which it shares an inability to raise itself significantly above any flat surface on which it finds itself , giving the lie to that universally popular , but inaccurate , graffito , ‘ Please to stand upon the seat , the crabs in here can jump six feet ’ . |
| 5 | You should gather all your ideas on the same general point into the same section of the essay , so that the essay seems to move forward consistently rather than jump around ; you can test whether the essay does have this sort of organisation by working out an appropriate title for each section and paragraph ( even though in the final version of the essay your paragraphs at least will lose their titles ) . |
| 6 | Cadfael at least could breathe again . |
| 7 | First , a star with a mass of roughly will end its cycle of thermonuclear burning with an iron core which is massive enough to collapse under its own gravitational self-attraction . |
| 8 | Without the miniaturization that they bring , the powerful personal computer of today would have remained an impossibility . |
| 9 | The Northern Ireland Prison Service said that any visitors holding passes for today should contact their relevant prison on Monday to rearrange their visit . |
| 10 | I hope that he and his fellow enthusiasts of today will derive as much pleasure from looking back in 50 or 60 years ' time as I do from my battered old album . |
| 11 | However , illumination from above will produce good specimens , though it is slow-growing . |
| 12 | Some of the equipment in here must have cost a small fortune — it would be dreadful , would n't it , if there should happen to be an accident ? ’ |
| 13 | So Deans record is 2 goals in 13 games — im quite sure that Frank at least would have doubled that if he had gotten the chance . |
| 14 | Sewell at least must have benefited by the visits , and the varied material he brought home , including books as well as horseshoes , would surely have been put to use in the Veterinary College . |
| 15 | True , in a full-time legislature appearances at least would differ from its feeble predecessor . |
| 16 | Not only may viruses incorporate themselves into our DNA , but there is now a suggestion that some viruses at least may have arisen from bits of our own DNA which have escaped from our cells and become so modified as to be capable of independent existence . |
| 17 | After all , the sights about here can make one dizzy . ’ |
| 18 | It 's a compromise between the straight-ahead disco that guarantees a toehold in the charts — the retread of Never Can Say Goodbye is a rather cheap cash-in on the success of Do n't Leave Me This Way — and the more varied explorations where their hearts probably lie . |
| 19 | The airlines of today would find it difficult to compete with the luxury of meal service on Luft Hansa in 1928 . |
| 20 | The grandson of today may have been the beloved teacher of centuries ago . |
| 21 | Although tokens of affection or messages from afar will lift your spirits around the 8th , this is likely to be a month of strained relationships . |
| 22 | Most people who want to watch tapes from abroad must pay a video or photographic shop at least 25 pounds to transfer just half an hour 's viewing . |
| 23 | And the ability to open several applications at once can confuse the inexperienced . |
| 24 | Proceeds of a bingo session at Eastbourne School on Monday at 7.15pm will go towards school funds . |
| 25 | The stuff circulating in her veins by then must have been a cocktail in which blood was a fairly minor ingredient . |
| 26 | While the friend of today may become the foe of tomorrow and the friend of the day after that , there is another fundamental category opposition which lumps friends and foes together as " people like us " in contrast to strangers who are " people not like us " ; indeed they are not really people at all ! |
| 27 | ‘ If you 're not going to eat those milles feuilles , ’ said Mrs Harper , hovering reproachfully by the table , ‘ that gentleman over there would like them . ’ |
| 28 | For the next three months , these fifty orphans at least will have an insight into what Westerners regard as a normal childhood . |
| 29 | You would probably both benefit in the long term by coming to such a compromise as interests and contacts from outside can save you both from the trapped feeling that a dependent relationship can bring about . |
| 30 | This can be useful ; the only thing to bear in mind is that too many icons in here will increase the time taken for Windows to get going , so it 's best to keep Start Up for the real essentials . |